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Desert of Cardó

Rasquera, Ribera d'Ebre, Tarragona

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Desert of Cardó

Historical milestone · Rasquera, Ribera d'Ebre, Tarragona

Image of Rasquera, not of the place itself.

In 1606 the Discalced Carmelites founded in these mountains a desert, with a convent and some fifteen isolated hermitages for the retreat of the friars. The complex was abandoned in the nineteenth century and its spring afterwards fed a spa.

1606

Photo: jordi domènech (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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