Walking guidebook Southern Catalunya - Spain

• Location
• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Maps
• Updates
• Reviews

This guide is intended to be used in conjunction with walking maps produced by Editorial Piolet. These provide, within the limitations of the 1:25,000 and 1:30,000 scales, a good depiction of the walking terrain. Discrepancies between the maps and routes ‘on the ground’ are dealt with both on the sketch maps and in the text. The following are useful maps:

• Estels del Sud, La Travessa del Massis dels Ports
• El Port Mapes Excursionistes (two sheets, sold as a pair)
• Cardó and Rasquera

The Estels del Sud map is designed to accompany a multi-day circuit of els Ports and gives guidance in four languages including English. All the maps are available as both hardcopy and CDs and can be purchased online from the publisher at www.editorialpiolet.com (Catalan only) and from the main Tortosa bookshop at
www.la2deviladrich.cat/public/en, which has an English language option.

The Institut Cartografic de Catalunya produces maps of the area at 1:50,000, which can be bought in the UK. The scale is inappropriate for walking but the Baix Ebre (9) and Montsia (22) sheets are useful as detailed road maps. There is also online access to 1:10,000 maps at www.icc.es, but these lack essential footpath information.