On the eve of World Book Day, and for those who will plan a stay in the Val d’Aran, here’s a post with the most comprehensive list of guides and tours of our land, a selection that offers us the accredited bookstore Ruda in Vielha.
Also included in the list there are books illustrated with the most incredible images of landscapes and people of the Valley. Took by renowned Aranese photographers they are essential pieces in the library of those who like the descriptive landscape photography.
Essential guides
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Xavier Gregori, Rosa Mª Comamala
Editorial Alpina
Languages: español
Pages: 156
Price: 20 €
Easy to read, Val d’Aran hiking guide, with climbing and hiking routes. It includes partial maps, profiles and timely and accurate descriptions of the itineraries. From the same publisher: Guia Alpina. Lagos de la Val d’Aran; Val d’Aran. Mapa y guía y Carros de foc. Mapa y guía.
Vall d’Aran. 17 excursions a peu
Francesc Xavier Gregori
Cossetània edicions
Language: Catalan
220 pages
Price: 14,50
17 itineraries made by the author to explore the Val d’Aran in summer with 115 illustrations.
A peu per les carenes atlàntiques de l’Aran
Language: Catalan
184 pages
Price: 20€
Guide centred in the tops and ridges from Montgarri to Artiga de Lin, that close the valley to the north, with the only concession made to the Garona waters to find out to the Atlantic.
Muntanyes de Canejan. Val de Toran
Montserrat Timoneda i Jaume Llanes
Editorial Cossetània
Language: Catalan
Price: 18,90 €
288 Pages
A compilation of 90 excursions, climbs, peaks and channels of snow and ice. (Recompilation winner of the VII Premi Vèrtex organized by the Federació d’Entitats Excursionistes de Catalunya).
Montserrat Timoneda i Jaume Llanes
Editorial Sua
Languages: Catalan, Spanish and French
144 pages
Price: 17,50
Journey through the high ridges of the Garonne: climb to 160 peaks over 35,000 meters of altitude, about 200 mountain intense hours spread over 22 days and with different levels of technical difficulties.
Montserrat Timoneda i Jaume Llanes
Editorial Sua
Languages: Catalan, Spanish and French
96 pages
Price: 15,40
Circular journey mountaineer eminently affordable for anyone with a good trekker base, which allows you to discover all the extraordinary beauty of the landscapes of the Aran mountains.
Precio: 15,40
Ignacio González Orozco
Editorial Sua
Language: Spanish
152 pages
Price: 15 €
Complete and practical guide that shows the Val d’Aran and make us discover all the treasures of this corner of the Pyrenees.
M. Mateos Marcos y A. Morais Ezkerro
Editorial Prames
Language: Spanish
328 pages
Price: 25 €
Exposure does not mean risk. Only risk those unfamiliar with the medium, those, which are not mastered in the technique, those, which have no experience, and those that are not physically and mentally prepared. These are the guarantees that allow us to face down safely. But we also have to learn to be exposed. (L. M. Mateos Marcos)
Vias ferratas en el Pirineo y el pre-Pirineo
Luis Alfonso
Editorial: La noche del lloro
Language: Spanish
264 pages
Price: 23 €
64 detailed description of Pyrenees iron roads. Each track has a detailed sketch all the way, access and lowering equipment, requirements and recommendations.
Val d’Aran. Esquí de montaña y raquetas 75 itinerarios
Francisco Román
Editorial: Desnivel
Language: español
252 pages
Price: 17,10
75 itineraries presented with its route on the map and representative colour photographs and a detailed description of the route and all the information necessary for replication: a starting point, slope, orientation, difficulty, and recommended approximate time period.
Libros ilustrados
Francesc Tur / Jèp de Montoya
Editorial Lunwerg
Languages: Catalan, Spanish and English
240 Pages
Price: 29,5 €
More than 100 unpublished photographs of all the Val d’Aran and in particular the emblematic town of Baqueira, took by Francesc Tur, the photographer par excellence of these magnificent places.
Idioma: Aranese, Catalan, Spanish and Franch.
160 pages
Price: 29,5 €
A spectacular view over the natural, artistic and human heritage of one of the most unique places in the Pyrenees with 140 colour images of the professional photographer Javi Montes.
La Val de Toran. Fotografiant racons de l’Aran
Elisenda Managuera, Jordi Feliu
Editorial Piolet
Language: Catalán
76 pages
Price: 12 €
Collection of photos after the impression caused to the authors by the first visit to the valley, which has made them return again and again to photograph steep mountains, frozen rivers and forests that seem be taken from fairy tales and their villages which remain authentic as their nature.
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Pagès editors
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Pagès editors
Language: Aranese
486 pages
Price: 40€
“A picture is better than thousand words”. Book illustrated with historical and current photographs of the people and the landscape of the Val d’Aran. Paper version of the documentary “Aguestes Montànhes”
Ana Miranda Casas
Mira editores
Language: Spanish
Pages: 223
Price 19€
Thirty-three Romanesque churches located along thirty-five kilometres In the Valley. Its description, location and relationship of the artistic treasures that enclose them are reflected in this work, which has become the main guide to this style in Aranese lands.