Producer history
With the aim of promoting the walks along the old railroad tracks of Girona, two consortiums were set up: one for the Railway Route (from Girona to Sant Feliu de Guíxols) and another for the Narrow-Gauge Railway Route (from Olot to Girona). In addition, the Iron Route Consortium (Ripoll, Sant Juan de les Abadesses, Ogassa, and Olot) is currently being set up.
In 2002, it was requested almost unanimously that the three routes be joined together in a single consortium in which Girona Provincial Council would act as a unifying element, leaving the door open to the incorporation of other routes that would like to join the project and expand the network throughout all of Girona province.
The original aim of the consortium project members was to bring together the municipalities located in the areas of the Railway Route (from Sant Feliu de Guíxols to Girona), the Narrow-Gauge Railway Route (from Girona to Olot), and the Iron Route (from Olot to Ripoll and Ogassa), in collaboration with Girona Provincial Council. Echoing this, representatives from the Provincial Council, from the other two consortiums, and from municipalities in the area of the Iron Route had several meetings that resulted in the first steps towards the constitution of the Girona Greenways Consortium, which would aim to take on the work originally carried out by the organisations that manage these routes. In an ordinary plenary session held by Girona Provincial Council on 23 April 2002, as proposed by the Advisory Committee on Sustainability and New Technologies, the draft statutes for the Girona Greenways Consortium were approved and a management committee was set up. In another ordinary plenary session held by Girona Provincial Council on 19 November 2002, the consortium¿s statutes were definitively approved and their full publication was agreed upon. The Girona Greenways Consortium members¿ agreements, together with the definitively approved statutes, were also sent to the Directorate-General of Local Administrations for the Consortium¿s inclusion in the supplementary section of the Catalan Local Authorities Register.
The four routes are managed by the same organisation: the Girona Greenways Consortium, whose members include Girona Provincial Council and the 28 city councils of the areas through which the routes pass.
The Consortium's objectives and purposes are:
a) To plan and manage the different routes in Girona province.
b) In general, to coordinate all the actions geared towards making this project viable.
c) To maintain and improve the layout of and connections between the different routes.
d) To expand the network of routes in Girona province.
e) To support sociocultural initiatives related to the routes.
f) To promote the use of the bicycle as a mode of transport.
g) To promote the use of the routes by pedestrians.
h) To coordinate the institutions, federations, and administrations related to the objectives of the Consortium and the promotion of the routes.
i) To help, support, and advise other similar initiatives.
j) To boost efforts to obtain all of the subsidies possible.
Archive history
Initially, it was included as part of the Girona Provincial Council Fonds. As of January 2011, it is held at the Centre as an institutional fonds in its own right. The first record described in the database is from July 2005.
