Cova de les Escales de la Gloria

The cave is located in the Glorieta river valley, between Mont-ral and Alcover. It can be reached from the designated car park (paid in summer and at weekends) located after the ermita del Remei in Alcover, where the walk is a little more than 4 kilometres, or better from Mont-ral, from where one parks to go to the Glorieta river gorges, with an approximate route of 1.5 kilometres. You must go down the path that leads to Alcover; after passing the Mirador de les Fonts del Glorieta you pass beside the old reservoir of the power station and, after a leisure area, we turn right at a point where there is a wide terrace crossed by a path. On the right side of this there is a small travertine cliff with several openings that do not continue; you must follow the path to the end, almost touching the cliff over the Glorieta river. On the left a fallen block can be seen forming a small hole, and on the right there is a terrace on a higher level where the entrance of the cova de la Calavera is found. From the left side of the entrance one climbs with the help of a tree up a kind of channel; two metres higher one passes over the entrance of the pit of the cova Calavera and, a few metres further on to the left, one reaches the cova de les Escales de la Gloria. If from the point where the slab that forms the hole is located one goes a few metres in the direction of the Glorieta river, on looking up one sees the entrance of the cova penjada hanging on the cliff.