The Llaberia hills are a protected natural area marked by a rich and diverse landscape. This is a distinctive place where different species and habitats coexist, depending closely on one another and related to the human activities carried on there. The result of this interaction is evident in the abundance of species and the size of their habitats, whether natural, rural, agricultural or urban.

The Llaberia Viewpoint offers magnificent views of the characteristic patchwork of woods and farmland of the Baix Priorat (Lower Priorat), dominated by typical Mediterranean vegetation with holm and holly oak and pine woods and Mediterranean fields, as well as other identifying traits including vineyards, olive and almond groves and the traditional structures associated with them: drystone retaining walls and huts, and so on.

Serra de l'Espasa Iberian Settlement

You're here in a place that was inhabited in Iberian times (between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC). The settlement, from which no visible constructions remain, stood in the highest part of the Espasa hills, at the south-western end. Here the ground is less steep, gets the most sun and is most sheltered from the north wind, as well as being closer to the watercourse of the Riera de Capçanes. The site was identified in the 1920s, and subsequent archaeological work confirmed its existence.  

L’era del Foro

This viewpoint is beside a former era, the Catalan word for a threshing floor, named after its old owner, Telesforo.

A threshing floor is a piece of flat, firm ground on which cereals or pulses were threshed to separate the grain from the chaff.

After harvesting, the sheaves were carried to the era, and in July work began to prepare the barley and oats, and later on the wheat. Threshing work was done, with the aid of oxen or mules, until August.