The E7 is a European long-distance hiking trail that connects the Canary Islands with the Ukraine should connect, but has not yet been set up on all sections.
background
The E-ways
The European long-distance hiking trails are a project of the European Hiking Association (ERA-EWF-FERP). The EWF is an umbrella organization of national and regional hiking clubs that are responsible for marking and maintaining the trails in their area.
At the time when the EWF was founded in 1969, long-distance hiking trails began as a connecting element in Europe. Today the network of European long-distance hiking trails covers an area of 60,000 km.
The long-distance hiking trails are made up of well-known, shorter hiking trails and matching connecting elements. They are therefore mainly used in sections as a partial inspection and the higher-level long-distance hiking trail is the virtual bracket. For more information see the article European long-distance hiking trail E1.
The E 7
The E7 starts on the Canary IslandEl Hierro and uses the Spanish long-distance hiking trail on the archipelago GR-131, continues from Lisbon in Portugal and runs on the Portuguese long-distance hiking trail GR 12 (Rota da Indanha) to the Spanish border, which is reached at Monfortinho, then on the Spanish long-distance hiking trail GR 10-1 through the Extremadura in Spainwhich will leave the Castile-León region via the Tornavacasin pass, and continue on the GR 10 via the Escorial and north to Madrid passing through the regions of Castile-La Mancha, Aragón and Valencia, where they in Andilla on the European long-distance footpath E4 meets and follows the long-distance hiking trail GR 7, which the E7, which separates again from the E4, to the border Andorra follows. In Andorra the path reaches when crossing the Pyrenees a height of 2,864 m. In France he crosses the Canal du Midi and runs through the Montagne Noire, reunites with the E4 and leads into the Cevennes, where it separates from the E4 on the summit of Mont Aigoual. The route continues on the route of the French GR 6 Avignon past and through Provence, now together with the GR 4, in the Grand Canyon du Verdon. With the GR 51, Menton the Italian region Liguria reached. The long-distance hiking trail follows the Ligurian High Trail to the east, bypassing the city Genoa and continues to follow Piacenza in the Po Valley. In its further course it leads to Lake Garda, leads with two variants in the Friuli and achieved at KobaridSlovenia. In this country becomes the capital Ljubljana bypassed to the west and finally the path reaches the border at Hodoš Hungarywhere he's about Nagykaniszsa, Kaposvar and Pécs leads to the Danube, which is crossed in Baja to Nădlac in Romania. The continuation of the long-distance hiking trail in Romania, Moldova and in the Ukraine is not yet realized.
A variant the path leads over Zagreb in Croatia, another branches off at the Danube and follows it Novi Sad in Serbia.
As far as the path is laid out, the length is around 4,330 km; the total length should be around 6,700 km.
preparation
A helpful preparation list can be found in the article Way of St. JamesIn many cases, it is not the signs that are used as long-distance hiking trails, but those of the local hiking trails along which the E7 runs.
getting there
Please refer to the regions or cities and airports.
security
The route largely leads through safe travel countries. Sunburn and ticks are dangers that can be confronted on a daily basis. The Borrelia bacterium transmitted by ticks can only be stopped by treatment with antibiotics. You can protect yourself against the early summer meningoencephalitis TBE, which is caused by a virus, by vaccinating in good time before the trip. You should be checked or checked for ticks every evening.
Go on
literature
Web links
- Openstreetmap map (still incomplete). In:waymarkedtrails.org, accessed October 14, 2017.
- The E7 in the Outdoorwiki
- European hiking club
- E7. In:traildino.com, accessed October 14, 2017.
