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Font de la Girada – Rajadell Castle loop from Ca l'Iscle

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Castellfollit Del Boix

Font de la Girada – Rajadell Castle loop from Ca l'Iscle

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Font de la Girada – Rajadell Castle loop from Ca l'Iscle

02:42

33.6km

520m

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Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

Last updated: April 18, 2026

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12.8 km

Gorg Blau of the Riera de Rajadell

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Very cute after it rained

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14.8 km

Font de la Girada

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A carved fountain consisting of a semi-buried body framed by a large arch, which creates a small elliptical apse, at the midpoint of which is the fountain. The water falls, from a rectangular niche framed in another with a pointed arch, onto a circular sink with a base. On the side of the fountain there is a bench attached, running. The set is completed with a stone table in the center of the space. This is built with masonry and the ashlars are seen in its entire front part, and inside, up to half height, the curvilinear part of the chapel was plastered. There still remains, at the highest point of the arch, the part of a fastening element from which a chain hangs, and at an even higher point, crowning the set, there is a large piece of stone with the inscription "Girada 1923".

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The fountain is located in Monistrolet, in an artificial widening of the road and in a space formed from the fountain itself and small stone walls that follow the lateral profile of the work. It can be reached by the path that comes from Can Servitge passing through the deposits of Can Gallifa or Cisternes de Monistrolet (file 390) and the Font del Rector (file 391), crossing the Riera de Rajadell, or from Monistrolet, skirting Can Gallifa (file 98) along the path that surrounds it to the W., and passing through the Camp de la Girada, cross the Riera de Rajadell through a ford, and from there follow a path in a westerly direction. The fountain is located 700m. in a straight line to the SW of Can Gallifa.
The name of the Girada is due to the curve that the Riera de Rajadell makes in this sector.
Campaign masses have been celebrated at the site with the stone table as an altar.
You can see that the beautiful vault of this fountain is in the shape of an ellipse. This design, apart from having an artistic motif, also gives it a surprising acoustic property. If we look for the two foci of this ellipse and place a person in the area near each of them, they will hear the other person's voice clearly amplified and with an enveloping effect. From an area close to the focus, such as the beginning of the stone benches, we can also hear the effect.

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