The best walks and hikes around La Selva Del Camp

A nice trail that also allows us to learn a bit of history about how water was brought to La Selva del Camp in the past.

Good ramps with good pavement. It climbs well and is worth it.

The so-called Pont Alt is the most visible work of the Rec that leads the water to the town of Selva del Camp. It is a slender stone construction bound with mortar with a carpanel arch, which was built to pass the water from one side to the other while saving the bed of the stream. It measures 12.70 m high and 57 m long. Traditionally known as the bridge of the Moors. We cannot specify the date of its construction, but we can affirm its existence in the 13th century, since it is cited in a document from the year 1209 as a pont superior (pont major). On one of the walls is a plaque commemorating its restoration in 1567. In front of the Resclosa (then it was not yet built), there was a mill, where the water that came out, after having done the service, could not return to the town irrigation system and was lost in the Riera. It is for this reason that the millers, helped by the jurors of the town, built the bridge, a little below the mill, where even today we can see the foundations of the living rock on each side.

The Selva Castle was for centuries the stately residence of the prefects of Tarragona and the archbishops of the metropolis. It belonged to the Papordia of the archbishop of Tarragona, and was probably built at the end of the 12th century. It was a residence very frequented by the paborde, but it mainly served as a storehouse for nuts and tithes. In 1411 Pope Benedict XIII decreed the abolition of the pabordia and the Castle was administered directly by the Archbishop of Tarragona and in the s. In the 16th century, the building was expanded with residential buildings and an upper floor accessed by a staircase. The action of the Constituent Courts during the Biennium of 1822 ended, in fact, with the lordships. This work was complemented by the confiscation laws of the middle of the 19th century, and thus the Selva Castle would become the property or usufruct of the Town Council. Passing through various users after the ecclesiastical confiscation, the Castle, the town's largest heritage building had become a ruin that the Selvatans have lived with for decades. Finally, in a municipal economic boom, the City Council, entering the new millennium, decided to carry out an ambitious project such as that of restoring the monument and giving it a function of public use in accordance with its identity , a first-rate cultural facility.

The hermitage of Sant Pere has been redone on several occasions due to its poor state of preservation. The original hermitage dates from the middle of the 13th century, it was of Romanesque style and of larger dimensions. In addition, it was accompanied by an annexed house where the hermits and the donated lived, who were responsible for the maintenance of the cult and the lands attached to the hermitage. One of the most important reforms was that of 1588, under the supervision of Pere Blai (1553-1620) and which, according to some authors, would follow the Renaissance traces typical of the time. Finally, the last intervention took place throughout the 19th century and ended in the 1870s. The privileged position of the hermitage as a viewpoint of the Camp and first bastion of the mountains of the Sierra de la Mussara has been a determining factor for some military campaigns. During the French War (1808-1814), the Napoleons occupied the hermitage and adapted it to wartime needs. They had loopholes and parapets built there in order to defend themselves from attacks. However, the French were not the only ones to occupy the chapel militarily. During the First Carline War (1833-1840), clashes continued to occur between the supporters of Isabel II (1830-1904) and Charles V (1788-1855)

El Puig d'en Cama is a hill located in the Selva del Camp area, the entire summit is above Almoster, Baix Camp region, approximately north of Reus, Castellvell del Camp and Almoster, west of the Selva del Camp and east of Aleixar. It is part of the first stirrups of the Prades mountains. It is 717 meters high. At the top we can find a geodesic vertex (reference 263134001). This peak is included in the Challenge of 100 peaks of the Federation of Excursionist Organizations of Catalonia. Until recently there was a watchtower, now gone.

Impressive path that passes through this rocky area full of holes and steep paths with beautiful views from the Cingles de la Mussara.

Beautiful bridge that is at the foot of the same Riera de la Selva where, in order to save it, a set of bridges and walkways appear, as in this case the Pont Alt.