Upper Vallespir GR®P Tour - Destination Canigó

Upper Vallespir GR®P tour

Distance: 101.2864km

Duration: 6.0 days)

Level: Very difficult

Elevation: 6004m D +

Departure : South Center Canigó Sports and Full Nature

Arrival: South Center Canigó Sports and Full Nature

Max altitude: 1802m

Minimum altitude: 259m

Loop

Type of practice: Traveling hike

Theme(s): Protected natural area, History and heritage

From Perpignan follow the D900 towards Le Boulou then the D115 towards Arles-sur-Tech. Shortly after the hamlet of Alzine Rodone, take the road to the left (before the bridge over the Tech) then reach the Center de Pleine Nature Sud Canigó.

Hiking in Haut Vallespir means walking in the heart of the history of a country and its border. The watchtowers, fortified places, forts and redoubts are significant witnesses in the landscape. Hiking in Haut Vallespir also means traversing a wild and preserved mountain. Throughout the balcony route, numerous viewpoints continuously offer sweeping panoramas over the Haut Vallespir and its vast forests, over the route completed or still to be surveyed, over the Canigó massif and the villages, over the Roussillon plain and the sea… Hiking in Haut Vallespir means discovering an exceptional territory: welcome to Sud Canigó!

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Welcome to Haut Vallespir, the southernmost territory of mainland France, with a rich historical past as a border “country”.

Points of interest

Jacouty Station

Coal platform

La Devesa shelter and hut

Orientation table of Sant Guillem

Retirada, the exile of 1939

Hermitage Nostra Senyora del Corral

Cabrenç Towers

Pla de la Muga

Pilo de Belmaig

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Ranking & labels

Itinerary registered in the Departmental Plan of Walking and Hiking Routes of the Pyrénées-Orientales.
This route is part of the 1000 km of GR® and GR®P in the Department of Pyrénées-Orientales. GR® and GR®P are trademarks registered by the French Federation of Hiking and the marking of this route is carried out by the volunteers of the Departmental Committee of the French Federation of Hiking of the Pyrénées-Orientales.

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