More than just a home.

Plana Novella is more than just a residential neighborhood.  It is a place to relax and enjoy a fine country meal, a place to begin your exploration of the park, a place to meditate with Buddhists. 

El Parador Restaurant

relaxed country dining

Everything from a quick coffee and pastry with a friend to a long leisurely lunch or dinner, El Parador offers a wide selection of dishes to please everyone.  English-speaking owner with years of restaurant experience.

Buddhist Monastery

Welcoming visitors of all faiths

Sakya Tashi Ling is a monastery belonging to one of four buddhist schools from Tibet, the Sakyapa tradition. It's an ancient order that follow the spiritual leader His Holiness Sakya Trizin, a king from ancient Tibet. The monastery is ruled by Venerable Lama Jamyang Tashi Dorje.
Ten years after its foundation, in July, 1996, the community moved into the Plana Novella palace, deep inside the Garraf Natural Park, 30 minutes away from Barcelona, becoming the first buddhist monastery in Catalonia.

Garraf Natural Park

Surround yourself with nature, steps from your front door

Garraf Park covers an area of 12,820 hectares of limestone hills, which in contact with water and air, have eroded over time to form caves, potholes, sinkholes and limestone pavements. The landscape is mostly Mediterranean scrubland, featuring the vegetation typical of the area: dense thickets of low rise shrubs and herbs such as rosemary and thyme. There are some wooded areas with Aleppo pine trees and holm oaks. Other trees include wild olive, fig and arbutus. The margalló deserves a special mention. It is a Mediterranean fan palm, which is the most characteristic plant of the area and a protected species. In the valley bottoms the vegetation is more typical of evergreen oak woodland and features evergreen oaks, madder, boxwood, lentiscus honeysuckle and viburnum.
Wildlife is limited and adapted to the hot climate, lack of water, sparse vegetation and abrupt terrain and includes wild boar, rabbits, Mediterranean tortoises, quails, Bonelli's eagles, falcons and other birds of prey.

Olivella

our village, founded in 992

Over a thousand years ago, settlers made Olivella their home.  Small and beautiful, the restored center includes a castle and church, along with a rural restaurant serving local dishes throughout the year.  Our old town is located 10 km from our homes and is worth a visit on the way to Sitges and the beaches to the south.