Leaders	Emili Bassols Isamat   Email: webassol@gencat.cat
Dates	June 7 – 11, 2010.
Number of participants	minimum 15 – maximum 35.
Cost	500 € (Includes full pension, box lunches, and transport by car).
Description	The Natural Park of the Volcanic Zone of the Garrotxa, created in the 1982, has more than 25 years of experience in management and conservation of the geologic patrimony in general and volcanic in particular. The volcanic zone of the Garrotxa contains the best preserved volcanic landscape of the Iberian Peninsula. It hosts about forty volcanic cinder cones and more than 20 basaltic lava flows. Orography, soils and climate provide a variety of vegetation, often exuberant, with holm oaks, oak groves and beeches of exceptional landscaping value. All this is located in a very active social and economically developed region. Within the protected area more than 40,000 inhabitants are living, and the metropolitan area of Barcelona, with more of 4 million inhabitants, is only one and a half hour by car. The objective of the management of this protected volcanic zone is how to make compatible conservation and the use of the resources and the maintenance of the activity of its inhabitants. The management experiences that will be exposed throughout the visit will try to show these efforts.
Program	June 7, 2010 Arrival and reception of participants at Girona airport and transport to Olot (1 h by bus). 19:00 to 21:00  Reception and accommodation. June 8, 2010 Main topic: “The conservation of volcanoes in the Natural Park of the Volcanic Zone of the Garrotxa: Management tools”. Place: Can Jordà (Santa Pau). 9:00 - 10:00 Geological description of the volcanic zone of La Garrotxa. 10:00 - 11:00 General aspects of The Natural Park of the Volcanic Zone of the Garrotxa management. 11:00 - 11:30 Break. 11:30 - 14:00 Visit to Croscat (Santa Pau) and Turó de la Pomareda (Olot) volcanoes. 14:00 - 16:00 Lunch. 16:00 - 19:00 Visit to Santa Margarida (Santa Pau) volcano and medieval centre of Santa Pau. Management of routes in a natural reserve and architectural patrimony. June 9, 2010 Main topics: “The European Charter of Sustainable Tourism and the city-planning arrangement in the Natural Park”. Place: Casal dels Volcans (Olot). 10:00 - 11:00 The European Charter of Sustainable Tourism. 11:00 - 11:30 Break 11:30 - 12:30 Visit to the Volcano Museum. 12:20 - 14:00 Visit to Montsacopa (Olot) volcano. 14:00 - 16:00 Lunch. 16:00 - 20:00 Visit to Girona city (50 km from Olot). June 10, 2010 Main topic: “Geo-diversity Conservation in protected zones. Visit to the Natural Park of Cap de Creus”. 9:00 Departure from Olot 10:00 Visit to the most inetersting areas of Cap de Creus Natural Park. 13:00 Visit to Port Lligat (Cadaqués) 14:00 - 16:00 Lunch. 17:00 - 20:00 Visit to Dalí Museum (Figueres). June 11, 2010 Departure.    8:00 Departure to Girona airport.