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This first English-language guide describes the best mountain and coastal walking near Tortosa, Southern Catalunya, Spain, in the Parc Natural dels Ports, on the Cardo and Montsia massifs and along the coast, all easily accessible from Barcelona, Valencia and Reus. 30 idyllic winter walking routes for walkers of all experience and abilities are included through this area of remarkable natural beauty and diversity. The immense limestone crags, ridges and pinnacles of the Parc Natural dels Ports overlook the broad orange and olive groves beside the River Ebro, giving a high drama to the landscape. Closer the to the Mediterranean, there is good walking on the massifs of Cardo and Montsia and a long-distance footpath along the coast. Mysteriously, the region is practically unknown outside the region. The wild limestone landscapes, from herb-covered hillsides to high pine forest, dotted with Templar castles and picturesque hill villages, remain untouched by mass tourism. All walks are graded for route-finding, scrambling required and exposure, and non-technical, suitable for any experienced hillwalker, and listed in a summary table at the back for easy selection, along with a Catalan glossary of mountain terms and lots of other local information.
About the Author
In 2002 Philip and Vivien Freakley moved to the French Pyrenees to indulge a lifelong passion for mountains. They discovered Southern Catalunya during an escape from a cold Pyrenean winter and have spent the subsequent five winters exploring, translating Catalan descriptions and knitting together apparently unrelated scraps of footpath for this, their first Cicerone guidebook.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Just used this book for a three-day exploration of the beautiful, but rather neglected, "Els Ports" Natural Park near Tortosa in Catalonia, Spain. Unusually for guidebooks of this type, I found the descriptions of the two walks I did to be very accurate and, hence, extremely useful. Perhaps that's because it's just a bit more up to date than other Cicerone guides I have used.
As a location for a walking trip: the paths were all good, the scenery stunning, the wildlife excellent; but the villages are low (~400 m) and outside the main Park, the heat (in late September) intense between noon and 4 pm, the buses infrequent, and hence the walks very long and energy-sapping. But I've seen enough to be determined to visit again, once I have more time and can find another inexpensive flight to Reus.
As a location for a walking trip: the paths were all good, the scenery stunning, the wildlife excellent; but the villages are low (~400 m) and outside the main Park, the heat (in late September) intense between noon and 4 pm, the buses infrequent, and hence the walks very long and energy-sapping. But I've seen enough to be determined to visit again, once I have more time and can find another inexpensive flight to Reus.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
We spent a fortnight in Southern Catalunya in September 2011 mainly walking in the El Ports park. We used the guide extensively and found it excellent. The available 1:25000 and 1:30000 maps at times cannot provide enough detail to reflect the complexity of the terrain. The guide must have saved us several hours searching for some of the less obvious paths. The descriptions of the routes to the start of the walks also were most valuable. This is simply the best Cicerone guide that we have used.
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