topics
geology and paleontology
- The strata, a key to discover the evolution of the geography through time: seas, rivers and deltas, beaches, marshes, deserts, alluvial fans…
- The structures, a key to understand the formation of mountains: anticlines, synclines, faults, thrusts…
- 200 million years before present (my), the mysterious Triassic time
- A tropical sea with coral and rudist reefs at Cretaceous time (80 my)
- A land of dinosaurs: egg, bone and footprint sites (some of them discovered by the guide)
- The formation of the Pyrenees: mountain uplift and strong alluvial erosion (20 my)
archaeology
- The Neanderthal man: camps and caves (200,000 to 30,000 years before present)
- Megalithic tombs from the Neolithic time
- The Iberian civilization
- The Roman period: under a new cultural world
- Fortified settlements and rock-carved necropolis from Visigoth time
- Frontier castles and watch towers of the Hispanic March: the border between the Christian and Muslim worlds
history
- The birth of a nation (X c); feudalism, Templers, Cathars…
- Civil War (XV c): war with the Ferdinand king and the dream of a Pyrenean state
- The first European-scale conflict: a war for the Spanish Succession (XVIII c)
- The hydroelectric adventure (beginning of XX c): the Barcelona Traction Co and the competition to supply power to Barcelona
- The Spanish Civil War (1936-39): the silent testimonial of bunkers, the life in the trenches, the International Brigades
- The Maquis, the Route of Freedom
general culture
- Coexistence of Mediterranean and Atlantic flora
- Fauna: vultures, eagles, deer…
- The Catalan Romanesque art: churches, monasteries, paintings…
- Medieval iron mines and the Catalan forge
- Ancient hydraulic mills
- The loggers (raiers)
