Routes
Below you will find a list of excursions and activities you can do around the area.
Walking Routes
Walk around Banyoles Lake
Circular route of low difficulty marked as number 1. It is a ride that goes around the Lake of Banyoles and allows us to explore viewpoints and ponds in the area. (nearby areas: the Parc of la Draga, the Place of Fainting, Villain of the pond, the Romanesque church of Porqueres).
More information: Route informationVista panoràmica 360º
- Distance: 8 km
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time: 1 hour and a half/ 2 hours
Walk on the Puda and the Estunes
Walking tour that allows us to explore an area of marshes and ponds close to the Lake of Banyoles. This area has reintroduced the stork and the donkey you can also see many more birds and animals. Following the trail you reach the Estunes forest, a place of oaks where one can see large slabs of travertine with cracks that we can visit inside.
More information: Route information
- Distance: 4 km
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time: 1 hour
The Forest of Estunes
Directions to the Estunes forest, a place of oaks where one can see large slabs of travertine with cracks that we can visit inside.
More information: Flyer of “les estunes”
- Distance: – km
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time: free
Walk on Can Morgat and Puig Clarà
Walking tour marked as Route 3 begins at the church of Santa Maria de Porqueres, the most important example of Romanesque architecture in the region. Then, skirting the Lake of Banyoles, you reach the lagoons of Can Morgat. Then the road climbs towards the hills until Puig Clara. From above, at 315 meters, there is a viewpoint from which you can observe the Banyoles lake and the city.
More information: Route information
- Distance: 7 km
- Difficulty: medium
- Time: 2 hours
Mirador del Puig de Sant Martirià
Is the lookout par excellence of the Banyoles lake and the surrounding mountains, you can see a panoramic view of the Pyrenees to Montgrí. Apart of the mountains that are closer, as Rocacorba, we can see the Lady of the Mount, the Pyrenees of the Ripolles and the Canigó.
- Distance: 1,5 km
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time: 30 minuts
Other routes
short trails | Means | Difficulty | Time |
El Camí of Sant Jaume – Etapa of Bàscara a Girona | ![]() ![]() |
Medium | 8 hours |
Passejada per Orfes | ![]() |
Easy | 1h |
Ruta Banyoles-Usall-Melianta | ![]() |
Medium | 2h 30′ |
Ruta of Can Morgat i Puig Clarà | ![]() |
Medium | 2 hours (visiting all points) |
Ruta of la Puda i les Estunes | ![]() |
Easy | 1 hour aprox. (without stops) |
Ruta of les fonts | ![]() |
Very easy | 2h 45′ |
Ruta of el Barri Vell | ![]() |
Easy | 1 hour (without stops). |
Ruta of el veïnat of Roca i Briolf | ![]() |
Easy | 2h 15′ by foot |
Ruta pels volts d’Esponellà | ![]() |
Easy | 1h 30′ by foot |
Volta a l’estany | ![]() ![]() |
Easy | 2h 30min. |
one day | Means | Difficulty | Time |
Banyoles i la seva història | ![]() |
Very easy | |
Cornellà – Palol – Camós: Patrimoni i costums | ![]() ![]() |
Very easy | |
De la Màgia a la realitat of la comarca | ![]() |
Very easy | |
El món rural: pobles i poblets | ![]() ![]() |
Molt difÃcil | |
Enmig of la natura | ![]() |
Very easy | |
Indrets naturals amb molt d’encÃs | ![]() |
Very easy | |
La prehistòria al Pla of l’Estany | ![]() |
Very easy | |
L’encant of Sant Miquel | ![]() |
Very easy | |
L’estany of Banyoles i el seu entorn | ![]() ![]() |
Easy | |
Un pas endavant en la història comarcal | ![]() |
Very easy | |
Un viatge en el Time | ![]() ![]() |
Easy |