Volta a la Maria La nocturna
Sat 14 Nov 2026 · Avià, Barcelona
a three-format day — a village night 5 km, a mountain 18 km over the "Tres Maries," and a 1 km vertical up one of them · Our read
26.5Moderate26.5 km-effort · 47 m/km climb
EasyModHardV.hardExtremeBrutal
Endurance load on ITRA's km-effort scale — not steepness or technical terrain.
How we measure
km-effort = distance + climb/100, ITRA's published scale: every 100 m of climb counts like ~1 km of distance. Six levels, Easy → Brutal, from the hardest distance of the event. The climb figure (m/km) shows how vertical the course is.Drive
MID 1h 18m
from Barcelona (Glòries, est.)
When
Sat 14 Nov 2026
Distances
2 · 5 · 18 km
Official site & registration ↗
Ask anything the page doesn't show — “can I walk it?”, “good first trail race?”
Dates, start times and registration change — always confirm on the official site.
Distances
18 km · ↑850 m · Moderate · Volta a la Maria
5 km · ↑80 m · Easy
2 km · ↑300 m · Easy · Volta a la Maria vertical
| Distance | Climb | Effort |
|---|---|---|
| 18 km ↳ Volta a la Maria | ↑850 m | 26.5 Moderate |
| 5 km | ↑80 m | 5.8 Easy |
| 2 km ↳ Volta a la Maria vertical | ↑300 m | 5 Easy |
Our take
The catch · Our read
no D+ published anywhere, so effort is unknowable pre-race; the 1 km "Amunt Maria" up a "baixada" (a descent run uphill) will be brutally steep
Who it's for · Our read
locals and variety-seekers; families (Mini Volta). Data-driven planners will find the page thin
Also nice · Our read
the nocturna through the old village core; a compact festival-of-formats race
Character
- Setting
- Berguedà village + the "Tres Maries" hills above Avià · Organizer
- Course
- Nocturna runs "per l'interior del poble"; Clàssica "per les muntanyes del poble passant per cada una de les conegudes Tres Maries"; Amunt Maria "Vertical per la clàssica baixada de la primera Maria." · Organizer
- Night race
- partially — the 5 km "Nocturna" is a night race ("nocturna per tal de descobrir els llocs més emblemàtics") · Organizer
- Season & heat
- mid-Nov Berguedà foothills (~600 m) — cold, especially the night 5 km; no heat concern · Derived
Labels show how we know each thing: Organizer (from the race’s own site) · Derived · Our read · Our guess · Dima (ran it).
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