Nuria an odd place

Today we have found our way to Queralbs and then walked up the mountain to Nuria, which is a bizarre place. Set up by St Giles in 700AD and then added to and rebuilt over the centuries becoming a monastery and ultimately a ski resort (although 2 greens and. a blue hardly constitutes a ski resort unless you are Karen). Messed up with the hotel as it is in Queralbs and not Nuria, but all ends well as a mountain railway meant that we left our packs at the Hostal, walked up and got the train back down. In the morning we are getting the train up to continue onto Setcases where we reach the highest point on the GR11 (2800m)

Nuria. This is 2000m up with no road link and up until the 1930’s when the funicular arrived the only way up was the mountain pass and pack horse. Incredible really
The funicular route through the granite mountains. Seen as we walk the old pack horse trail from above

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