Alta Ribagorça Sant Salvador d'irgo 07/08/2015

The blog was firstly intended for biking and hiking trips. After some entries here is the first biking entry. My initial intention was to post the track of all the trips however the GPS in my mobile simple sucks, so in lots of cases I'm not able to take the track.

The route I did today is quite short and I have done it several times. You start in El Pont de Suert a town in the deepest part of the valley and start climbing. After 4.4 km and around 30 minutes you reach Gotarta, small town, no downhill, only mountain to climb. After some more kilometers we reach the heighest part where the chapel of Sant Salvador d'Irgo de Tor is. At this point we are at 1402 meters above sea level and we have spectacular views. As we started in 850 we have climbed 552 meters in around 8 km and 55 minutes . The route downhill is nothing special, the bad condition of the road forces us to stay at moderate speed. In around 10 minutes or less we are back home.

There is not much information of the chapel. The first mentions date back on the XVII century. The building is simple without any decorations and the entry is closed to visitors.