5 routes for the summer in Catalonia

Go up mountains, walk by footpaths, cross surroundings protected and natural spaces, walk by forests… any place is good to practise hiking in the mountain, a perfect sport for the lovers of the nature.
It chooses good company, studies the route, do you with a good map, puts a bit of food in the rucksack and something of clothes of coat and to enjoy… but, please, first of all know careful.

We propose you here 5 routes of hiking in Catalonia. They are not all those that are!, but we have trying recopilar the most representative.

1. Camí dels Enginyers

The Camí of the Enginyers joins The Vall of Nuría and the Refugi of Coma ofCow . It is an easy way to realise but of a big beauty due to the fact that discurre to half slope of the mountain with some seen inmejorables on the Valley of the River Freser, Queralbs and Ribes of Freser.

The Camí dels Enginyers is a variant of the GR-11 and was born by a project of an electrical head office that had to close the Valley of Coma of Cow with a prey constituting an artificial lake. Fortunately this prey never carried out but in contrapartida left us ones of the most beautiful footpaths of the zone.

Data of the route:

Point of start: Valley of Nuría (42.397125563060406,2.1535778045654297)
Full stop: Refugi Comma of Cow (42.38541408544982,2.218959331512451)
Total distance: 9 Km
Route: Only gone.
Desnivel Total accumulated positive: 330m
Desnivel Total accumulated negative: 270m
More information: Camí dels Enginyers

2. Puigmal

The Puigmal (2.911 m), called also Puigmal d’Err, is the highest mountain of the Oriental Pyrenees and of the province of Girona of here his recognition like one of the most emblematic summits of Catalonia.

Located between the municipal terms of Queralbs (Ripollés, Girona) and Err (Alta Cerdaña, Oriental Pyrenees) is the highest of the summits that configure the designated Big Pot that surrounds the valley of Núria.

It is a wide peak and rounded; his ascensión is simple if the climatic conditions are not adverse. In his summit finds a cross of iron fraguado and a plate with verses of Cinto Verdaguer.

There is diverse routes to rise the Puigmal. Here we propose you one of the most famous in the Catalan part.

Data of the route:

Point of start: Fontalba – Queralbs (42.366796422153456,2.1519577503204345)
Full stop: Peak of the Puigmal (42.38330610440477,2.1167054772377014)
Total distance: 9 Km
Route: Ida and turn.
Desnivel Total accumulated positive: 900m
Desnivel Total accumulated negative: 900m
More information: Puigmal from Fontalba

3. Camí Of Round: Portbou – Roses

The Camí of Round is a footpath of Big Route (GR) that advances along all the coastal line and prelitoral, with big seen on the calas of the Costa Brava and the Mediterranean. In some points goes through places of big natural interest, like the Natural Park of the Cap of Creus or the Natural Park Aiguamolls of l'Empordà.

His starting point situates in Portbou, beside the border with France.

The footpath goes through locations quite important. Thus, we recommend that each organise the route in function of his interests.

The footpath that propose you here, visits in two days the first stages of the GR 92, from his start in Portbou until Roses, doing night in Cadaqués. The most stood out of this route is the stretch that visits by the Natural Park of Cap of Creus and the glorious seen on the coast and calas of the seaboard.

Data of the route:

Point of start: Portbou (42.426529,3.15937)
Full stop: Roses (42.26257367891544,3.17779541015625)
Total distance: 18 Km
Route: Only Gone.
More information: GR 92: Portbou – Roses

4. Fageda In Jordà and volcanos

This itinerary is very recommended so much by his simplicity as by the fact that it goes through three enclaves of big natural value, like the forest of have Fageda d'in Jordà, the volcano of Santa Margarida and the volcano of the Croscat, two of the 40 volcanos that configure the one who is the best exponent of volcanic landscape of the Iberian peninsula.

The Natural Park of the Volcanic Zone of the Garrotxa is a big space protected of 15.000 has. It treats of a very rich zone in flora and fauna, with more than 1.000 species of plants, good examples of hayedos, encinares, robledos dry and humid, and more than 250 species of vertebrate animals.

From Olot take the road GI-524 direction Santa Pau. In 4 km find the Area of CanSerra , point of set off for the Fageda d'in Jordà, where exists an information centre of the Park and a parking.

Data of the route:

Point of start: Can Serra (42.15459931385122,2.516587972640991)
Full stop: Can Serra (42.15459931385122,2.516587972640991)
Total distance: 10 Km
Route: Circulate.
Desnivel Total accumulated positive: 150m
Desnivel Total accumulated negative: 150m
More information: Fageda in Jordà and volcanos

5. Matagalls From Sant Marçal Montseny

The Matagalls is a classical ascensión and one of the mountains of the Montseny more appreciated by the mountaineers. It crosses the hayedo of Matagalls, the Coll Pregon (curious collado desprovisto of vegetation in the middle of the exuberante hayedo).

The seen from the summit are esplendidas: Viladrau, the Montseny and in clear days can arrive to see the serralada of Montserrat and the Pyrenees, from the saw of the Cadí to the Canigó going through the saws prepirinaicas.

The peak is rounded and little clear-cut and presents a side north quite escarpado and enriscado, whereas the meridional slope is of little slope and of forms onduladas.

In the Matagalls there is installed a cross of proportions destacables that the people of Viladrau has gone renewing every time that the inclemencias of the time have gone it destroying. The first dates of 1840.

This itinerary splits of Sant Marçal of the Montseny and follows a stretch of the GR 5.2, what involves that the footpath is perfectly indicated and does not have lost any.

To arrive to Sant Marçal of the Montseny, owe to direct us Sant Celoni. Once in this municipality take the detour to Saint Faith of the Montseny that finds to some 18 Km. We follow this road until arriving to Sant Marçal of the Montseny, some 7,5 km more, where there is a small parking just from which begins the ascensión.

Data of the route:

Point of start: Saint Marçal (41.804478022063094,2.4181509017944336)
Full stop: Matagalls (41.80849265677002,2.3824453353881836)
Total distance: 8 Km
Route: Only gone.
Desnivel Total accumulated positive: 600m
Desnivel Total accumulated negative: 600m
More information: Matagalls from Sant Marçal Montseny