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Hidden and close at the same time, many times you pass by the highway and we don’t even realize it, but in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we have stopped to contemplate it.
From this old Mèdol quarry the Romans took the stones to build their totemic monuments. And as an imperishable witness of the passage of time, that imposing 16-meter-high needle remains.
In this former large quarry, the most notable element is the Hoyo del Mèdol, where some 50,000 cubic meters of calcareous stone from the Miocene, golden in color and mostly fossiliferous (lumaquela), were extracted, with the exception of the most sandy parts, which have no fossils.
In some walls of the quarry you can still see the extraction system of the ashlars.
The quarry can be reached from the AP-7 motorway (southbound) through the Mèdol area or from the N-340 road: from the Móra roundabout, cross the motorway and then continue on foot for a few 5 minutes towards Tarragona.
