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ITINERÀNNIA, NETWORK OF TRAILS “Itinerànnia” is a network of trails, with over 2500 kilometres between the neighbouring regions of “Ripollès”, “Garrotxa” and “Alt Empordà”. A network of hiking trails is like a road map, but with footpaths, allowing the hiker to get from any one point to another. It retrieves the old historic roads between the villages to reach many small places.
02 SANT JAUME DE LLIERCA
Garrotxa
The network offers many different hikes depending on the time or difficulty and you interest over nature, architecture or culture. Each route that we propose is just a little taste of an extensive network of trails that you can walk to discover the Ripollès, Garrotxa and Alt Empordà counties.
THE SIGNS all the trails of the network are marked regularly over the paths with horizontal painted yellow signs.
PATH’S MARKS (3X10cm)
TURN LEFT / RIGHT
WRONG PATH
+INFO: www.itinerannia.net www.turismegarrotxa.com
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The marks are placed approximately every 300 metres painted on tree trunks, stones or using and other mediums already deployed in the area. The vertical signs is located at crossroads. The basic network signalling (banners with red tip) indicate the 4 nearest population in each direction and time needed. The banners of the itineraries of the municipalities, as the one you have in your hands, have a green tip shows the name and direction of the route. Each signpost has a small plaque hat shows the name of the place where it is located, the altitude, the UTM coordinates.
You will find information boards with a map of the county’s trails in every village or city integrating the network.
ROUTE TO MONTAGUT
Ajuntament de Sant Jaume de Llierca www.santjaumedellierca.cat
2h
7,8kms
ROUTE TO MONTAGUT
Start at signpost G51 Sant Jaume de Llierca and head down the street to signpost G45. Turn left to pass in a few minutes underneath the A-26 dual carriageway. Once on the other side, turn right and walk past an area of allotments to the river Llierca, where you should turn left. Follow the metalled road and the yellow Itinerànnia waymarking. Cross a gully, El Torrent de Castellar, and then after a few metres begin to climb. Pass in front of a large farmhouse, Mas Castellar, with the fields of El Pla de Castellar on the right. Continue along the road, up another climb that takes you past another farmhouse, Mas l’Aulina, and soon you will see the village of Montagut ahead. Pass the cemetery on your right and then come to the first houses in the village. Pass through the village to reach signpost G49 Montagut, where you should turn left past the swimming pool and on to the bike lane that will take you to the houses of the residential area of La Cometa.
ROUTE SPECIFIC INFORMATION Time: 2h Distance: 7,8kms Max. height: 289m Min. height: 187m Difficulty: Easy
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ITINERÀNNIA NETWORK ROUTE ROAD-TRAIL RIVER TOURIST SERVICES (See website) VERTICAL SIGNPOSTS OF THE NETWORK
ACCUMULATIVE SLOPE
Total climb: 127m Total descent: 90m
Altitude (m)
289
This route runs through fields of wheat and offers excellent views of the surrounding landscape, with the mountains of L’Alta Garrotxa as a constant backdrop to the north. Apt for the whole family.
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More or less halfway along the bike lane you will come to signpost MiO8 Carretera de Montagut; here, turn left to pick up a dirt track that will take you past some pig farms. Keep ahead until you reach a junction where you should turn left. Begin a short climb and pass by a small pine plantation, after which you should turn right. Head through pastures and fields until you come to another junction; here, turn right. Start to descend and cross the stream Torrent de Castellar on an old stone bridge. Continue straight on until you come to the old track that leads to these fields. Continue straight on and pass by a house, Can Valent. After a few metres, you will come to Can Galceran — you are now in the fields of an agricultural plain, Pla de Tapioles. Continue straight on until you come to a metalled road, where you should turn left and go parallel the A-26 dual carriageway for a stretch until you reach the cemetery. Turn to cross the A-26 over a false tunnel. Enter the village and continue down Carrer Major to signpost G51 marking the beginning of this route.