THE ADAC’S CYCLOTOURISM ROUTES

Nº 14

LES GORGUES DE CANET D'ADRI

Girona – Germans Sàbat - Sant Medir – Montcal – Adri – Biert – Canet d’Adri – Les gorgues de Canet d’Adri – La Vileta – Taialà – Germans Sàbat - Girona

Description of the cycling route:

This cycling route runs through the north-west area of the region of El Gironès.

You leave from Girona and you come back to the same place. You ride mostly along narrow or secondary asphalted roads and only while going up to Biert (and descending the same way) do you cycle on a mud track.

It is a hilly landscape, where you ride up and down all the time. You cross through woods and over fields; you ride beside some farm houses and near small villages, like Collsacarrera, Montcal, Adri, Canet d’Adri and Cartellà, and you can visit some churches such as those of Sant Medí (beside the “The Cistertian Convent of Santa Maria de Cadins), Sant Llorenç d’Adri (a Romanesque church from the X-XIth centuries located in the hamlet of Adri) and Sant Vicenç (another Romanesque church in the same municipality of Canet d’Adri). Biert is the highest point on the route. It is a hamlet which is no longer inhabited, where at the moment you can only find a church and a detached house. It is at about 400 m above sea level on the way to Rocacorba, the highest mountain in the region of El Gironès (991, 80 m above sea level).

Along the second part of the route, beside the village of Canet d’Adri, we arrive at the so-called “Gorgues de Canet” (the ponds of Canet) or “Font de la Torre” (Tower Spring). These pools are formed along the course of the  Canet stream. At the moment, you are not allowed to swim in the pools, however it is worth a visit and a walk to the place.

After about 30 km you arrive back in Girona by cycling through the municipality of Cartellà.

NOTES: Apart from Girona and Canet d’Adri, the rest of the villages that you cycle through are very small and they have no places where you can buy food or drinks. In Canet d’Adri there is only one shop, beside the village hall, where you can buy food, but you can find a number of restaurants where you can have a good meal.

On May 1^st, in Cartellà you can attend the celebration of the Day of the Charcoal Burner and you can see a demonstration of how charcoal used to be made in the woods. Also in Cartellà, you can visit the ecomuseum of the Vall del Llémena (Llemena Valley) which is in the rectory. If you want to visit it, you should get in touch with the cultural association Ateneu de la Vall del Llémena (tel. 972 428 610).

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English version: Sara Puigdemont and Vivien Greatorex

General examples of road types 

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