Valldemossa – Oriel Ses Puntes

The Route of Pedra in Sec is a GR that naughty the Serra of Tramuntana of Mallorca of tip to tip

Valldemossa - Mirador Ses Puntes — Valldemossa – Oriel Ses Puntes

This footpath circulate part of Valldemossa and visits part of the footpath that joins the populations of Valdemossa and Deià following the route of Pedra inSec .

The Route of Pedra in Sec or the GR-221 is a footpath of big route that naughty the Serra of Tramuntana of Mallorca of tip to tip.

It calls Route of Pedra in Sec because of the big quantity of constructions done with the method of construction of dry wall that can find in his way: margins, mines, walls, barracks, fridges, etc.

It has roughly some 283 km and takes advantage of, in the main part, the ancient ways that discurren very near of the highest beaks of the Saw of Tramuntana of Mallorca, that in numerous cases surpass the 1000 metres of altitude.

In this stretch of the route will go out of Valdemossa and will arrive to the the Pla give Pouet, afterwards will go through the Oriel of Can Coast, Sa Talaia Vella and the Coll of Sound Gallard, for finally will direct us to the starting point in Valldemossa.

Place	Days	Length	Desnivel	Desnivel	Difficulty	Type route
Abril 2010
Balearic Islands	1	13 Km.	475 m.	475 m.	Easy

Place	Days	Length
Abril 2010
Balearic Islands	1	13 Km.

Desnivel	Desnivel	Difficulty	Type route
475 m.	475 m.	Easy

1. Valldemossa - Oriel Ses Puntes - Talaia Vella

Valldemossa - Mirador Ses Puntes - Talaia Vella

To access to the municipality of Valldemossa, from Palma de Mallorca will take the road MA-1130. Also we can take a bus of the Line 210 that goes from The Square Spain of Palma de Mallorca until the core of Port of Sóller doing stopped in Valdemossa

From the stop of to the bus in Valldemossa, situated to 400 metres on the level of the sea, 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.

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 follows straight and that begins to rise to the Oriel of Can Coast or Ses Puntes (775 m) with some impressive sights. This oriel receives this name by the sights that has, in vertiginous fall on these houses. The name of Ses Puntes proceeds of the almenas that to way of fortificación mediaeval circundan his perimeter.

We retreat a few metres until him deviation that now remains to our left, leaving to the right the way that have used to come of the Pla give Pouet. We follow the milestones of the way always in upward sense rightwards and quickly will arrive to the Talaia Vella (855 m) where will find a vértice geodesic.

We follow the way until arriving to a small shelter in ruins (875 m) with esplendidas seen of the Camí of the Artxiduc situated in the mountain of in front and that forms part of the footpath of Pedra inSec .

We go out of the shelter in direction sea to take a footpath that will drive us until the Coll of Sound Gallard, to 766 metres on the level of the mar. In this crossing have to take the way of our right and that begins to descend until arriving to the Pla give Pouet, from here will take the way of turn until the population of Valdemossa.

Profile of the stage: Valldemosa (400 m) - Pla give Pouet (2,37 km, 690 m, 40 min) - the Oriel of Can Coast or Ses Puntes (4,500 Km, 775 m, 1 h)- Talaia Vella (6 Km, 855 m, 2 h) - Shelter (7,500 Km, 875 m, 2:30 h)- Coll of Sound Gallard (8,500 Km, 770 m, 3 h) - Pla give Pouet (10 km, 690 m, 30:30 h) - Valldemosa (12,50 Km, 400 m, 4 h).