Balmes Roges

Interesting and well-preserved rock shelter at the Balmes Roges, with a group of wine vats built using the rock shelter as roof and wall.

Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort, El • Bages 10m 2m

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Balmes Roges

Interesting and well-preserved rock shelter at the Balmes Roges, with a group of wine vats built using the rock shelter as roof and wall.

Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort, El · Bages

Length: 10 m · Depth: 2 m

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Topographic map of the main entrance — Main entrance · ICGC topographic map

Interesting and well-preserved rock shelter at the Balmes Roges, with a group of wine vats built using the rock shelter as roof and wall.

Characteristics

Type: Cave
Municipality: Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort, El
Region: Bages
Unit: Obac, Serra de l'
Length: 10 meters
Depth: 2 meters
Major Unit: Serralada Prelitoral
Lithology: Conglomerate
Updated on EspeleoÍndex: February 27, 2024

Location

Starting from the Pont de Vilomara and heading towards Rocafort, 150 m from the beginning of the BV-1224 road we will take the Camí de la Casa Nova, which runs alongside the riera de Santa Magdalena and the riera de la Casa Nova until reaching the Casa Nova de Sant Jaume. At this point we will leave the main track to take a track that passes through the middle of the farmhouse until reaching the stream. We will cross it and continue uphill along the track that runs alongside the stream, passing by the tines de la Lluca and les Rates-pinyades. Skirting the Torrent Mal and the Torrent de les Arcades we will reach the Racó dels Manresans. We will follow the track until reaching a fork where we will continue uphill along the left-hand track for about 140 metres; at this point we will leave the track and follow the path on the right which in a little more than a hundred metres will lead us to the group of tines de les Balmes Roges.

Entrances

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Roges, Balmes
Elevation: 479 m
41.693037, 1.916526
UTM 31T (ETRS89) 409838 4616262
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Topographic

Balmes Roges - Topography, Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort, El, Bages

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Description

Morphology

The rock shelter is about 40 metres wide in total, while the walled part is 24 metres wide and 10 metres at its deepest part; the height is a little more than 3 metres.

Other details

This group of wine vats is built using the rock shelter as roof and as wall. It is a group made up of two sets of vats 42 m apart. The first group is located on the western side in a small rock shelter. The second group of vats is located on the eastern side of the rock shelter, made up of a vat and a hut located inside an auxiliary building that uses the rock shelter for enclosure in its deepest part.

History

Known since time immemorial and used in the 18th and 19th centuries with the construction of the vats.

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Bibliography

Ballbé i Boada, Miquel (1993).- “Tines al mig de les vinyes a la comarca del Bages”. Quaderns del Centre d'Estudis del Bages, núm. 6.
AA. VV. (2005).-“Tines a les Valls del Montcau. Parc Natural de Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac”. Consorci de les Valls del Montcau. Col. Llibres de la Muntanya, 11. Farell Editors, Sant Vicenç de Castellet.

Cortés Elía, María del Agua (2017).- Inventari de les tines de les Valls del Montcau. Pla Director de les tines a peu de Vinya. Diputació de Barcelona, Ajuntaments de El Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort, Talamanca i Mura.
Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura. Generalitat de Catalunya.
Dades, topografia i fotografies facilitades per Francesc Rubinat (ERE del CEC).febrer 2024.