Ventalló Viewpoint
Viewpoint unit
Terraprims: Plana del Empordà: “Open straight to the see, its main features are the crops surrounded and protected by cypress fences, the small urban nucleuses with a belfry or disperse forest redoubts.”
General features of the viewpoint
This construction-like and east-oriented viewpoint offers great views over Sant Pere Pescador and the Aiguamolls Natural Park. There are also singular landscape elements such as the pine forests, the fruit trees and the olive trees as well as the cypress fences and farms.How to get there
Through the Bassa street there is an access to the Pedró area where the elevated water deposit is. The viewpoint is below it.Virtual Tour
Landscape’s interpretations
N: Naturist’s interpretation
P: Rural person’s interpretation
E: Economist’s interpretation
1
The Aiguamolls of the Empordà Natural Park
- N: The Aiguamolls of the Empordà Natural Park embraces very different environments that allow the presence of a great number of vegetal and faunistic species, especially of birds.
2
Vegetable Screens
- N: The vegetable screens and, specially the cypress fences, are singular and peculiar elements of the plain of the Empordà. Aimed at protecting the crops from the tramontana, these elements have transformed into identifying features of this landscape.
3
Archeological sites
- N: The plain of the Empordà has suffered a strong human interaction since old times as Rosas and Empúries archeological sites indicate.
4
Two landscape units
- N: The increasing occupation of the territory as a result of the urban development, linked to the tourism and the consequent lost of the natural and landscape values has marked the development of the landscape.