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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.
05 LES PRESES
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.
TORRE DE MURRIÀ ROUTE
Ajuntament de les Preses www.lespreses.cat
2h 30min
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TORRE DE MURRIÀ ROUTE
Start in the town’s main square (La Plaça Major), signpost P1 Església de Sant Pere, and head for ‘Xenacs (pel camí de les Barrincoles)’. Follow a metalled road as far as Can Talaia, where you should turn right and start to climb through a field. Shortly, you enter into the forest and pick up a footpath that begins to loop as it climbs. Following the yellow Itinerànnia waymarking, continue to climb until you reach signpost P2 Xenacs. Here, continue straight on, climb a little more and then reach Xenacs recreational area and signpost P3B Àrea de Xenacs. Head towards ‘La Torre de Murrià (45 min)’ and climb to signpost P4 Serrat de les Aulines, where you should turn right and drop down through a thick holm oak forest. Follow the ridge, entering and leaving a succession of clearings, until you reach La Torre de Murrià. Here, turn right and drop down along a path – with sections with steps that make the descent easier – to the road that climbs from Les Preses to Xenacs. Here you will come to signpost P5 Trona del Rector: turn left and pick up the path ‘El Camí dels Bous’.
ROUTE SPECIFIC INFORMATION
Start to descend and eventually enter into an area of pastures, Editorial Alpina
Time: 2h 30min Distance: 6kms Max. height: 897m Min. height: 477m Difficulty: Moderate
minutes will take you back to the start of the walk. ITINERÀNNIA NETWORK ROUTE ROAD-TRAIL RIVER TOURIST SERVICES (See website) VERTICAL SIGNPOSTS OF THE NETWORK
ACCUMULATIVE SLOPE
Total climb: 555m Total descent: 555m
Altitude (m)
897
Torre de Murrià is a Roman watchtower that was converted into a signalling tower during the Carline Wars. It is reasonably well conserved and its moat and walls can still be seen.
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