Through the Natural Parks

ENTREMIG NATURA: Through the Natural Parks Catalunya keeps its lungs just 30 minutes from Plaça Catalunya. This isn't a route of sea and wine. It's a route of forest, mist, and stone. Of linked natural parks. Of understanding why Barceloneses fled here when the city was plague and war.

The Journey

We leave Barcelona heading north, and within 40 km the asphalt already smells of pine. We enter the Parc del Montnegre i el Corredor. Vallgorguina welcomes you with tight curves between cork oaks and holm oaks. Here, the silence is only broken by your engine. This was land of bandits and charcoal burners. You can still feel it.

We venture deeper. The road twists and climbs. Welcome to Montseny, Biosphere Reserve. Everything changes: the air is colder, the light filters green. Kilometers of perfect curves through beech forests and century-old chestnuts. Mandatory stop at Pantà de Santa Fe. Black water reflecting Matagalls and Les Agudes. Up here, at 1,200 m, you understand why Montseny is a sacred mountain. We lunch with views of the reservoir. You breathe and cleanse yourself of the city. We descend the north face towards Sant Hilari Sacalm, capital of Les Guilleries. Water, forest, and legend. We leave the main road and enter Les Guilleries. This is no longer tourist territory. It's land of wolves and Serrallonga. Narrow asphalt tracks, ravines, infinite green. We descend to the Mines d'Osor. Antimony, iron, galleries that swallowed men. You stop the bike, turn off the engine, and hear the forest reclaiming its own. It's breathtaking. We ride south. The landscape opens up, becomes Mediterranean again. We arrive at Caldes de Malavella. Water boiling from the ground since the Romans ruled. We visit the Roman Baths, now a museum. We step on mosaics 2,000 years old. And next door, the modernist heritage: spas, indiano houses, water as luxury. From the mine to the spa in 20 km. That's Catalunya. We return to Barcelona through the interior, with the sun setting behind Montseny. This is Entremig Natura. One day, 280 km, 4 natural parks. You don't come to "ride curves". You come to cross four different worlds without leaving the province. You come to understand that between Barcelona and Girona there's a jungle, a magic mountain, a land of bandits, and water that heals. You do it on a motorcycle because only then can you read the change in temperature, smell, light. Curve by curve, with a historian guide, so every tree and every ruin has a name. Heritage in motion.

Entremig Natura. Forest, mist and water. Three linked natural parks just 30 minutes from Barcelona: Montnegre, Montseny, Guilleries, and the thermal waters of Caldes, why not?