3 days/2 nights
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We are committed to the environment and work towards sustainable tourism.
That is why we are taking measures in this direction. More information
We are accredited with the CETS: European Charter for Sustainable Tourism. Among our commitments, we adopt the following actions:We participate in a joint project between public and private entities of the territory to promote universal tourism in different areas of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park and the region in general.We design tourism proposals, for the universal public, which include participation in conservation projects promoted by the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park.
We adapt our experiences to adapt them to the objectives of the 2030 agenda, the SDGs and meet the 4D requirements (deseasonalization, defrequentation, increased spending and diversification).
Calculation of the ecological footprint of tourism packages, and reduction of CO2 emissions.
We collaborate with the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park to develop conservation projects that allow visitors to participate as volunteers.We actively participate in the development of the strategy of the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism of the Garrotxa.
Open map Olot (Girona), España
Self-guided tours
The Garrotxa region is one of the territories of Catalonia with more Romanesque buildings.
Many of these buildings are small hermitages scattered throughout the territory and located in strategic places: mountain tops, valley bottoms, volcanic cones, cliffs and cliffs.
Access to many hermitages is by historic roads that formerly linked them to nearby villages or to the most important farmhouses in the region. Some of these paths are still well preserved and hide small bridges and fresh water fountains that accompanied them.
The corners of the Vall de Bianya are the shelter of up to 16 Romanesque hermitages. A valley floor with crops and pasture meadows, accompanied by clippings of oak forests carvallo, with many scattered farmhouses, configures the current landscape, the result of an intense history.
On the other hand, the hermitages of the vall del Corb, next to the Fageda d'en Jordà (beech forest) and the ancient lava flows, have been writing the history of the territory for centuries.
Prices
- Guided tour: from 205€/person
- Rural accommodation, hotel or premium: on request.
Dates
All year round.
programme
- FIRST DAY:
Arrival in Olot and installation in the accommodation.
Dinner: Free.
Accommodation: To consult
- SECOND DAY:
Departure from the accommodation with a transfer to the valley of Bianya.
In the middle of the Garrochino territory, but linked to the Ripollès by the Roman road of Capsacosta (Via Annia), we find the valley of Bianya.
Only within the valley itself we find up to seven ancient parishes that in the past were one of the social and cultural engines of the people of the valley.
The route links four of these hermitages and then climbs the mountain range of Sant Miquel del Mont to reach the highest point of the day's excursion, which is the hermitage that gives its name to the whole mountain range. The panoramic views from this point are magnificent.
The last part of the route will be a pleasant descent to the town of Olot.
Apart from the hermitages visited, we can enjoy an itinerary in nature that passes through forests of oaks and oaks and crosses streams and streams fed by different sources of good and fresh water.
Distance: 16 km
Level: +540 m
Dinner: Free
Accommodation: To consult.
- THIRD DAY:We will leave on foot from the same accommodation and passing through the wetlands of the Moixina, we are approaching the Sierra del Corb.
This mountain range, which separates the waters of the Fluvià and Ter basins, hides places of great beauty.
After a first steep but short climb, we reach the Racó volcano that offers good views of much of the valley of Bas and the Natural Park of the Volcanic Zone of the Garrotxa.
A pleasant path will take us to the hermitages of Corb: Sant Miquel and Sant Martí, true pictures of the landscape of the Garrotxa.
Then, and on the way back to Olot, we can lose ourselves for a while in the Fageda d'en Jordà, a unique beech forest in the world that corresponds to one of the nature reserves of the Park.
Distance: 12 km
Level: +200 m
Approximate duration
3 days/2 nights
To whom it is addressed
All audiences