Platja d'Aro
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Ronda Walk (North)
From Platja d'Aro (Cavall Bernat) to Sant Antoni de Calonge (beach of Torre Valentina).
This is a basic walk of the GR92, being one of its most frequented sections: 3,5Km. in 1 hour approx. The section between the beach of Belladona and Sant Antoni can present some problem on the way (to see description more down).
This is a way of charming places of our incomparable Brave Coast, alternating wild areas with others humanized, but always maintaining a high degree of interest and in first coastline. The stage is short and simple, almost one walk.
We go out from the Big Beach of Platja d'Aro (sector Cavall Bernat North direction) and find the Cape d'en Ramis that gives step to the Beach Rovira or of Can Artigas. We cross the beach and in the end go up some stairs and pass for the stony block named Xuclador, which separates it from a the pretty beach of Sa Cova. We continue for the tunnels, some of them with windows on the sea and we arrive to the Cala del Pi (Pitxol or Vilaret) that is accessed for a long stretch of stairs. We go out from the beach through a tunnel. The coast is followed on small beaches and we reach the beach of Belladona, the islets Belladona Pequena and Big Belladona. Towards half of the beach are refound the stairs of the Ronda walk.
From here, the way can present more difficulties.
We find the isthmus of the peninsula formed by the Cap Roig, and its beach. We keep skirting the rocks, if in some moment the cut way remains, it has to be tried to overcome the obstacle since it is refound again. If for here passing is not possible, you have to moved back, to go to look for the C-253 road in the interior. Through a stretch of stairs you access to the beach Treumal or of Ses Torretes. There is a camping to the the left. You can cross it longitudinally by the sand. In the middle there is a stony promontory with a banister. You can get on or else pass through the sand. The following beach is the beach of can Cristus, long and of finer sand. Next the cala del Forn, with the Cape Piferrer in the south and the rock Isla Roja, then you arrive to cala Roca del Paller with walls of granite. Afterwards we pass for the cape of the Malpas and through some stairs we arrive to the cala de Roques Planes. We follow even the sea through the way surrounded with pine wood that arrives to the sea, and find the Tower of defense of a former farm that has been named after in the area: Tower Valentina. Some deviations that go are left on the small hidden beaches and finally you arrive to the beach of Torre Valentina where it starts the avenue of Sant Antoni that draws out up to Palamós.
Source: web of the Federation of Hikers Entities of Cataluna (http://www.feec.org)
Click on the map on the blue indications to see pictures of the creeks. (route in blue)
Photos of the Ronda Walk
This is a basic walk of the GR92, being one of its most frequented sections: 3,5Km. in 1 hour approx. The section between the beach of Belladona and Sant Antoni can present some problem on the way (to see description more down).
This is a way of charming places of our incomparable Brave Coast, alternating wild areas with others humanized, but always maintaining a high degree of interest and in first coastline. The stage is short and simple, almost one walk.
We go out from the Big Beach of Platja d'Aro (sector Cavall Bernat North direction) and find the Cape d'en Ramis that gives step to the Beach Rovira or of Can Artigas. We cross the beach and in the end go up some stairs and pass for the stony block named Xuclador, which separates it from a the pretty beach of Sa Cova. We continue for the tunnels, some of them with windows on the sea and we arrive to the Cala del Pi (Pitxol or Vilaret) that is accessed for a long stretch of stairs. We go out from the beach through a tunnel. The coast is followed on small beaches and we reach the beach of Belladona, the islets Belladona Pequena and Big Belladona. Towards half of the beach are refound the stairs of the Ronda walk.
From here, the way can present more difficulties.
We find the isthmus of the peninsula formed by the Cap Roig, and its beach. We keep skirting the rocks, if in some moment the cut way remains, it has to be tried to overcome the obstacle since it is refound again. If for here passing is not possible, you have to moved back, to go to look for the C-253 road in the interior. Through a stretch of stairs you access to the beach Treumal or of Ses Torretes. There is a camping to the the left. You can cross it longitudinally by the sand. In the middle there is a stony promontory with a banister. You can get on or else pass through the sand. The following beach is the beach of can Cristus, long and of finer sand. Next the cala del Forn, with the Cape Piferrer in the south and the rock Isla Roja, then you arrive to cala Roca del Paller with walls of granite. Afterwards we pass for the cape of the Malpas and through some stairs we arrive to the cala de Roques Planes. We follow even the sea through the way surrounded with pine wood that arrives to the sea, and find the Tower of defense of a former farm that has been named after in the area: Tower Valentina. Some deviations that go are left on the small hidden beaches and finally you arrive to the beach of Torre Valentina where it starts the avenue of Sant Antoni that draws out up to Palamós.
Source: web of the Federation of Hikers Entities of Cataluna (http://www.feec.org)
Click on the map on the blue indications to see pictures of the creeks. (route in blue)
Photos of the Ronda Walk
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