Els Àngels from Girona
Route & elevation
The ride
Els Àngels is the first climb anyone who moves to Girona learns, and it never stops being good. You head south through Llambilles and Montnegre on quiet lanes, and the road tilts up long before you notice it has.
The climb itself is steady rather than brutal — the kind you can ride at a real tempo instead of just surviving — and the sanctuary at the top has been watching cyclists come up here for decades. A thousand metres of climbing in sixty-four kilometres, close enough to town that you can do it on a weekday morning and still be at work.
Coffee stop
[ORIOL: cafetería de esta ruta — nombre y una línea de por qué paras ahí.]
Passport climb: Els Àngels
Els Àngels — 10.1 km at 3.8%, 386 m of climbing. Steady rather than brutal: the kind of climb you can ride at a real tempo instead of just surviving, with the sanctuary and a view over the Empordà at the top.
This is the official segment for the Girona passport.