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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 SANTA PAU
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
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.
You will find information boards with a map of the county’s trails in every village or city integrating the network.
+INFO: www.itinerannia.net www.turismegarrotxa.com
ALONG THE OLD MONKS’ PATHS Moderate
5h.
ALONG THE OLD MONKS’ PATHS
This walk starts in the village of Santa Pau in Carrer Major where you will find the junction marked by Itinerànnia signpost G29 Santa Pau. Head for ‘Begudà’, cross the place and continue along Camí Doma, cross the main road to a minor road passing through fields and takes you to Itinerànnia signpost G28 Can Coderc that continue direction to Begudà. In this point we found the yellow marks for the path Coll de la Boixeda just found the Itinerànnia signpost G119 La Boixeda.
ROUTE SPECIFIC INFORMATION Time: 5h Distance: 15,2 kms Max. height: 898 m Min. height: 457 m Difficulty: Moderate
G994 - Camí de Sant Abdó
ACCUMULATIVE SLOPE
Total climb: 797 m Total descent: 797 m
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Altitude (m)
751
Al pujar a Sant Julià del Mont la vall de santa Pau s’obre als nostres peus i podem comprovar com les laves dels volcans Santa Margarida i Roca Negra van omplir tota la vall, formant una plana ample i fèrtil.
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At Coll Satrapa you come to Itinerànnia signpost G117 and the route changes direction. Turn left towards ‘Santa Pau (per Coll de Boixeda)’ and continue to climb, now on the shadier north face of the mountain. Cross over a track and immediately take a path off to your left. From here you continue up to the summit of Sant Julià del Mont, where there is a triangulation point. This is the highest point of the walk (907 m), although you can still ascend a few more metres if you climb to the top of the bell tower of the ruined church.
The descent begins next to the information board about Sant Julià and heads north to where, at the end of the downhill, you come to Itinerànnia signpost G116 Sant Julià del Mont. Turn left towards ‘Santa Pau’ and begin to drop rapidly. At the end of the footpath, turn left and continue downhill.
G126 - Camí Doma
604
As you reach the base of the cliffs there is a small rock outcrop on your right that provides stunning views over the Santa Pau valley. Try and imagine how the lavas from the volcanoes of Santa Margarida and Roca Negra filled up the valley bottom and formed a plain that is today much wider and more fertile than it otherwise would have been.
The Church of Sant Julià del Mont was once part of the Benedictine monastery that was established on this summit in 866. Within a century it had come under the control of the monastery of Banyoles.
G28 - can Coderc
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Head towards ‘Sant Jaume de Llierca’; in just a few metres you will have to pass through an electric fence and then continue on a footpath through the fields. With a gully down to your right, head up to the left to reach a fence below a farmhouse. Circumnavigate the house to your right, passing between two ancient oak trees. Here you pick up the old trail that begins to climb gently over bare rock ramps with a line of reddish cliffs up to your left. As you gain height the views over the Santa Pau valley and the Serra de Finestres broaden out.
A little further on you come to a broad track, which you should follow right. This track takes you out to a broad saddle on the ridge, where you should keep straight on and a little to the left of the ridge top as the track U-turns away to the right. Further on, cross straight over the same track and then come back to it once again. Turn right to a metal gate and out to Coll de la Boixeda and Itinerànnia signpost G118 Coll de la Boixeda. Continue towards ‘Begudà’ and after just a few minutes you come to signpost G994 Camí de Sant Abdó, where you should follow the green sign towards ‘Sant Abdó i Sant Senén’. In just 25 min you will then reach this small mountaintop church. From the church, follow the marked path down to Itinerànnia signpost G25 Coll de Palomeres, where you should head right for ‘Santa Pau 1h 45 min’. After a walk of around 35 min you will find yourself back at signpost G994, from where you should continue back to Itinerànnia signpost G118 Coll de la Boixeda, and then right down towards La Boixeda, Mascou and the centre of Santa Pau.