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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.
03 ARGELAGUER
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
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Easy
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.
THIRD CARLINADA ROUTE
Ajuntament d’Argelaguer www.argelaguer.cat
1h
THIRD CARLINADA ROUTE
Start at Argelaguer town hall in the signpost G125 and head towards Tortellà. When you reach signpost A1 Morató, continue straight on along the dirt track. After the tunnel under the A-26 dual carriageway, pick up the footpath that leads on to a metalled road. From here, follow the yellow Itinerànnia waymarking that will soon lead you to track. Drop down a little and in a few metres you will to come to signpost A3 Torrent del Vinyot. Here, turn right into an area of pastures and pass through a plantation of walnut trees, on the left towards where the battle in the Third Carline War took place. The three Carline Wars (1833–1839/1846–1849/1872–1876) were fought to decide who would succeed to the throne of Spain. The third war was vividly depicted by the writer, Marian Vayreda, who related his personal experiences in his novel Memories of the last Carline War. He tells in the first person the dramatic story of the important skirmish between the Carlines and Liberals that took place in summer 1873 near Argelaguer as it was besieged by the Carlines. They killed the local councillor Sebastià Costa and then went on to take and burn the neighbouring town of Tortellà on 22 August 1873.
ROUTE SPECIFIC INFORMATION
Return along the same path.
Time: 1h Distance: 3,5kms Max. height: 218m Min. height: 183m Difficulty: Easy
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ACCUMULATIVE SLOPE
Total climb: 42m Total descent: 42m
Altitude (m)
218
In summer 1873 the Carlines besieged Argelaguer and killed the local councillor Sebastià Costa. This route will take you to the sites of some of the episodes of the final Carline War.
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3,5 Distance (km)