Introduction
El Pedrigolet is the name given to the scree slope with small rocks at the foot of the Cau del Duc cave which can be seen from here. The Cau del Duc was created by water filtering through the carbonate rocks of the mountain. This cave was used by prehistoric people in the Lower Palaeolithic (some 300,000 years ago), as a place to shelter. Excavations carried out here have found large quantities of utensils, stone tools and remains of the bones of the animals these people ate. Many of these remains are in Can Quintana, in the Mediterranean Cultural Centre of Torroella de Montgrí. At the Tartera del Pedrigolet, until a few years ago, there was a local tradition that on Saint Catherine’s day, many people would descend it by jumping. Unfortunately, this tradition has left the rocks ever lower and scarcer.