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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.
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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
Moderate
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.
THE CHURCHES OF EL CORB ROUTE
Ajuntament de les Preses www.lespreses.cat
3h 50min
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THE CHURCHES OF EL CORB ROUTE
Start in the town’s main square (La Plaça Major), signpost P1 Església de Sant Pere, and head out towards ‘La Ruta de les Ermites del Corb’. Pass by the swimming pool, from where you should pick up a footpath that heads gently uphill to the right. You enter a deciduous oakwood that gradually gives way to beech as you climb. As the beechwood ends, you enter into a clearing where, just a few metres further on, you will come to signpost G143 Volcà del Racó. Turn right and climb in a few minutes to signpost G144 El Racó, where you should turn left and pick up a flattish path that passes through a holm oak forest before entering a beech forest. Continue along this path until you reach the small church of Sant Miquel del Corb in a clearing. From this church, pick up the track to the farm Mas L’Antiga, where you should turn right along a track that will take you to the church of Sant Martí del Corb and signpost G75 Sant Martí del Corb. Continue straight on along the forest track until the yellow Itinerànnia waymarking points
ROUTE SPECIFIC INFORMATION
you to the right, steeply uphill into the beech forest. Climb until you reach signpost G77 Baixant d’en Camps.
Time: 3h 50min Distance: 9,1kms Max. height: 909m Min. height: 472m Difficulty: Moderate
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ACCUMULATIVE SLOPE
Total climb: 658m Total descent: 658m
Altitude (m)
909
Here, turn right and follow the ridge of La Serra de Marboleny as far as signpost G78 Serra de Marboleny. Continue along the ridge top to signpost P4 Serrat de les Aulines, where you should head for ‘Xenacs (10 min)’. Once at Xenacs, at signpost P3 Àrea de Xenacs head towards ‘Les Preses (45 min)’. Start to drop gently to signpost P2 Xenacs, from where you should carry straight on and zigzag downhill as far as
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Sant Miquel del Corb and Sant Martí del Corb, two of the best-kept secrets of the Romanesque heritage of La Garrotxa.
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Can Talaia. Here, turn left and in a few minutes you will be back at your starting point.