Top 20 Natural Monuments around Sant Fruitós De Bages

Fountain built in 1683, which was one of the main meeting points of the village, where its inhabitants went to wash their clothes and fetch water until the 70s. The boys of the village came to this fountain, morning and afternoon , to look for water to see from the houses, and it was at this moment that battles were often fought between the boys from the upper part of town and those from the Raval. Where the fountain is now, there was the cattle trough, and next to it were the washrooms. We highlight the presence of a specimen of maple, a tree planted during a tree festival at the beginning of the 20th century. Next to the source, coming out of a crack we will observe the red falzia, a small fern and also some liverwort plants.

Space to relax and look towards Montserrat

Collbaix is a 543 meter peak, located in Sant Joan de Vilatorrada. It is the highest in the district of Manresa, to the west of Pla de Bages, which has an excellent observation point. It is listed as a large park by the Planning Plan of Manresa. The mountain is located between the streams of Rajadell and Fonollosa. The south side belongs to Manresa, the east to Sant Joan de Vilatorrada, where the town's expansion area is located. Rajadell has the area of Punta Sabata and Fonollosa with most of the summit, the west and the obac slope. Collbaix originated from the erosion of the surrounding land. A resistant layer of conglomerates protects the flat top from erosion, forming a plateau. The summit is made up of large blocks of stone separated from each other. At the top we can find a geodesic vertex (reference 280109001) A metal table with an engraved map of the region. This peak is included in the list of the 100 peaks of the FEEC.

Balma where a hostel and restaurant have been built with brutal charm

Mountain of saline and other waste created between 1945 and 1977. The La Botjosa salt dump measures 775 meters long by an average width of 150 meters, occupies 13.5 Ha and its content is estimated at around 4 million tons of salty waste. Since the start of the new Cogulló dump in 1977, the potash mining of Sallent and Balsareny stopped dumping saline waste in La Botjosa. Since then, a considerable portion of the saline residues dumped in the La Botjosa dump has disappeared by dissolution in rainwater and air humidity, as evidenced by the geomorphologies in lapiaz on the slopes and dame coiffée where an object acting as an umbrella has protected the salt below

Building located in the municipality of Mura (Bages) included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia. The walls of this farmhouse are headed and hung on the steep landings of a cliff, taking advantage of the natural cornices. The oldest part could be considered from the pre-Romanesque period, but additions have been made over the centuries. The house is quite irregular in every way: in height, width and depth

The Font de Talamanca was built in 1683 and remodeled in 1707. Until 1968 it was the place where the residents of the municipality went to get water for daily consumption and it had a communal laundry room that was used to wash clothes, which turned the fountain into one of the main meeting points in the municipality. It is a space surrounded by nature, next to the town and, right next to a centenary tree that has been declared a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. It is a negundo steel, an American species, which in the years it was planted, at the beginning of the 20th century, was very rare to find outside its original habitat.

The Puig de la Balma is a “Historical-Cultural Complex of Agrotourism”. This conglomerate of buildings (which has been growing since the original 12th century building completely built on the rock), has become an important testimony to Catalan rural life and to the different episodes in the country's history. Various chroniclers and documentary filmmakers have been interested in its heritage interest, as well as several filmmakers who have shot scenes from historical films such as "Bruc" or "Pa negre". There is a small museum with endless agricultural tools and household items and it seems that time has not passed. Visitors also have various lodging possibilities.