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Fossil footprints of Cal Prat Barrina

30 million years ago the current Serra de Castelltallat was a flat area with lakes, pools of water and a subtropical climate. Near where the Can Prat Barrina farmhouse is now, many animals went to water it. Among them, specimens of Entelodon magnum, a predecessor of today's wild boar, which left a good number of

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Castelltallat Astronomical Observatory

The Serra de Castelltallat is a protected natural area (PEIN), a place with low light pollution very suitable for observing the sky and stars. After serious forest fires in 1994 and 1998, it was decided to create this facility to encourage rural tourism in the area. Located on top of a hill where you can

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Parc de l’Agulla

Parc de l’Agulla is the largest park in Bages and the quintessential leisure place in the city of Manresa. Since 1974, its central lake has been storing the water that flows into the Séquia and has been used as a reserve for homes in Manresa, with a capacity of around 200 million liters. Surrounding the

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Resclosa dels Manresans

The Resclosa dels Manresans is the starting point of the medieval canal of the Séquia, where it captures the waters of the river Llobregat. It was originally made of wooden logs, but since the early twentieth century it is covered with concrete. However, the dam retains the semi-elliptical shape it had when it was built.

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Aiguamoll de la Bòbila

The Bòbila wetland is a natural area 500 m south of Santpedor, where there used to be a bòbila in which clay was extracted for the manufacture of tiles and bricks. During the 20th century, the land was reduced due to extraction and the reduced area was flooded with water from an aquifer. Currently, the

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