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L'Espluga De Francolí

Prades Historic Center – Main Square of Prades loop from l'Espluga de Francolí

L'Espluga De Francolí

Prades Historic Center – Main Square of Prades loop from l'Espluga de Francolí

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Prades Historic Center – Main Square of Prades loop from l'Espluga de Francolí

02:48

53.9km

890m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 21, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 23.7 km for 143 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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608 m

Coves de l'Espluga

Highlight • Cave

The caves of l'Espluga de Francolí are a set of natural cavities formed in the conglomerate rock. Speleological explorations began in 1956, and so far 3,600 meters of galleries have been explored, making them one of the longest caves in the world.

The archaeological findings inside show that they have been occupied since the Paleolithic: the last discovery, in 2019, was a Paleolithic sanctuary made up of more than 300 engravings, some of them more than 36,000 years old. The visits are guided and can be booked from covesdelespluga.info

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1.37 km

L'Espluga de Francolí

Highlight • Settlement

Municipality of the province of Tarragona, in the region of Conca de Barberà. The origin of the town is in the castle that Ponç de Cervera built on top of a nearby mountain in the 11th century. In the middle of the 13th century, the castle became dependent on the monastery of Poblet and the Templars, and in the lower part the encomienda of the Espluga de Francolí was established, under the jurisdiction of the hospital order. In the year 1312, the year of the extinction of the Order of the Temple, the Espluga de Francolí acquires the full señorío.

Among the cultural heritage stands out the old hospital of the Order of San Juan, which currently houses the Mosén Ramón Muntanyola library, the Museo de la Vida Rural, the modernist cooperative winery Celler Cooperatiu, the work of Pere Domènech i Roura, or the Fassina Balanyà, former alcohol factory, today converted into one of the twenty-five industrial museums of the System of the National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia.

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4.08 km

Royal Monastery of Santa María de Poblet

Highlight • Religious Site

Monastery founded in 1150, when the church, the monks' refectory, the Sant Esteve chapel, the infirmary and part of the cloister were built. During the 13th century, the rest of the buildings in the complex were completed, with everything the monks needed for their lives here: chapter house, bedroom, cloister, kitchen, the scriptorium, the hospital for the poor and pilgrims, and the chapel of Santa Caterina. In later centuries the dome and the walls, the pantheon and the other royal constructions were added.

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4.15 km

Poblet Monastery

Highlight • Religious Site

17.8 km

Coll de les Masies

Mountain Pass

19.4 km

Coll de la Mola (1010 m)

Highlight • Mountain Pass

Coll de la Mola at 1010 meters above sea level. In this pass, the roads that go up from Vilanova de Prades from Vimbodí/Poblet/Montblanc towards Prades connect

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23.7 km

Prades Historic Center

Highlight • Historical Site

Also known as Vila Roja because of the reddish material that was used in the construction of the buildings. It is worth parking your bike and strolling through its alleys.

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23.8 km

Main Square of Prades

Highlight • Settlement

I would go back anytime again

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27.2 km

Coll de Capafons

Mountain Pass

53.5 km

Font Baixa

Highlight • Monument

There is news of this fountain as early as 1151, but in its current form it dates from 1852, although the original project was never completed. The stone used in its construction came from an old obelisk that was in the wall of the old road from Poblet to Vimbodí. The number of pipes was also increased from the current 11 to 17 (one pipe for each letter of the town where it is located). Originally the pipes were made of bronze, but they were stolen in 1954 and replaced by iron ones.

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53.9 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

53.1 km

314 m

169 m

145 m

116 m

Surfaces

53.2 km

377 m

153 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (1,030 m)

Lowest point (410 m)

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Prades Historic Center – Main Square of Prades loop from l'Espluga de Francolí

Coves de l'Espluga

L'Espluga de Francolí

Royal Monastery of Santa María de Poblet

Poblet Monastery

Coll de la Mola (1010 m)

Prades Historic Center

Main Square of Prades

Font Baixa

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