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 0606 villages to reach many small places. VALL DE RIBES 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 +INFO: DÒRRIA PATH’S www.itinerannia.net PLANOLES MARKS TURN LEFT / RIGHT WRONG www.vallderibes.cat DÒRRIA (3 x 10 cm) PATH www.elripolles.com #sendersvallderibes The marks are placed approximately every 300 High 8h 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. 06 ROUTE DÒRRIA A circular route starting from the nucleus of PLANOLES Dòrria and arriving in Planoles. We set out in front of the church of Sant Víctor, at the R166 DÒRRIA crossing, along the stone-flagged streets, but we will quickly leave them behind. Along an initially flat path, we walk towards the bosc d’en Bernat wood (this section coincides with the GR11) and after some 20 minutes we come to the D1 Camí del Bosc crossing. At this point we leave the GR11 and the Itinerànnia basic network to continue the route. ITINERÀNNIA NETWORK After turning right, in a progressive ascent ROUTE crossing streams always on a clearly visible ROAD TRAIL path, we reach an altitude of 1,800 m, with a RIVER splendid view of the Ribes Valley. At this TOURIST SERVICES (See website) D1 Camí del Bosc point the path becomes narrower, passing VERTICAL SIGNPOSTS along the flanks of the Dòrria hill and the Pas OF THE NETWORK R166 Dòrria dels Lladres. We cross the Planès river and Pl Carretera del Collet de les Barraques then start the progressive descent to the CR collet de les Barraques road Pl1, which we reach in around two hours, rejoining the basic network and later the GR11. R148 Serrat del Mestre R147 Can Fosses Continuing towards Planoles, after a quarter CR of an hour we reach the R147 Can Fosses 1.800 crossing. At this point we can return towards 1.700 R149 Planès 1.600 CR Dòrria following the GR11 and the basic 1.500 1.400 CR network, taking around two hours. 1.300 R150 Camí CR Height (m) 1.200 de la Baronia 1.100 The proposed route continues to the nucleus 1.000 0 of Planoles. We reach the R150 Planoles 1.000 2.000 3.000 4.000 5.000 6.000 7.000 8.000 9.000 13.000 10.000 11.000 12.000 14.000 15.000 17.000 Distance (m) crossing towards La Baronia and continue towards Dòrria, passing through Planès, ROUTE SPECIFIC where we come to the R149 crossing. INFORMATION Dòrria is a small neighbourhood attached to Toses. Situated at an Continuing towards Dòrria, after some 20 altitude of 1,550 m, it is one of the highest villages in Catalonia Time: 8h 30min minutes we come to a new crossing, R148 and the Pyrenees. In the 2009 census it had 17 inhabitants. The Distance: 15,5 km serrat del Mestre. At this point we continue village has been declared a cultural asset of national interest due Max. height: 1.750 m towards Dòrria along the basic network and Min. height: 1.140 m to its beauty and the conservation of the Romanesque paintings the GR11, arriving in an hour and a half. of the church of Sant Víctor de Dòrria. Accumulative slope ascent and descent: 740 m Diculty: High Map: Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya. 2019 Information and photos: Ajuntament de Ribes de Freser..