The walking route from Cadaqués to El Port de la Selva is the GR-92: it leaves from the roundabout at the entrance to Cadaqués, climbs to the col by Els Bufadors at 380 metres and drops down the Costa del Torrelló. It is 12 km and 3 to 3.5 hours one way. The park also suggests a 23.6 km loop via Sant Baldiri de Taballera.
There is a direct footpath between Cadaqués and El Port de la Selva, the GR-92: 12 kilometres over the hills, 3 to 3.5 hours one way according to the Cadaqués tourist office. And there is a long loop that the Cap de Creus Natural Park suggests: 23.6 km, out via Sant Baldiri de Taballera and back along the GR-92. It is a way of getting from one village to the other without going round by road.
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The direct path: the GR-92
The Cadaqués tourist office explains it from its own door: turn left as far as the pharmacy, follow Avinguda Caritat Serinyana to the roundabout at the entrance to the village and, just north of it, between the road to Roses and El Port de la Selva and the road to Cap de Creus, you will see some dry-stone steps. That is where the GR-92 to El Port de la Selva begins, marked with the two parallel lines, white and red, used on all GR paths.
According to the tourist office's route page, it is 12 km, 3 to 3.5 hours one way and of medium difficulty, on road and path. The park puts the highest point at the col between L'Infern and Els Bufadors, at 380 metres, with an open view of Cap de Creus; Els Bufadors is easy to spot from afar because of its aerials.
A little further on is Mas dels Bufadors, at 307 metres: a farmhouse documented from the 17th century and lived in until the 20th, now in ruins and listed in the Architectural Heritage Inventory of Catalonia. The tourist office itself notes that on this stretch you spend much of the time walking along the top of the dry-stone wall, which is huge in places, zigzagging across the high ground with the sea in view.
Seen from El Port de la Selva
El Port de la Selva town council describes the same route the other way round: about 3 hours, with the first 50 minutes a steep climb up the Costa del Torrelló, passing very close to Mas Bufadors, heading for Muntanya Negra and dropping down to enter Cadaqués at the roundabout by the village entrance.
What is the final descent for anyone leaving Cadaqués is the opening climb for anyone leaving El Port de la Selva. The two sources do not give quite the same time, 3 hours in one and 3 to 3.5 in the other; neither publishes the climb for this section on its own.
The long loop via Sant Baldiri de Taballera
The park suggests doing it as a loop from El Port de la Selva: 23.6 km, 830 metres of climb and 8 hours 45 minutes, rated «very demanding» and waymarked with GR paint and marker posts. It starts from the free car park by La Ribera beach and climbs along the GR-11 by La Tamariua, among terraces held up by dry-stone walls from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
At 127 metres you reach Sant Baldiri de Taballera, an 18th-century chapel with the remains of a pre-Romanesque church, enclosed by a fortified wall with a watchtower and listed since 2006 as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. The route carries on over the Maó col, at 155 metres, where a farmhouse documented from the 15th century stands abandoned since the first decade of the 20th.
At the junction at 144 metres you leave the GR-11, which carries on towards Cap de Creus, and a track takes you to the Sa Devesa col, at 160 metres, where a sign bans motor vehicles. From there you drop down to Cadaqués and the Platja Gran, and the way back is the GR-92 above, up to the col at 380 metres and the long final descent. The GR-11 does not reach Cadaqués; for the stretch from the village to the lighthouse there is the guide to Cadaqués to Cap de Creus on foot.
Water, heat and rules
El Port de la Selva town council puts it plainly: there is no water point anywhere in the natural park. It asks you to carry water, walk outside the hottest hours in summer, protect yourself from the sun with a hat and wear suitable footwear.
When the Catalan government activates level 3 of the Pla Alfa for fire risk, access to the Cap de Creus Natural Park is banned on foot, by bike or in any vehicle. The map is updated daily on the Pla Alfa website.
The park asks you to stay on waymarked paths and bans fires, noise, litter, drones and camping; dogs must be on a lead. It also recommends checking the forecast before you go, telling someone where you are heading, carrying a charged phone and, if needed, calling 112.
Getting back
El Port de la Selva's route page ends by the bus stop for the return journey, but in October 2026 we could not find a published timetable between the two villages on the Moventis website. Ask at the tourist office before setting off; if there is no bus that day, the park's loop solves the problem, because it ends where it starts.
Checked
Checked in October 2026 against: the hiking page of the Cadaqués tourist office (visitcadaques.org: GR-92 to Port de la Selva and the route that shares the GR-92 from Mas de Bufadors), the «From El Port de la Selva to Cadaqués (GR92)» page and the Pla Alfa notice from El Port de la Selva town council (elportdelaselva.cat), the same council's Sant Baldiri de Taballera path page, and route sheet 22 «El Port de la Selva – Cadaqués» from the Cap de Creus Natural Park (parcsnaturals.gencat.cat).
Quick questions
Does the GR-11 go from Cadaqués to El Port de la Selva?
No. The GR-11 links El Port de la Selva with Cap de Creus; the direct path between the two villages is the GR-92.
Is there water along the way?
No. El Port de la Selva town council warns that there is no water point anywhere in the natural park, so carry your own.
How long is the park's loop?
23.6 km, 830 metres of climb and 8 hours 45 minutes, starting from La Ribera beach in El Port de la Selva.