Start : La Pinyareda., village of Agullana.
(S/E) From the restaurant, head up the road (Carrer la Concordia) then Carrer Pinyareda and just before you reach the T-Junction at the end there is a path off to the left by a wire fence.
(1) Follow it and it will bring you out past a mas set in lovely gardens with a swimming pool where you turn right and follow a path through vineyards.
(2) You need to turn left again just before where the path starts to descend fairly steeply with a wood on the right hand side and cross to the woods on the far side of the vines. There you will find a path that crosses a stream. There is a wire fence on the other side with a gap that has a couple of pallets making a very rough gate. Take it.
(3) You will come out on a forest track where you need to turn left and then almost immediately left again over a low stone wall and skirt round the ploughed field there, turning right along the bottom edge until you find a short path to a door in the hillside with a sign above it saying something along the lines of ‘fortifications by the 4th Battalion of Engineers’ in Catalan.
(4) The tunnel is quite long but dry and amazingly grafitti-free. It leads to two chambers; one with spy holes looking out across the plane and the other, on the inside, must have been a place to sleep when not on duty. The tunnel continues on and comes out the other side, and here apparently you are meant to carry on round to the front to see something else before doubling back. You then need to make your way back to the forest track. Turn right and follow it down the hill. (3)
After around 900m, eventually, you will see a path on the left that leads up a steepish slope. There is a pink marker on a tree at the bottom of it. Go up here and head to the top where you will find another forest track and a signpost indicating a menhir 30m to the left and Agullana 1.5km to the right.
(5) Head up to check out the menhir and the view of the south of the Pyrennees.
(6) Once you’ve gazed your fill, turn back round (5) and walk down the hill and follow the track until it turns into a road as you come into Agullana. Head for the centre and take a look round the village which is beautifully kept and has a nice church.
Then turn down Carrer la Concordia past the immense café bar which was apparently a hospital in the Civil War and has since been turned into a communal bar. There is also a garden at the back, so perhaps this would be a good alternative to La Pinyareda where we ate. If you carry on more or less straight down the Carrer Oliveres you will eventually see the restaurant in front of you. (S/E)
