Destination La Garrotxa
Pre-Pyrenean region of medium mountain located in the north of Catalonia.
The best example of volcanic landscape in the Iberian Peninsula.
La Garrotxa is a pre-Pyrenean region of medium mountains located in the north of Catalonia. Both the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, the Alta Garrotxa Area of Natural Interest, and other areas are part of the Natura 2000 Network, a European initiative to protect the most unique, diverse, rare, well-preserved, representative, fragile or vulnerable natural areas.
Diversity and uniqueness
The Garrotxa Volcanic Zone is the best example of volcanic landscape of the Iberian Peninsula. It has about forty volcanic cones and more than 20 lava flows. Its orography, soil and climate provide a varied vegetation, often lush, with oak, oak and beech forests of exceptional landscape value.Alta Garrotxa is the most important territory of the eastern Pre-Pyrenees for its diversity and uniqueness. Its extremely abrupt orography has conditioned the landscape, vegetation, fauna and human settlements and has allowed the maintenance of a relatively isolated natural space that preserves an important biological richness.
The climate
The climate of La Garrotxa is medium mountain Mediterranean, with abundant rainfall that generates cool summers, while the influence of the Pyrenees makes winters are cold.
Vegetation
While in the Alta Garrotxa and in the east of the county there is a sector of Mediterranean vegetation, the rest of the county is covered by sub-Mediterranean vegetation that becomes Atlantic in the most humid areas.
Mobility
In La Garrotxa there are more than 1,100 km of marked trails for walking, and some of them can also be covered by bicycle. In addition, the region has numerous bus lines that connect practically all the villages, and there are lines such as Rumbus, which are specifically designed to access the most frequented areas with the least possible impact.