ITINERÀNNIA, NETWORK OF TRAILS EN 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 12 villages to reach many small places. The network off ers many diff erent hikes depending on the time or diffi culty and you interest over nature, 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. ROUTE QUERALBS +INFO: FONT DE L’HOME MORT PATH’S www.itinerannia.net VILAMANYA MARKS TURN LEFT / RIGHT WRONG www.vallderibes.cat QUERALBS (3 x 10 cm) PATH www.elripolles.com #sendersvallderibes

The marks are placed approximately every 300 High 5h 30min 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 Download ITINERÀNNIA APP network signalling (banners with red tip) indicate the 4 nearest population in each direction and time needed. The banners of the itineraries of the munic- ipalities, as the one you have in your hands, have a green tip shows the name and direction of the route.

You will fi nd information boards with a map of the county’s trails in every village or city integrating the network. 12 ROUTE QUERALBS FONT DE L’HOME MORT VILAMANYA QUERALBS ITINERÀNNIA NETWORK ROUTE ROAD TRAIL RIVER TOURIST SERVICES (See website) VERTICAL SIGNPOSTS OF THE NETWORK

Q2 Font de l’Home Mort The starting point is plaça del Raig of Queralbs. CR Follow the sign R114 to Font de l’Home Mort. Walk through the village to take the GR11 in the church of Sant Jaume de Queralbs R115. From here Q1 Prat del Barló R114 CR continue to the spring by a pathway that gains Plaça del Raig altitude progressively. Once in the sign Q1 prat R115 Sant Jaume del Barló, leave the Itinerànnia path to follow the trail that matches the GR11. Walk about 1 hour and 40 minutes to get to the

Q3 Roc spring. Punxegut CR Just some metres far from the sign Q2 , there is the

CR Font de l’Home Mort. Continue towards the Saragossa Mine and Vilamanya. Cross the wooden

R146 Collet de les Barraques Q4 Vilamanya bridge over the torrent to continue going up through the forest to the collet de les Barraques, sign R146, the highest point of this route. Turn left at this point to start a steep stretch in the woods ROUTE SPECIFIC INFORMATION and follow the signs to arrive at the Saragossa Mine in a 15-minutes' walk. After 10 minutes more Time: 5h 30min Distance: 15,2 km of walking, there is the sign Q3 roc Punxegut. The Max. height: 1.889 m (collet de les Barraques) route can be shortened at this point by going back Min. height: 1.141 m (pont del Boscàs) to Queralbs through Estret del Forn (1.5 h approx.). Accumulative slope ascent and descent: 902 m Our proposed route, however, continues towards Di culty: High Vilamanya by a forestry road that goes through Queralbs, with its church devoted to Saint James, is a picturesque pastures and leads directly to the sign Q4. Once 1800 1700 mountain village and the gateway to Vall de Núria. Enjoy the past the village, turn left to go into the forest and 1600 magnificent views of Puigmal and the surrounding mountains 1500 go down until Pont del Boscàs. 1400 from collet de les Barraques. 1300

Height (m) Cross the Torrent by this bridge and go back 1200 Please, respect the sheep tracks and remember to close the 1100 to Queralbs after a last uphill stretch. 1000 0 electric fence! 1.000 2.000 3.000 4.000 5.000 6.000 7.000 8.000 9.000 14.000 15.000 13.000 10.000 11.000 12.000 Distance (m) Map: Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya. 2019 Information: Ajuntament de . Photos: Xavier Guinovart