The Urumea Valley

Instream

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Location:: Donostialdea. Donostia-San Sebastián, Martutene, Astigarraga, Hernani, Ergobia and Fagollaga.
Route type:: Routes by bike

Beautiful route that gets deep into the Urumea Valley and, following the river’s course, reaches Fagollaga. Farmhouses, cider bars, cornfields, glass house crops and countless industrial estates adorn this route.

We start from the Anoeta Stadium, in Donostia-San Sebastián, through the Zorroaga Promenade. At the end, below the diversion, we go towards the Loyola barracks. We skirt round the Batxillardegi Farmhouse and reach the road going up towards the Riding Club. We run parallel to the GI-131 road up to Martutene, where we can observe the new Parish of La Inmaculada Concepción (1), in El Apostolado School. After it, we find a crossroad with three paths. If we take the one in the middle, we will go down towards a flyover. Parallel to the railways, leaving the Basozabal Golf Course (2) to our right, we reach a bridge and, without crossing it, we continue through an area with vegetable gardens and farmhouses that will lead us to another flyover, in Ergobia.
We go on towards Hernani and, after going through an industrial estate, we will see the remains of a bridge of the old San Sebastián-Hernani tramway (3). We arrive at the Florida Station and go towards the industrial estate, round which we will skirt in order to find the rugby ground. We pass below a viaduct and reach a residential area. We get to the Portu Quarter through the Karabel Bridge. We skirt round the Lonja House and, after passing below the viaduct, we take the asphalted track crossing the Otsuane irrigation channel, towards the Eziago Industrial Estate. After passing by three cider bars, we cross a wooden bridge that will lead us to a new estate. At the end of it, we come back to the other riverbank crossing a stone bridge. We are now at the municipal power station.
Here begins a hard steep slope that ends at another estate. We continue towards the Goiko Lastaola Cider Bar and face another steep slope. At the end of it, the path makes a sudden turn to the right, but we continue ahead in the direction of Fagollaga, where we will get after a vertiginous slope down and a slight up and down. In Fagollaga, we must visit the three-arch stone bridge (4) and the old Fagollaga Foundry (5), opposite the restaurant bearing the same name.

Observations:: Difficulty level: 1. Line route with very smooth slopes and a very steep slope down before arriving at Fagollaga. The only difficulty for the non-experienced will be the 28 kilometres round distance.