ARFA-CASTELLCIUTAT-LA SEU D´URGELL

Leave of Arfa,, cross the bridge to the Segre medieval, 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, cross the bridge and the lever back Arfa pass the greenway "Ribera del Segre" all along the left bank of the Segre and enjoying a scenery and its riparian forest.