L'Obrador de la Marida

Gualta is four streets on the flat between Torroella and Peratallada, and this is the reason to ride through it. It is a pastry shop first and a cycling stop second: a counter of croissants and individual cakes that would not look out of place in Girona, in a village most groups pass without braking.

Which makes it the easy stop of the collection: no climb to earn it, no altitude to suffer at. On a flat Empordà morning it turns the ride into an outing.