Cova de Punta Ferrosa

Large mouth 16 x 6 metres, four of which are below sea level. At air level the width narrows until it closes, but below the water a wide conduit can be glimpsed. A rock platform on the NW side facilitates the visit.

Toponymic notes: In some social science classes, in Sitges, a fairly complete list of the toponymy of the Garraf coast was made, citing, near Punta Ferrosa, the la Cova d'en Suetes (Cova d'en Suetes). We believe that it is very probably the same cavity.

The official toponymy names the point where the cave is located as la Ferrosa or Punta Ferrosa, from which it derives that it must be a place -and it really is- of dark rock, with a rusty appearance that would justify the name. Despite this, there are Sitges scholars who point to other possibilities. Ignasi M. Muntaner, of the Grup d'Estudis Sitgetans, in his work La toponímia de Sitges, entre la semàntica i les anècdotes tells us that the correct name could be farrosa, derived from fragosa (abrupt place, difficult to pass). Much earlier, another Sitges native, Llopis, in his "Assaig Històrich sobre la Vila de Sitges" (1891) says that its origin is from promontorium ferox (fierce, for being the highest and most protruding point of the coast).