Belltall – Holiday apartment between dry-stone paths and village history

In Belltall, evidence of the village’s history meets a landscape shaped by dry farming and small wooded areas. Architectural forms, paths and religious sites provide several different themes for planning your trip.

When comparing holiday apartments in Belltall, travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions can serve as clear points of comparison in the respective listing. Which of these details you give greater weight to can be linked to your interests in culture, paths, landscape or the garlic tradition. The accommodation therefore remains a separate planning step alongside considering the village itself.

Culture and history

Today’s Sant Pere de Belltall church was built using materials reused from a nearby Romanesque church of Sant Pere that has since disappeared; its bell tower is octagonal.

Only the foundations, the first courses of masonry of a side wall and the apse remain of the former Sant Pere de Belltall church. The Belltall boundary cross probably dates from the 16th or 17th century and is designed in the Gothic-Renaissance style. The old Belltall cemetery includes disc-shaped grave stelae.

Carrer Major runs beneath an old village house through a vaulted passageway. The washhouses are among the village’s local sights. The Font de Baix is also one of Belltall’s local sights.

For your personal planning, you can consider the ecclesiastical buildings, the cemetery, the vaulted passageway and the washhouses as separate points of interest.

Landscape and paths

There are dry-stone huts in the landscape around Belltall; they are associated with agricultural work. The long-distance hiking trail La Ruta del Cister GR 175 passes through Belltall. The dry-stone path leads through a landscape shaped by dry farming and small wooded areas, with older dry-stone walls. Some of these walls have steps.

The focuses on paths, landscape and village history can be weighted separately in your planning, without combining them into a single excursion theme.

Garlic and local tradition

All de Belltall is a smaller garlic variety with a rounded, white bulb that is flattened at the bottom and forms two smaller bulbs in the middle. Garlic has been traditionally cultivated in Belltall for 300 years.

The Centre d’Interpretació de l’All de Belltall is located in the former abbey of Belltall and provides information about the cultivation and harvesting of the garlic produced there.

Events

For Saturday, the programme lists a solemn mass in honour of Sant Pere, the patron saint of Belltall. For Sunday, the programme includes a mass for Sant Roc and a traditional festive vermouth. The Festa de l’All de Belltall is scheduled for the first Saturday of a month.

If you would like to take the stated days into account when planning your time, the events can be read separately by Saturday, Sunday and the first Saturday of a month.

Other places

Other places in this selection are Calafell, Sant Jaume Dels Domenys, El Rourell, L'ametlla De Mar, Prat De Comte, Vilanova D'escornalbou, Capafonts and Godall.

For the higher-level travel overview: Tarragona.