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The tallest stone pines in Catalonia are in the small town of El Bedorc (or El Badorc), next to Piera, in the Anoia region, where I have captured this series of photographs for La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos.
There is another curiosity linked to this small town and that is that the toponym Bedorc is one of the very few pre-Roman names in the Anoia region.
It is not strange to find these majestic stone pines in this town, since El Bedorc is included in the European Network of Natural Areas (Natura 2000), belonging to the Anoia Valleys area, as a Site of Community Importance (SCI) and as a Special Protection Area for Birds (ZEPA).
The name “pine nut” comes from the fact that it produces large pine nuts, an increasingly coveted delicacy and widely used in Catalan cuisine and in baking, such as in pine nut panellets.
This tree is native to the Mediterranean region and in the Anoia region it finds a good habitat to develop, with great height.
The stone pine is an evergreen conifer that can exceed 50 meters in height, although the standard is between 12 and 20 meters are more typical.
