Llagostera’s landscape provides an ideal setting for horseback riding.
Cavall de Mar offers the possibility to enjoy the landscape riding on a cart, or on a private, personalized excursion, as well as offers for incentive travel activities, romantic packages, schools, etc.
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The route of the mills: a walk through Ridaura into a singular landscape of unique buildings. The starting point is at the Station, where you can find a plan of the route.
Llagostera and its surroundings are perfect to hike and go on excursions on foot or on a bike.
Its large extension allows choosing from many different routes. Some of them, for example those of the Vall del Ridaura, are marked.
Excursions on foot or bicycle
Long and short distance footpaths
The long distance footpaths are mountain trails suitable for any walker. They are clean and marked narrow paths. The signals are easy to read and help to follow the path. There are red and white or yellow and white strips painted on stones, trees, electric poles, etc. There are two types of paths: Long distance footpaths (GR), covering more than 50 km and marked with red and white stripes, and short distance footpaths (PR), covering less than 50 km and marked with yellow and white stripes. These paths do not go through villages but lead, every 20 or 25 km, to places where lodging can be found. Hiking is a perfect way to discover nature.
Two paths run through Llagostera, a short distance path and a long distance path, the GR-92 Mediterranean. The short distance path (PR) goes from the mountain pass of Puig Montclar to Can Companyó, crossing the town following the old train tracks. The long distance path (GR-92) goes from Romanyà to Panedes and from Can Cabanyes de Montagut to Puig de les Cadiretes.
It is important for the hikers to evaluate the incidences that can appear on the path, such as the time of year, the distance to walk per day, where to sleep, water sources, etc. This information can be found in the Topo-guides. There is a Topo-guide for each path.
Together with the massif of Begur, the Gavarres massif is the northern end of the Catalan coastal range. Its curved arch-like shape widens toward the north between the counties of Baix Empordà and Gironès. It has an extension of 350 square kilometres, covering twenty municipalities: Calonge, Castell - Platja d’Aro, Corçà, Cruïlles-Monells-Sant Sadurní de l’Heura, Forallac, La Bisbal d’Empordà, Mont-ras, Palafrugell, Palamós, Santa Cristina d’Aro, Torrent and Vall-llobrega at the Baix Empordà county, and Cassà de la Selva, Celrà, Girona, Juià, Llagostera, Llambilles, Madremanya, Quart and Sant Martí Vell at the Gironès county.
To the north the massif limits with the Baix Empordà plain with a number of hills known as Pregavarres; to the north-west it meets the Transversal range and separates the plains of L’Empordà and La Selva; to the west limits with La Selva and to the south with the Vall d’Aro valley, a small depression where the Ridaura river separates the Gavarres and the Ardenya massifs. The Gavarres is a round shaped massif, the Catalan writer Josep Pla defined the shapes of the massif as being “elephantine”. The highest points are the twin peaks of La Gavarra (533 m) and Arques (527 m). There are other relevant peaks: Mare de Déu dels Àngels (485 m), Montigalar (467 m), Santa Pellaia (353 m), Puig Cargol (363 m) and Montnegre (285 m).
The Gavarres are situated between plains highly modified by human activity and close to a coast substantially altered. The massif offers an extensive forest landscape in all its extension.
The Gavarres territory is, as is always the case with any inhabited area, the reflection of the activities and living habits of the many human groups that have populated it. Houses point to the importance of the organization of society in families; the plot walls, irrigation, mills, ovens, etc. tell the tale of the means of subsistence of those families; the churches and paths are reminders of how the families got organised, and the names of the places and the legends reflect a way of thinking and perceiving the world.
The study of the landscape under a historical perspective allows discovering, under the thick carpet of vegetation covering the Gavarres, the remnants of the ways of life of those who have populated the successive stages of the history of the massif.
Places of interest:
● Panedes Neighbourhood. Nature area appropriate for hiking. Remnants of a Roman villa have been located here. Other places of interest in this area are the Panedes hermitage, Tower of the Moors, and fountain of Panedes.
● Well of Les Goges. Legendary and mysterious pond in the depth of the stream of Salenys.
● Wolf Waterfall. The waterfall is crossed by a hanging bridge that leads to the beginning of a via ferrata along the stream of Salenys.
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