More time in the woods · Up to 4 hours · 5 walks
Up to Sant Marçal
Sant Marçal de Montseny
- Time
- 2 h 30 min to 3 h 30 min
- Distance
- 6.6 km
- Ascent
- 300 m approx.
Two and a half to three and a half hours, no car needed: you climb from the campsite up to Sant Marçal and come back down the same way. You leave the campsite by its other entrance and climb the concrete track of the Camí de Sant Marçal to Font Bona. Soon after, you cross the Coll de Sant Marçal, home to the Taula dels Tres Bisbes, and reach the Romanesque church of Sant Marçal, once a monastery. There you turn around. The way out is the climb, a little over three kilometers; the way back is almost all downhill. Two fountains, a stone table and a church almost a thousand years old in a little over six kilometers.
Along the way
The numbers match the map.
Nova Forest
Head out through the gate above the pool toward the campsite’s other entrance, about 200 m away.
Entrada del càmping
Leave the campsite by this entrance and turn left, uphill, onto the track to Sant Marçal.
Font Bona
A two-spout fountain set in a stone wall, at the top of the climb up the Sant Marçal track.
Taula dels Tres Bisbes
On the Coll de Sant Marçal, a stone table where, by tradition, three bishops met, each seated in his own diocese.
Sant Marçal de Montseny
The Romanesque church of Sant Marçal, from the 11th century, once a Benedictine monastery. The Font de Sant Marçal is beside it. Turn around here and go back the way you came.
The practical bit
- Water
- Font Bona, at 2.9 km. Beside the church, at 3.3 km, is the Font de Sant Marçal, which doesn’t always run.
- Surface
- Concrete track up to Font Bona, at 2.9 km; from there it is about 400 m to Sant Marçal. You come back the same way.
- Dogs
- On a leash. There is livestock loose, wildlife that nests on the ground and small children on the path.
- Parking
- Not needed. You walk out from the campsite.
These are the routes that start at the campsite. You walk them at your own risk: check the forecast before you set off, carry water, and there is no shame in turning back.
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