1h 55min(go)

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VALL DE RIBES

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ROUTE OF THE HYDROELECTRIC STATIONS Section 1:Ribes-Fustanyà

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ITINERÀNNIA, NETWORK OF TRAILSItinerànnia 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 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.

You will fi nd information boards with a map of the county’s trails in every village or city integrating the network.

The marks are placed approximately every 300 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 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.

THE SIGNSAll the trails of the network are marked regularly over the paths with horizontal painted yellow signs.

WRONGPATH

PATH’SMARKS TURN LEFT / RIGHT

Time: 1h 55min (go)Distance: 4,5 kmMax. height: 1.175 m (Fustanyà)Min. height: 920 m (Ribes de Freser)Accumulativeslope ascent: 430 mAccumulativeslope descent: 190 mDi�culty: Medium

ROUTE SPECIFICINFORMATION

ROUTE OF THE HYDROELECTRIC STATIONS Section 1:Ribes-Fustanyà

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This is a linear route up the River Freser, exploring its history. We start at the castle of Sant Pere, at the R123 crossing, and follow the route of the power stations and Ventaiola. After a few metres we come to the RF3 crossing, above the castle of Sant Pere, and around 50 minutes later we reach the Rialb power station.We walk up the Ventaiola path and pass though a wire fence to walk alongside a pasture. A few me-tres later, along a well-trodden path with a pro-gressive ascent, we find many sections running be-tween stone borders, a sign of the former impor-tance of this path.After some 15 minutes we reach the RF11 Ventaiola crossing, from where we continue to-wards the power station until we reach Can Cerdà, a ruined farmhouse, from which we can walk down to the left to the Rialb power station, crossing the River Freser by the metal footbridge. Then we turn back to can Cerdà and continue towards Fustanyà. Around 15 minutes later we come to the RF12 camps d’en Quintana crossing, where we meet the Itinerànnia basic network, and continue to-wards Fustanyà via the Cinc Estreps (“five but-tresses”) cave. A little later we leave the basic net-work again at the RF13 pla de Rialb crossing and continue towards Fustanyà, arriving there in just 25 minutes.In Fustanyà, the R116 signpost indicates the return path (the same as the one we took earlier), which we can do in less than two hours. From this crossing we can also continue along section 2 of the route.

A route that will transport us through the history of Vall del Freser. All the hydroelectric plants we visit in the valley have great cultural and historic interest; in each we will find a brief information panel. Fustanyà is a small rural settlement belonging to the district of Queralbs, where we will visit the church of Sant Sadurní de Fustanyà.

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RF11 Ventaiola

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Map: Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya. 2019Information and photos: Ajuntament de Ribes de Freser

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RF12 Campsd’en Quintana

R116 Fustanyà

RF13 Pla de Rialb

R123 Castellde Sant Pere

RF3 sobre Castell de St. Pere

ROUTE OF THE HYDROELECTRIC STATIONS Section 1:Ribes-Fustanyà

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