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Description
Track that people and pack animals
can travel along.
Example 1
Cami des Barranc de Biniaraix
Uses
it connected the villages in the Tramuntana
mountain range with the villages
of EI Pia, was a pilgrimage route
to the monastery of L1ucand was also
used for transporting olives. This track
is documented in the 14th century as
a public path, although some of its
modern day construction features and
a large part of its cobbling date from
the end of the 19th century.
Materials
Rough stone.
Surface
Cobbled.
Construction Features
The track is supported by a retaining
wall which is not always the same
height and has a single exposed face
with rubble and soil behind it. On its
other side the track winds around the
shape and the rocky parts of the hillside.
The cobbling has a row of stones
and small drainage ditches.
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cobbling and at the same time has an
aesthetic function. It is made up of a
course of stones laid in the centre of
the cobbling and which divides the
latter into two parts. It is a cart track
feature which is usually found in bridle
paths that are very wide or very well
made.
The drainage ditches are sloping rectangular
cross section stone courses
which stick up a few centimetres
above the track's surface. Their function
is to carry away water.
The track has side protection in the
shape of a row of corner posts, stones
laid vertically. As is usual with bridle
paths, these corner posts are laid
right next to one another save for the
places where a small gap was left for
the drainage ditches to remove water.
Location
Barranc de Biniaraix, S611er.
Example 2
Carni de Son Ordines
Use
It connected Els Tossals Verds and
Son Ordines.
Materials
Rough stone.
Surface
Cobbled
Construction Features
The track is supported by a small
retaining wall seated on the rocky part
of the hillside which consists of one or
two courses of barely dressed stone;
on its other side the track winds
around the shape and rocky parts of
the hillside.
The cobbled sections are stepped. A
significant part of the track has a projecting
upper row of the retaining wall
which acts as lateral protection.
This is a track built or at least refurbished
in the 1930's.