14 Arfa - Castellciutat

The first section of the route, until Arfa, follows the route 13.

In Arfa, instead of continuing towards the plan, cross the Segre by a medieval bridge, and that is one of the few survivors of the floods of 1982. From this point going back. Let the left the hill on which lies the village of Montferrer an ancient possession of the Bishop of Urgell, where he put the castle to watch the comings and goings of the viscounts of Castellbò.

Leaving the river climb the streets of a residential area. We gain a view of the mountains and Nabiners Coma and the Mixing of the Waters, the confluence point Segre and Valira. We will going up above the ridge. A steep descent brings us to the Neck-Town or the Language of Serpent, also known as. We go through the edge of an ancient Citadel, the military facilities, which were begun at the end of the seventeenth century to protect the Castle Town. Today there is a school of tourism.

We reached Castellciutat, dominated by the castle, which was the former residence of the Counts of Urgell and, later, the most important fortification Castellbò viscount, who was transformed into a modern fortress by the Italian engineer Borsano Ambrosio, the 1692. To reach the lever City sector of the western extension of her, to return to the starting point.

The first section of the route, until Arfa, Arfa 13.a follows the route, instead of continuing towards the plan, cross the Segre by a medieval bridge, and that is one of the few survivors of the floods in 1982. From this point going back. Let the left the hill on which lies the village of Montferrer an ancient possession of the Bishop of Urgell, where he put the castle to watch the comings and goings of the viscounts of Castellbò.

Leaving the river climb the streets of a residential area. We gain a view of the mountains and Nabiners Coma and the Mixing of the Waters, the confluence point Segre and Valira. We will going up above the ridge. A steep descent brings us to the Neck-Town or the Language of Serpent, also known as. We go through the edge of an ancient Citadel, the military facilities, which were begun at the end of the seventeenth century to protect the Castle Town. Today there is a school of tourism.

We reached Castellciutat, dominated by the castle, which was the former residence of the Counts of Urgell and, later, the most important fortification Castellbò viscount, who was transformed into a modern fortress by the Italian engineer Borsano Ambrosio, the 1692. To reach the lever City sector of the western extension of her, to return to the starting point.