Turó de Montcada, Summit in Montcada i Reixac, Spain.

Turó de Montcada is a summit in the Catalan Coastal Range rising to about 273 meters above sea level. From the top, hikers enjoy views across the Vallès and Barcelonès plains and the surrounding highland terrain.

In 1917 the Asland cement company, now owned by Lafarge, opened a factory on the hill and quarried its slopes. Extraction lowered the summit from over 300 metres to 273 metres and, with a 1939 landslide, destroyed caves, an Iberian settlement, the Mare de Déu de Montcada chapel and the ruins of the Montcada family castle. Quarrying ended and in 2013 restoration of the pit was agreed with WWF Spain.

The hill gave its name to the Montcada family, whose castle ruins stood here until a 1939 landslide destroyed them, along with the hermitage of the Mare de Déu de Montcada. Montcada i Reixac became a pioneer of Catalan environmental campaigning through the mobilisations against the incinerator and in favour of saving the hill.

The summit lies within Montcada i Reixac, in the Vallès Occidental, and is listed among the FEEC's 100 Cims, so it is climbed as a designated peak. Quarrying ended and in 2013 restoration of the pit was proposed, with Lafarge signing agreements with WWF-Spain and the ACER association. Expect a landscape marked by the former Asland cement works rather than a forest path.

The quarry on the hill is known among mineral collectors for its phosphates, discovered in 1995 by members of the Grup Mineralògic Català. Between 1996 and 1999, thick veins of variscite yielded specimens that, once polished, were used in jewellery. In 2004 a pocket of copper minerals was found, with chrysocolla, libethenite, pseudomalachite, malachite and azurite.