Parc Garrell

We had a very peaceful nights sleep, which I was surprised about and didn’t wake up until 7am when one of the houses nearby let there dog out to start barking.
After coffee and putting the bed stuff away we headed 10 minutes down the road to a parking spot where we started our 1 1/2 mile hike to our first location of the day.
Parc Garell is actually a very large site in some woods next to quite a busy road at the edge of the town of Argelaguer. It was owned many years ago by an artist who worked the woods to form massive sculptures made from wood and waste materials and he is now entombed halfway down the site.
Our first stop was called Cabanes d'Argelaguer or in English the Cabins of Argelaguer. It was a huge, weird sculpture that you could walk on or through made from wood, concrete various old tools that sloped down an embankment running from storm drains. When it rains hard the water flows all around the moulded concrete sculptures.
We carried on walking and our second stop was Cova tomba monumental Garrell or the tomb of Garrell.
At this tomb we found fresh flowers at the entrance and if your thin, as I now am you can squeeze into the tunnels of the tomb which go back around 20 meters. It is pitch black inside with what look like Mayan carvings of heads all across the walls. It was fascinating.
We carried on walking and our last stop was Garrells actual house that he used to live in, in the woods with a vegetable plot and even a lookout tower. It was a fascinating place to walk around and we did have to wonder if Garrell was actually in his right mind.
After 90 minutes it was time to leave and head just 4 miles down the road.Read more