Hiking

Begur – Palamós (GR® 92, leg 8) Palamós – Sant Feliu de Guíxols (GR® 92, leg 9)

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El Camí is a network of cultural hiking routes designed especially for travellers with time and leisure on their hands: hiking from one Catalan hamlet to another, taking in beautiful landscapes, exploring cultural heritage, folklore and gastronomy along the way. At least this is how the creators of the project envision the ideal El Camí […]

The Canigou Peak (Pica del Canigó) is the summit of the Canigou mountain in the Pyrenees, located in the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales. Its elevation is 2,784 m, and while it is not the tallest mountain in the Pyrenees, it had been considered one for many years due to its prominence in the plains of […]

Many summer guests of the Costa Brava resorts are familiar with this route: Camí de Ronda runs along the whole coast from Blanes to the south and Portbou to the north. Tens (in winter) and hundreds of people (in summer) visit its stone paths daily, enjoying the sea breeze and breathtaking views of Costa Brava, […]

A hiking and cycling route that runs between Palafrugell and Palamós in the Costa Brava is lovingly called the Little Train Route (Ruta del Tren Petit). At a length of just 6 kilometres, it’s one of the shortest Greenways in Catalonia, that has no viaducts crossing over deep valleys, no long dark tunnels, steep climbs […]

In 1993, the government of Spain in partnership with RENFE and other transit agencies in the nation carried out the inventory of the disused railway lines across the country. The total distance of the railways still in place but with no trains running turned out to be about 8000 km. Following the example of their […]

The stone oak tree Alzina de la Font de Can Massanet in the pueblo of Vilafant outside of Figueres is one of the 250 so-called monumental trees (árboles monumentales) of the Costa Brava protected by the Generalitat of Catalunya. The tree protection by-laws that cover trees of exceptional age, size, beauty and/or historical value were […]

The abundance of excellently maintained hiking trails and routes in Spain is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. It’s unclear whether Spaniards cheerfully go hiking because the existing trail network is great or whether the infrastructure is maintained so well because numerous hikers would prefer not to go missing on said trails. Either way, currently, […]