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Can Palomeres

Can Palomeres crowns a wooded hillside on the coast of the Maresme, where the towns of Pineda de Mar and Malgrat de Mar meet. It is one of those quiet Catalan corners where three stories overlap: a ruined centuries-old farmhouse, the mouths of long-abandoned iron mines, and a protected bat habitat tucked into the hillside. For walkers and curious explorers it offers an atmospheric off-the-beaten-track stop rather than a polished monument. What gives the place its character is the contrast between the melancholy silhouette of an old masia and the industrial archaeology beside it—tunnels, a loading station and the ghost of a cableway that once swung iron ore out to ships anchored offshore, all now wrapped in forest and home to one of Catalonia's most biodiverse colonies of bats.