Fontalba, Mountain destination in Queralbs, Spain.
Fontalba is a mountain spot in the municipality of Queralbs, in the Ripollès district, at about 2000 m altitude. An 11 km forest track opened in the 1970s for driving livestock up and down ends here. From the end of the track a classic route to the Puigmal starts, and a path with little gradient leads on foot to Núria in about an hour.
The forest track to Fontalba was opened in the 1970s to move livestock up and down the slopes. It was also planned as a road link to the Nuria valley and the sanctuary of the Virgin of Nuria, but the road was never completed. The track ends where the classic ascent route to Puigmal begins.
The forest track that ends at Fontalba was opened in the 1970s so that livestock could be driven up and down to the pastures. It was also planned as a road to the sanctuary of the Virgin of Núria, a project left unfinished; the track simply stops at the paratge.
The 11 km forest track opened in the 1970s to move livestock and was meant to become a road to the Núria sanctuary, but it was never finished. At its end, the classic route up Puigmal begins, and a walk to Núria with little elevation gain takes about an hour.
The forest track that ends at Fontalba was opened in the 1970s to move livestock up and down, and it was also begun as a road project to reach the Núria sanctuary; that road was never finished, which is why the track stops here.
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