The Verdaguer route

Verdaguer, one of the key authors of the Catalan renaissance, was capturing the aroma of areas of the mountains that had their own distinct personality.  He gorged himself on them, their history and their cultural richness to create the verses that immortalised the poetic beauty of the valleys.

The Verdaguer route endeavours to evoke the sensations that Verdaguer himself experienced, from the night of the 25th of august 1883, when his guide left him at the door of Creussans.  Entering further into the darkness with every step that evening, crossing rivers and admiring the beauty of the country situated in a “nook of the Pyrenees”, as he described, Verdaguer arrived at the prairies of Castellar and spent the night in a cabin.  The following morning he took up the trail again and passed by the Serrat, arriving at the Llorts church where he took mass that Sunday.

The visitors that want to follow in the footsteps of the cleric can cover the trail in their own vehicle or through other methods of transport.  You can travel up in the cable car and descend on foot, cover the royal trail from Castellar to Ordino by bike, or even cover the whole route on foot just as Mossèn Cinto did over a century ago.  The trail allows you to admire the beautiful villages of the Valls del Nord, appreciate nature in its purest state and emulate the poet, that thanks to that trip was able to understand and capture the roots and the identity of the villages.