La Maglia Coffee

This one is inside something else. La Maglia Coffee sits in the Velòdrom bike shop on the Pujada de Sant Domènec, which occupies an old theatre in the upper part of the old town: high ceilings, a serious conversion, bikes and kit around the tables. You order a coffee surrounded by people buying wheels.

That makes it the stop for the rest day rather than the ride: the kind of place where a group ends up after a mechanic appointment, or where you wait while something is being fitted. Four point six across a hundred and thirty-odd reviews, and ciclismo is the word that comes up most in them.

Note the clock: it does not open until nine, and that is the one thing that keeps it off an early start. There is a second La Maglia on the coast at Platja d’Aro, which does open early, same name, different town.