A VISIT TO "COMA-RUGA"

This Holy Week I decided to go to "Coma-ruga",and although the weather was cloudy, I enjoyed very much finding out things of this village and walking along its beach.

"Coma-ruga" is a village of the "Costa Dorada" that belongs to the town council of "El Vendrell". And it has a nice beach of seven kilometres that is one of the favourite destinations of the Spanish families when the summer comes.

Other tourist villages as the Vendrell and Calafell are close to it. To 20 kilometres we find Tarragona.

The immense beach of "Coma-ruga" has on its coast "La Reserva Marina de Masía Blanca", which is characterized by his calmness, the transparency and good temperature of the sea, and by the high percentage of iodine that contain its waters, that are specially healthy.

In fact, in the nineteenth century it was discovered that the water that gushes of the "Estany Termal" of "Coma-ruga" has medicinal properties. And there was contructed a luxurious spa, which meant the beginning of the urban development of the nucleus of "Coma-ruga".

Nowadays, the water of the "Estany Termal" goes up to an ornamental exterior source, after that it goes on to the "Estany" and goes up to the "Riuet de Coma-ruga", which ends in the beach. It is habitual to see persons of all the ages taking baths in the "Riuet".

The name of "Coma-ruga" comes from the calcareous rocks of which is gushing the water of the "Estany termal", because the rocks makes up a small depression of the land, called "coma".

Other places that you can visit if you go to "Coma-ruga" are the house museum where the brilliant musician Pau Casals was born, the house museum "Ángel Guimera", the Archaeological Museum, the "Arco de Bará"...

To have just known the area, I recommend its typical meals like the "xató" (a salad), the "coca enramada", and typical desserts as the "bufats". And, as not, the wine of the region of "El Penedés".

Marisol