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- Quarried since ancient times, the stone of Ulldecona has been used in the construction of important public works in Spain, such as the Pedrera in Barcelona, the Town Hall in Zaragoza and the airport of Madrid.
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Quarried since ancient times, the stone of Ulldecona has been used in the construction of important public works in Spain, such as the Pedrera in Barcelona, the Town Hall in Zaragoza and the airport of Madrid.
Ulldecona’s medieval castle, a Spanish Cultural Asset of National Interest, is the town’s quintessential distinguishing feature. Its strategic location meant it controlled the inland routes and marked the boundary between the Christian and Muslim kingdoms.
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Ulldecona is in the region of Montsiā, in southern Catalonia, in the middle of two large buttresses such as the Sierra del Montsiā east and west Serra de Godall. The municipality also has five more villages: El Barri Castell, Sant Joan del Pas, Els Valentins, La Miliana and Les Ventalles. GPS: 40 ° 35 '49.71 "N 0 ° 26' 49.61" E
By car
Highway:– AP-7(exit 42), 4 km from Ulldecona Local roads:– T-331Ulldecona – Les Ventalles – Tortosa (más la C-12) – T-332Ulldecona – Vinaròs (más la CS332 y la N-238) – TV-3319Ulldecona – Sant Juan del Pas – Barri Castell – La Sénia – TV-3318Ulldecona – Alcanar – TV-3322Barri Castell – Els Valentins. Local roads:– TV-3313 Ulldecona – Godall– TV-3314Ulldecona – La Miliana – La Galera (accessible by road from the Senia)
By train
Railway Barcelona - Valencia (RENFE), with the station in town.
By bus
Bus Line (HIFE) with stops at Catalonia, Sales y Ferré, and in the districts of Ulldecona.
Medieval castle
Ulldecona Medieval Castle is on a small hill called Puig del Castell which is part of the Serra Grossa. This set is on the left bank Senia, the current political-administrative boundary between Catalonia and Valencia. The wide visibility and the great fertility of the land and wealth have assumed that this place has been over time a strategic area of control of the territory from the Iberian era to the Middle Ages. Fortified ruins contain a small cylindrical tower, a main tower with a recta...
Olive trees
The olive trees are part Ulldecona Natural Heritage. On the family farm in the Puerta Ferré (Partida Del Arion) is to Serra de Godall, with about 200 of the 413 olive trees that are in the game. You can admire 35 copies of monumental olive trees and one of the two trees given monument by the Government of Catalonia we have in our town. All this living natural heritage, forms one of the most distinctive landscapes, historic and emblematic of our territory.
Paintings cove
The Ulldecona Paintings were declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998, along with other rock art shelters that make up the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula. This is a total of 14 shelters that make up the largest group of Levantine style rock art throughout Catalonia Thus, for the large number of figures retained (70% of total country Levantine figures) how, in the right been found these. The first discovery was made on March 31, 1975 the shelter's departure V Chapels. This...
L'Antic Moli, +34 977 570 893, +34 661 535 187 (In the barrels at Ctra El Castell Ulldecona - La Senia, km10), ✉ restaurantanticmoli@hotmail.com.Bon Lloc (In Antigua Ctra Vinaròs), ☏ +34 977 573 016, +34 977 720 209, ✉ hotelbonlloc@gmail.com.Cassador, Els Valentins in the Carrer Major, 50, ☏ +34 977 713 029, ✉ info@restaurantecazador.com.L'Era (Els Valentins in the Carrer Major, 2), ☏ +34 977 570 669, +34 977 687 594, ✉ 147contacte@restaurantlera.net.Cafe Fleca Feliu (Carrer Guifré).Catra (Carrer de Guifré).Celedoni (in the Carrer Major).La Cantina (Cami dels Terres).Alberg de l'Hermitage, Ctra Tortosa-Ulldecona Km 4, ☏ +34 653 937 204, ✉ ermita@ulldecona.cat.Hotel Bon Lloc, Antiga Ctra Vinaròs, ☏ +34 977 573 016, +34 977 720 209, ✉ hotelbonlloc@gmail.com.Hotel Cal Naudi, Finca de la Revertera, Serra Montsiā, ☏ +34 669 303 363, +34 669 303 353, ✉ calnaudi@calnaudi.com.Hotel Lloc d'Oom, Ctra Ulldecona-la Senia, Km 8 Urbanització Moli de l'Om Barri Castell, ☏ +34 977 573 224, +34 619 006 054, ✉ lesmoles@lesmoles.com.CAP Ulldecona, C. Montserrat Roig, 2-4 43550 Ulldecona, Teléfono: +34 977 72 13 22 / Fax: +34 977 57 32 98
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Ulldecona is a good choice for visitors who want to sense the real Catalonia, enjoy nature, visit other towns and interesting sites, yet only be a 15-minute drive to the beach. It has a pretty old quarter, a few gorgeous modernist buildings and the tourist office is a sight in itself!
Ulldecona, Alcanar and la Sénia were created in order to be a border; but the structure of Ulldecona seems to have been designed, from the beginning, to be larger and more organized.
Castell d'Ulldecona is a castle located in Ulldecona, in Montsià Region, in the South of Catalonia. It was built before 11th Century and it was very important in the fight between Catholic and Muslims Empires in the 11th Century, when this zone was a border between empires.
