Camping Font Freda

This mountainous area is in splendid setting for trekking, whether your tastes are for following the local paths or striking out on your own for forest, mountain and foraging walks. If you're foraging, local town Berga is a famed centre for Catalonia's plump red pine mushrooms, so look out for them on the forest floor while on your eagle-eyed travels. The restaurants in and around the town should have many a local mushroom dish available in autumn if you'd prefer to have your fungi served safely to your table. The Camping Font Freda team can steer you towards local rock climbing, quad biking, paragliding and mountain biking for more adrenalised days, or to the local equestrian centre for mountain and forest hacks. Watersports and serene surrounds are at La Baells reservoir, less than 20 minutes away. Spectacular scenery of the surrounding mountains, villages and valleys are all around from the shrine of Queralt, a highly scenic spot nicknamed Catalonia's balcony for the splendour of its views. Hike up to it (with camera) from Berga, or take the short drive up and wander the nearby paths from here. Short tracks and long-distance trails start from the shrine, such as the Camí dels Bons Homes or Way of Good Men, running scenically for a couple of hundred kilometres from here to the Château de Montségur, over the border in south-west France.