Mont-roig del Camp
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Mont-roig del Camp is a town and municipality in the comarca
Comarques of Catalonia
This is a list of the comarques of Catalonia . A comarca is roughly equivalent to a US "county" or a UK "district". However, in the context of Catalonia, the term "county" can be a bit misleading, because in medieval Catalonia, the most important rulers were counts, notably the Counts of Barcelona...

 of Baix Camp
Baix Camp
Baix Camp is a comarca of Catalonia in northeastern Spain. It is one of the three comarques into which Camp de Tarragona was divided in the comarcal division of 1936....

, Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

, Spain. It is in the middle of its comarca, between the Serra de Colldejou and the Mediterranean. It includes two populated places: the historic town of Mont-roig del Camp in the interior, whose economy revolves round the cultivation of nuts and olives, and the beach resort of Miami Platja
Miami Platja
Miami Platja is a coastal resort about 30 km south of Tarragona, in Catalonia, north-east Spain. It forms part of the municipality of Mont-roig del Camp, some 20 km away, although it is contiguous with the town of L'Hospitalet de l'Infant, just the other side of the river Llastres...

 on the coast, the Costa Daurada.
The municipality has a long coastline, with campsites and a few hotels, informally distributed over the districts of Pins de Miramar and Miami Platja
Miami Platja
Miami Platja is a coastal resort about 30 km south of Tarragona, in Catalonia, north-east Spain. It forms part of the municipality of Mont-roig del Camp, some 20 km away, although it is contiguous with the town of L'Hospitalet de l'Infant, just the other side of the river Llastres...

, as well as round the Platja de Rifà (Rifà beach), close to the district of Les Pobles.

Notable buildings include the "new" parish church, that of Sant Miquel, built in Gothic and Renaissance style between 1574 and 1610.

High above the town on a very eroded outcrop of rock stands the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rock with the Sant Ramon chapel. The painter Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...

spent long periods at the family property of Mas d'en Miró, in the Les Pobles district, from 1911 onwards.

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