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This Monday, in Gavà, in Baix Llobregat, we were able to contemplate a spectacular candlelight at sunset, leaving an explosion of color in the sky, with the presence of the Garraf massif as a witness. An autumn postcard that we can see in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos.
The candilazo is a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors that ranges from pink to the most intense orange.
As part of the phenomenon of dispersion of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closer to the horizon, the light that reaches the Earth is soft tones between red and orange.
The Garraf massif is located in the Catalan Coastal mountain range. It occupies a triangular area between the Llobregat valley, the Penedès depression and the Mediterranean.
It forms a group of low mountains. Orographically it goes from sea level to 593 meters from the top of La Morella. The Garraf massif loses height towards the west and disappears near Vendrell, where the coastal depression is limited by the sea.
The Garraf mountains are calcareous with many chasms and caves. And the palmetto is an endemic species in this area.
