LOCATION

Between the Arlabán Pass (on the Álava-Guipúzcoa border) and Estella (Navarra).

Section I: Between Vitoria/Gasteiz and the Arlabán Pass (Álava).
Section II: Between Km 2.7 of the Vitoria/Gasteiz-Otazu road (A-2130) and the Laminoria tunnel (in the vicinity of Ullibarri-Jauregi). There is a spur between Andollu and the Estíbaliz Sanctuary (Álava).
Section III: Between the Santo Toribio Chapel (Cicujano, Arraia-Maeztu. Álava) and Murieta (Navarra).
Section IV: Between Zubielqui and Estella (Navarra).

ÁLAVA-NAVARRA

Section I: 14 km + 1 km of practicable but undeveloped trail between the Álava-Guipúzcoa boundary and the Arlabán pass. In the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz we can follow the trail of the old railway line on a bidegorri (cycle path) between the east car park of the Gamarra Park and Madrid Street (1.2 km).

Section II: 20,2 Km (17 Km + 3.2 km of the spur to Estíbaliz). Between Vitoria-Gasteiz and the start of the Greenway there are 2 Km (1.2 Km of road and 0.7 Km of cycle path). The detour around the Laminoria tunnel is 8 Km long with steep slopes.

Section III: 37 Km.

Section IV: 3 Km.

Users: *

*Section I: Suitable with difficulties in the section affected by works (Urbina-Villarreal).
Section II: Suitable. The detour around the Laminoria tunnel is not suitable for people of limited mobility (steep slopes).
Section III: Suitable, although there are sections shared with motor vehicles and sections with an uneven surface.
Section IV: Suitable on the cycle path.

 * (Vitoria-Gasteiz–Amarita crossroads section)

Section I: Vitoria/Gasteiz-crossing providing access to Amarita (4 km): tarmac. Crossing providing access to Amarita-Arlabán Pass (10 Km): compacted earth.

Section II: Compacted earth.

Section III: Alternating sections of compacted earth and tarmac.

Section I: Llanada Alavesa. Ullibarri-Gamboa and Urrunaga reservoirs, wetlands with prolific bird and plant life. Beech and oak forests of the Elgea mountains. Arlabán river gorge. Arlabán pass. Oak forest at Amarita. Riparian forests bordering the rivers Zadorra and Santa Cristina.

Section II: Arable land and beech forests with oak, holly and bilberry. Llanada Alavesa and Montaña Alavesa. The Laminoria tunnel passes below the Ullibarri pass which separates the two ranges of hills known as the Montes de Vitoria Orientales and Montes de Iturrieta. The beech forest at Iturrieta is considered to be the most important of its kind in Álava.

Section III: The ranges of hills known as the Montes de Vitoria and Sierra de Iturrieta, the Laminoria valley, the Igoroin gorge, the Pocilones defile, the Arboro and Soila hills, the Istora ravine (very close to the Greenway, between Santa Cruz and Zúñiga), the valleys of the rivers Berrón and Ega, the Izki Natural Park, the Sierra de Codés and Sierra de Lóquiz mountains, the Yoar Natural Park, large leaved linden and yew trees at Antoñana, Barranco de Lasia Nature Reserve, and the Arquijas defile.

Section IV: The Ega valley and the Muskilda hill.

Section I: Historical town centre of Vitoria/Gasteiz. 5 Vasco-Navarro Railway stations. Romanesque portal of the San Esteban Protomártir parish church and the Durana bridge. The San Martín parish church, bridge and Arzamendi Palace in Luko.

Section II: Historical town centre of Vitoria/Gasteiz. Estíbaliz Sanctuary. Stately houses at Aberasturi. Marquesa de Salvatierra Palace at Gauna. San Blas church, town hall, Ayala chapel and Santa Clara convent at Alegría/Dulantzi. Old stations and railway buildings.

Section III: Invención de la Santa Cruz church, stately houses and town hall at Maeztu. Santo Toribio chapel and Romanesque church of San Esteban at Aletxa. Cicujano parish church. Romanesque church of Santa Eufemia in the village of Leorza. Church of San Martín de Musitu (12th C). Vasco-Navarro Railway stations. Ibernalo church and sanctuary at Santa Cruz de Campezo. Remains of mediaeval walls, stately houses, mills and tower houses at Antoñana. Shrine, chapel and mediaeval town centre at Zúñiga. Churches at Acedo, Ancín, Mendilibarri and Murieta.

Section IV: Monumental area of Estella.

Infraestructure:
Section I: Greenway.
Section II. Greenway. The detour around the Laminoria tunnel is not Greenway. It uses mountain trails with steep slopes.
Section III: Greenway. 5 tunnels (the Acedo tunnel is 1.4 km long), 3 viaducts and 4 footbridges
Section IV: Greenway. 1 tunnel

Section I:
Vitoria-Gasteiz. Renfe, Madrid-Irún line.
Landa and Durana. Bus. Empresa Pesa. Vitoria/Gasteiz-Arrasate/Mondragón line.
Legutiano. Bus. Empresa Continental-Auto. Line 11: Vitoria/Gasteiz-Durango. Empresa Juan Aja. Line 12: Vitoria/Gasteiz-Aramaio.

Section II:
Jauregi. Bus. Empresa Hermanos Alegría. Line 10: Vitoria/Gasteiz-Arraia.
Trokoniz. Bus. Empresa Hermanos Arriaga. Vitoria/Gasteiz-Trokoniz line.
Alegría/Dulantzi. Renfe. Vitoria/Gasteiz-Irún line. Bus. Line. Empresa Hermanos Alegría. Line 10: Vitoria/Gasteiz-Arraia.

Section III:
Antoñana. Bus. Empresa Hermanos Arriaga: Vitoria/Gasteiz-Estella line.
Santa Cruz de Campezo. Bus. Empresa Autopullmans Palacio. Lines 30A (Vitoria/Gasteiz-Estella) and 30B (Contrasta-Vitoria).

Section IV:
Estella. Bus. Empresa La Estellesa: Pamplona-Logroño and San Sebastián-Logroño lines. Empresa Hermanos Arriaga: Vitoria/Gasteiz-Estella line.

Conection:
Section I:
Vitoria/Gasteiz, 12 km from Legutiano.
Section II:
Vitoria/Gasteiz, 3 km from Otazu.
Section III:
Vitoria/Gasteiz, 27 km from Cicujano and 45 km from Antoñana.
Section IV: Estella, 3 km from Zubielqui.

Section I: National Geographic Institute Map: scale 1:25.000. Sheet 112.
Section II: National Geographic Institute Map: scale 1:50.000. Sheets 112, 138 and 139.
Section III: National Geographic Institute Map: scale 1:25.000. Sheets 139-I, 139-III, 139-IV, 171-II and 172-I.
Section IV: National Geographic Institute Map: scale 1:25.000. Sheets 140-III and 172-I.

Mapa Oficial de Carreteras (Official Road Map) published by the Ministry of Development.