A safety line in the morning with the Pedraforca opposite, a mining train at midday and Berga from above at dusk.

The Pedraforca gets its name from its shape: two summits split by a saddle, like a stone pitchfork. To have it in front of you all morning you don't need to climb it. At Vallcebre, on the other side of the valley, the Roques de l'Empalomar have a 300-metre via ferrata that looks straight at it, and with a guide from Pedratour it is the way to step up from family ferratas to a real one. The rest of the day goes from the cliff to the mine and from the mine to the table.

The ferrata: grade D with a guide

The Roques de l'Empalomar via ferrata is part of the Espai Actiu Vallcebre, the council's adventure facilities at the Pla de la Barraca. Turisme del Berguedà rates it D, difficult: 300 metres long, 130 of ascent, about 25 minutes' approach and around an hour and a quarter on the rock, with vertical sections, a traverse and a bridge of about 12 metres. Pedratour runs it as a guided introductory ferrata, two to three hours in total and from age 12. It includes the guide, harness, energy absorber, helmet, insurance and photos. Ask when you book whether the Espai Actiu access pass is included in the price.

If it is your first time on a safety line, or you are with children, start with the Canalassa, the family ferrata in the same Vallcebre: 45 minutes to an hour and a quarter, from age 6 and €37.

Inside the mine

Half an hour from Vallcebre, in the Sant Corneli colony, the Cercs Mining Museum takes visitors on a mining train 450 metres into the Sant Romà mine; you walk out with a guide who explains how the coal was cut. There is also an exhibition on life in the colony, an audiovisual and the miner's house as it was in 1940. General admission, €11. At weekends it opens from 10:00 to 15:00 and it closes on Mondays that are not public holidays: that is why it goes before lunch.

Lunch and the afternoon in Berga

La Cabana is a former inn on the edge of Berga that the Badia brothers have run since 2003, with seasonal Berguedà cooking and a dining room with views. The autumn 2026 menu had mountain rice, venison wrapped in Iberian bacon or kid chops. It is open Wednesday to Sunday at midday, from 13:00 to 16:00.

Afterwards, the Queralt sanctuary, nine minutes by car above the town. From there, the Queralt viewpoints are an hour's walk to the Cova de la Troballa, two viewpoints and the chapel of Sant Joan, above Berga.