Pedra In – Sec GR-221

To access to the municipality of Valldemossa can take the bus of the Linea 210 that goes from The Square Spain of Palma de Mallorca until the core of Port of Sóller.

From the stop of to the bus in Valldemossa (400 m.) We take the road until the parking main of this population. From here, we turn manually left to take the streets of Joan Looked and Joan Fuster that they will carry us until the street of Ses Oliveres, in the part Nord West of the urbanisation of Sant Vicenç Ferrer. At the end we leave to our right a driveway and begin to rise by a way of earth.

This stage is one of the worst indicated of the five days that have by in front, by what is advisable to do with a map or a device GPS not to lose by us the innumerable footpaths that cross the zone.

The way begins to rise by a footpath sinuoso until achieving the Pla give Pouet situated to little less than 700 metres on the level of the sea, a wide landing populated of encinas and chaired by a pozo.

In the Pla give Pouet have to take a footpath that goes out to our right, no the main footpath that follows straight. We follow rising by a way sinuoso until achieving the Coll of Sound Gallard (766 m.)

Now the GR-221, directs to the East taking a footpath that goes out to our right.

We arrive to a promontory from where have seen esplendidas. By a way empedrado the way plans during some minutes until abandoning this way empedrado and take a detour to our left that heads to the Cingles of Sound Rutlan.

We begin to descend, it is necessary to loan a lot of attention not to happen us the detour that turns to our left to the few minutes of descent. THE footpath this marked with mojones but is easy despistarse in this point. 

The footpath begins to descend decididamente by a forest until the slope softens and arrive to Deià.

Profile of the stage: Valldemosa (400 m) - Pla give Pouet (2,37 km, 690 m, 40 min) - Coll of Sound Gallard (3 km, 770 m, 1 h) - Camí of s'Arxiduc (4,50 km, 923 m, 1:30 h) - Cingles of Sound Rul·lan (5 Km, 840 m, 1:45 h) - Deià (8 Km, 125 m, 3h).

This stage passes by the municipalities of Deià and Sóller and offers like special appeals the opportunity to discover two milestones of reference in all the excursions by saws it north of Mallorca: the core of population of Deià and the seen on the port of Sóller from of the cape Gros.

The itinerary allows to contemplate good examples of houses of the Serra of Tramuntana, with his bancales of olivar and of huerta, so much inside earths of Deià (Are Bujosa, Are Coll, ...) As of Sóller (Are Mico, Can Prohom, Can Carabasseta, Can Chard and the Big Crutch), the small chapel of Castellón (17th century) and the faro of the Cap Gros (19th century).

From the point of view naturalístico, is very interesting the stretch of the itinerary that passes by the sabinar of Crutch, the only coastal forest of this type in the saw of Tramuntana. Also they are of big interest for the visitor the diverse lithologies that can find , as it is the case of the outcrops of plasters that have been exploded in shape of quarries in the zone of Can Chard, as well as the ancient ovens used for the his transformation.

The exit of the core of Deià realises by the way of Sa Vinyeta, in the past called of Sa cala, until the bridge of Sa Cala where will leave it to take manually right the way of Sa Pesta and happen afterwards near of marry Them of Sound Bujosa.

It walks afterwards by a stretch of the Road C-710 and arrive to the way of Castelló, going through the houses of Ca l'Abat, that owes his name to the acquisition, that in the 16th century, did Pere Maians, abat of the Real.

The ancient way of Castelló, main road of communication with Sóller before the construction of the road in the 19th century, allows us discover Are Coll, the origins of the cual trace back to the 13th century. Near of this group of houses find us the source of Sound Coll, also known like the source of Ses Mentides owing to the numerous disputes that by his water had the inhabitants of Sound Coll and of Llucalcari.

The houses señoriales of Sound Mico and Can Prohom constitute the next milestone and near of these will find the chapel of Castelló, that dates of the 17th century. Built for the veneración of Nostra Senyora of the Rosari, today finds in ruins.

In this point will have to decide if we take the way direction to the shelter of Crutch (Port of Sóller) or head to Sóller by one of the variants of this Route. If we direct us until Sóller will be able to shorten some kilometres of the hard and long stage of the following day.

If we decide to follow to the shelter of the Crutch, will find us another point of big interest that is the one who constitute the houses of Big Crutch, with the big tower of defence, built for the protection of the pirates.

Profile of the stage to Shelter of Crutch: Deià (125 m) - Pont of Sa Cala (1,5 Km, 60 m, 30 min) - Are Coll (4 Km, 280 m, 1:15 h) - Capella of castelló (6,5 Km, 230 m, 2 h) - Big Crutch (8,5 Km, 180 m, 2:30h) - Shelter of Crutch (10 km, 100 m, 3 h)

Profile of the stage to Sóller: Deià (125 m) - Pont of Sa Cala (1,5 Km, 60 m, 30 min) - Are Coll (4 Km, 280 m, 1:15 h) - Capella of castelló (6,5 Km, 230 m, 2 h) - Cas Xorc (7 km, 240 m, 2:15 h) - Camí give Rost (8 km, 110 m, 2:30 h) - Camí of Rocafort (9 km, 50 m, 2:45 h) -  Sóller (10 km, 50 m, 3 h).

This stage moves away of the coast for adentrarse in the municipality of Escorca, saving pending very pronounced. It offers like special appeals the seen on the valleys of Sóller and of Cúber and the opportunity to know Sóller, one of the most significant enclaves of the Saw, and the ravine of Biniaraix, place protected by the statement of Well of Cultural Interest in 1994 by the value patrimonial of the Pedra inSec .

Along the itinerary are forced the visits to the urban area of Sóller and the aldeas of Binibassí and Biniaraix. In the first stand out the modernist buildings and the houses, whereas the aldeas distinguish by the conservation of the popular architecture.

Can contemplate , besides, orchards of naranjos, olivares, houses of field, systems of aprovechamiento of the water (sources, canaletas, bebederos, mills of water ...), etc.

They stand out the big quantity of plants of mountain, many of which exclusive of the island, like the endemic ferns of the margins of the ravine of Biniaraix or the cojinetes of monk of the windiest zones, the plants and small rare or endemic animals adapted to the half aquatic of torrents and sources, the aquatic birds of the embalse of Cúber, and the rapaces that take refuge in the cliffs of this zone.

To continue the Route, from the shelter of Crutch it is necessary to go back backwards until the Big Crutch, take the way of Crutch and continue by the way of Binidorm and afterwards the one of Sound Go out. Crossed the roads C-710 and the one of the port of Andratx, by inside the streets of Sóller, arrives to the square of the Constitution.

Remember that if in the previous stage decided to do night in Sóller, saved you some 10 kilometres from the shelter of the Crutch until Sóller.

From this square, us head to us the aldea of Binibassí following the street of the Moon until connecting with the old way of Fornalutx. In Binibassí there is a way in a southerly direction that drives to the aldea of Biniaraix. The itinerary goes on down the way from ravine of Biniaraix and afterwards by the old way of the Coll of l'Ofre until arriving to the embalse of Cúber.

Once crossed all the valley of Cúber, arrives to the source of Noguer, from where will follow the pipe of the Gorg Blau, and after a small ascensión arrive to the Coll give Coloms.

In this point have two options. Descend during a few minutes until the Font give Prat and do night here, or direct us to the Shelter of Tossals going through the Old Houses of Tossals.

If we take the first option will save us an hour, some 4 kilometres in this stage (from the Coll give Coloms until the shelter) and another hour more in the stage of the following day (from the shelter until the Coll give Coloms) put that the way to LLuc goes through the Font give Prat. But in the Font give Prat will have to do vivac.

Profile of the stage: Shelter of the Crutch (50 m) - Big Crutch (2 km, 200 m, 30 min) - Sóller (10 Km, 50 m, 3 h) - Coll of l'Ofre (18 Km, 890 m, 5:45 h) - Coll give Coloms (26 Km, 750 m, 6:45 h) - Shelter give Tossals Verds (30 Km, 600 m, 7:45 h).

This stage passes entirely inside the municipality of Escorca and has like point of main interest the ethnological heritage and naturalístico tied to the zones boscosas and in the macizo of Massanella, one of the zones culminantes of the saw Tramuntana.

The interest naturalístico centres in the stretches of the itinerary that pass between leafy encinares and in which they trace back the most elevated points of the Saw, where can contemplate forests of deciduous trees, and rare species like the boj or the knit.

The ethnological interest is related also to the encinares and the mountainous summits. This stage allows to discover the constructions of stone in dry related with the obtaining of vegetal coal from the combustion of firewood of encina (barracks of carbonero, carrier ...). A special quotation deserve the houses of snow that can see in the macizo of Massanella and that they were protected with the statement of Place of Ethnological Interest in 2001.

The existence of the houses of snow is tied to the low temperatures of the summits, that allowed until principles of the 20th century the collected and storage of snow for the obtaining of ice. Of the more than 40 houses of snow that locate in the saw of Tramuntana, 11 find in this macizo and 7 of these, with the constructions attach (porches, terraces, ways, etc.), Are of public property and can see along the route.

The stage goes through the sanctuary of Lluc, the centre of peregrinación more important of Mallorca and already documented from the 13th century. Finally, the arrival to the shelter of Sound Amer, can enjoy so much of the elements patrimoniales included in the finca public of Sound Amer (bancales, sources, mills of water ...).

Remember that if we have happened the night in the Font give Prat, have to subtract 1 hour and some 4 kilometres to the stage of today.

Of the shelter of Tossals Verds, it is necessary to go back backwards to the Old Houses and take the way of Mancor to Almallutx. Beside the source of Massanella, it is necessary to follow the way of the comma give Prat, that drives until the collado of the houses of sa Neu. From this collado it is necessary to direct to the house of snow of in Galileo where begins the way of ses Voltes d'in Galileu for afterwards descend by the way of s'Alzina and descend to Lluc, specifically until near of the FontCoberta .

From Font Coberta it is necessary to direct to the road PM 214 and continue a few metres until arriving to a way that, in a southeasterly direction, arrives to Sound Amer.

Profile of the stage: Shelter Tossals Verds (510 m) - Font give Prat (3,500 km, 790 m, 1 h) - Coll of ses marry of Neu (7 Km, 1200 m, 2 h) - Puig d'in Gallileu (9 km, 1120 m, 3 h) - LLuc (15 Km, 510 m, 5:30 h) - Shelter of Sound Amer (16 Km, 5:45 h, 550 m).

The last stage leaves the municipality of Escorca for adentrarse in the one of Pollença and arrive until the core of this population, that marks the opening of the Saw to the mar.

In this zone, from the point of view naturalístico, is destacable the modelado karstic of the zone of Lluc, the centenarian encinares  and the small forest birds.

From the ethnological character, the route until Ca l'Hereuet, already inside earths of Pollença, discurre by the interior of dense encinares, where can follow observing the constructions of stone in dry tied to the activity of the carboneros (barracks, silos, ways, ...) And of the caleros. Along the itinerary can contemplate also houses of mountain, Sources, bancales, the mills of water of Llinàs, etc.

The main part of the itinerary that passes by Escorca forms part of the fincas public of Sound Amer, Menut and Binifaldó (the two last property of the Govern of them Illes Balears).

Of the Shelter of Sound Amer continues by the way of the hermitage that drives to the Coll Pelat and that largely finds transformed in forest track from the collado of Big Forest until the Font give Pedregaret, where the way turns into a way of horseshoe.

It continues afterwards by a way asphalted until Binifaldó, point in which it links with the old way of Lluc to Pollença that drives us until the core of Pollença, very near of the roman bridge.

From Pollença can take a bus that will carry us of turn to Palma de Mallorca.

Profile of the stage: they Are Amer (550 m) - Coll Pelat (2 Km, 690 m, 30 min), Font give Pedregaret (3,500 Km, 650 m, 1 h) - Pollença (17 Km, 50 m, 4:30 h).