Pi d'en Xandri – Sant Medir Hermitage loop from Sant Cugat Coll Favà
Pi d'en Xandri – Sant Medir Hermitage loop from Sant Cugat Coll Favà
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Pi d'en Xandri – Sant Medir Hermitage loop from Sant Cugat Coll Favà
01:55
17.2km
290m
Running
Hard run. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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1.14 km
Monastery of Sant Cugat
Highlight • Religious Site
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3.04 km
Open Field in Parc de Collserola
Highlight • Natural
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3.26 km
Pi d'en Xandri
Highlight • Natural Monument
It is a stone pine (pinus pinea) and is located in the Torre Negra rural park. It has a considerable height -23 meters- and a trunk of 3.20 meters in diameter. Its crown is 21 meters wide and has a peculiar shape, like a parasol, with a wayward, half-naked branch. The Pi d'en Xandri lost part of its branches due to the snow that accumulated on Christmas night in the year 62, when a formidable snowfall covered Catalonia in white. In 1997 some vandals tried to saw it off and set it on fire. It was necessary to graft a piece of live trunk so that the sap could circulate again and it was held with the trunks that surround it today to facilitate its healing.
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7.02 km
Jané Spring – Sant Medir Fountain
Highlight • Natural Monument
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7.34 km
Chapel of Sant Medir
Highlight • Religious Site
Formerly called San Emeterio, the hermitage is of Romanesque origin, although due to the transformations it has undergone there are hardly any original traces left. It has a rectangular floor plan with a sacristy. Outside there is a bell tower with a belfry and the entrance door with a semicircular arch, where there is an engraved relief dated 1447 with the images of the Holy Trinity.3 In the year 962, the first documented reference to the hermitage as property of the monastery of San Cucufato and as one of the five parishes of the term. The monks of the monastery had it under their care until the year 1446.4
The popularization of the legend of Saint Medin made the hermitage a destination for pilgrims. In the year 1802 the first pilgrimage of San Medin was held,5 and from 1846 the pilgrims of the Barcelona town of Gracia were added. In July 1936 the hermitage was looted and burned.6
Inside there are some original sketches from the year 1948 of the mural paintings that the local artist Josep Grau-Garriga projected and that were never made.
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10.3 km
Sant Medir Hermitage
Highlight • Religious Site
Formerly called San Emeterio, the hermitage is of Romanesque origin, although due to the transformations it has undergone there are hardly any original traces left. It has a rectangular floor plan with a sacristy. Outside there is a bell tower and the entrance door.
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17.2 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
10.3 km
2.69 km
2.11 km
1.47 km
619 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
7.55 km
3.40 km
2.70 km
1.42 km
1.35 km
803 m
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Elevation
Highest point (320 m)
Lowest point (110 m)
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