Camping L'Hostalet

Your first outing from the site should be the 10-minute walk down to the little village of Serrateix – it’s a tiny place but worth visiting to have a look around the ninth-century monastery. A 20-minute drive away is the village of Cardona, whose charter has been in place since the year 986. The Medieval Cardona Centre will tell you a bit of the history of the place, and you can also visit the hilltop castle. Just outside the village, take the underground and overground tour of the Salt Mountain Cultural Park to see both the salt mines and the natural shapes that have evolved in some of the caves. There are further castles to visit in Súria and Balsareny, both around 25 minutes’ drive away. If your kids liked meeting the animals on the farm, they can see more at the Centre d’Apropament a la Natura, 20 minutes away, where they can wave hi to horses, ponies, Vietnamese pigs, porcupines, birds of prey and emus. You can also get touchy-feely with some of the animals – play with guinea pigs, a salamander or a boa constrictor, depending on how brave you’re feeling or how much you want to impress/ horrify the kids.