List of Crags
Region | Crag | Overview | Rock Type | Altitude | Number of routes | Range of Routes | Faces | Name |
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Greece - Telendos | Telendos Miltiadis | A very pleasant crag with a variety of routes on rough rock, mostly in the easier grades, but also with a few excellent harder routes. |
Limestone | 100m | 30 | 5a - 7a | North East | Greece - Telendos |
Greece - Telendos | Telendos Pescatore | Mainly wall climbing varying from pleasant slabs to overhanging tufas. Excellent routes on solid, sometimes sharp rock up to 30m in height. |
Limestone | 50m | 40 | North West | Greece - Telendos |
Region | Crag | Overview | Rock Type | Altitude | Number of routes | Range of Routes | Faces | Name |
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Italy - Liguria | Frantoio | A nice quiet crag up in the hills with a lovely approach through a near deserted village. The cliff has a nice selection of quality routes on compact rock. |
Limestone | 700m | 20 | 6a - 8a | South | Italy - Liguria |
Italy - Liguria | Guggenheim | Guggenheim consists of three small but worthwhile overhanging crags. The climbing is generally steep, on good holds and well bolted. |
Limestone | 300m | 30 | 6b - 7c | North East | Italy - Liguria |
Italy - Liguria | Reunion | A small but excellent crag for routes in the 6b to 7a range. The climbs are gently overhanging, with good holds and well bolted. |
Limestone | 250m | 30 | 6b - 7a | North East | Italy - Liguria |
Italy - Sardinia | Cala Goloritze | A very special needle, and a very special location. Aguglia Goloritze rises 200m above the emerald green Mediterranean sea. |
Limestone | 150m | 20 | All | Italy - Sardinia | |
Italy - Sardinia | Canyon | Situated just above the town of Ulassai, the canyon is a great summer destination with excellent climbing in all grades. |
Limestone | 750m | 50 | 5c - 8a, with most interest in the 7s | All | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Cave of Dreams | Actually a continuation of the main Ulassai canyon, more easily reached from the sports field north of the town. |
Limestone | 800m | 30 | 6b - 7c+ | All | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Corvo Spaziale | One of the easier sectors at Isili, the routes start at hard for 4c on the left hand side and get progressively harder to the 8a at the right hand side. |
Limestone | 400m | 40 | 4c - 8a | South | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Creûza de Mä | The neighbour to Villagico Gallico, Creûza de Mä offers a similar selection of routes, also on good rock, the harder ones being a bit steeper. |
Limestone | 100m | 40 | 5a to 7b | East | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Gola di San Giorgio | A real roadside crag, you can almost belay from the car in this impressive little gorge. |
Limestone | 900m | 25 | 6a - 7a | All | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Jerzu - Il Castello | Technical wall climbing requiring strong fingers |
Limestone | 100 | 5c - 7b | South West | Italy - Sardinia | |
Italy - Sardinia | Jerzu - Palazzo d'Inverno | Steep climbing on small holds |
Limestone | 750m | 100 | 6a - 8a | South East | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | l'Isola del Tesoro | Excellent, often difficult climbing on steep slabs and walls. L'Isola de Tesoro is set in a beautiful location with magnificent views over the surrounding countryside. |
Limestone | 800m | 60 | 5c - 7c | West | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Lecorci | The steep walls of Lecorci offer lots of good, hard climbing that requires strong fingers and good technique. It is very quickly reached and gets the sun in the morning. |
Limestone | 800m | 70 | Mostly 7a - 8a | East | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Punta Giradili | The impressive 400m cliff south of Punta Giradili and east of the small town of Baunei is one of the best big walls in Sardinia, if not the whole of Italy. |
Limestone | 400m | 10 | 7a - 8a | South West | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Santa Maria Navarese | A small friendly crag right next to the harbour. Well worth a visit. |
Limestone | 0m | 20 | 5a to 6c | South | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Su Casteddu | A huge crag just round the corner from Ulassai. The routes are of excellent quality, and set in a beautiful location. |
Limestone | 800m | 50 | 5c - 8b | West | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Torre del Venti | The big obvious crag behind the grassy Barigau Piazza in Ulassai. Torre dei Venti offers steep wall climbing on small holds. |
Limestone | 800m | 20 | 6b - 8b | East | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Urania | Visible from the road as you drive down towards the lake, Urania is a good looking crag with some very steep bouldery routes. |
Limestone | 400m | 60 | 7b - 8c on the LHS, 6b - 7b on RHS | South West | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sardinia | Villaggio gallico | A pleasant roadside crag near to the coast in beautiful surroundings. Villagico Gallico offers a nice selection of slab and wall climbs, well bolted and in the shade in the afternoon. |
Limestone | 100m | 40 | 5b - 7c | East | Italy - Sardinia |
Italy - Sicily | Grotta Perciata | A steep tufa ridden crag with some excellent routes and a beautiful view. |
Limestone | 200m | 30 | North | Italy - Sicily | |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Bunker | The section of cliff right and left of the prominent white quarried face. It has mostly routes in the 5s and 6s, but there are a few harder routes. |
Limestone | 30m | 100 | 4b - 7b | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Cala Mancina | The North end of the San Vito cliffs is a beautiful area especially around Mancina Bay. |
Limestone | 50m | 100 | 4a - 8b | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - El Bahira | The crags directly behind the camping site |
20m | 100 | 4a _7b | South West | Italy - Sicily | |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Nowhere | The crags between the path leading to the supermarket in San Vito lo Capo and north of the El Bahira campsite. |
Limestone | 30m | 50 | 5a - 7c | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Pietrata | The area that starts above and to the right of the El Bahira Camp site. Lots of excellent climbing in all grades. Perfect in winter, hot in the summer. |
Limestone | 50m | 250 | 4a - 8c | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Pineta | A few hundred metres to the right of the campsite is a beautiful pine forest with some excellent climbing above it. |
Limestone | 50m | 70 | 5a - 8a | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Scomparto Rifiuti | Situated about 400m right of El Bahira camping, the "Waste Sector" has some excellent routes, despite the name. |
Limestone | 100m | 50 | 4b - 7a | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Terra media | The central part of San Vito has a a good seelction of mid grade routes and couple of interesting sectors, in particular Castello is in the shade in the afternoon. |
Limestone | 30m | 50 | 4b - 7a | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Italy - Sicily | San Vito - Torre Isulidda | The sector underneath the conspicuous tower, about 800m right of the camping |
Limestone | 50m | 100 | 5a - 7a | South West | Italy - Sicily |
Region | Crag | Overview | Rock Type | Altitude | Number of routes | Range of Routes | Faces | Name |
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Morocco - Tafraoute | Tafraoute North - Griffon Rock | Griffon rock is set in a beautiful valley, very easy to access and with many fine routes, albeit short by Moroccan standards. |
Quartzite | 1500m | 30 | S - E5 with most routes in the E1 / E2 range | All | Morocco - Tafraoute |
Morocco - Tafraoute | Tafraoute North - Icebox Canyon | Icebox canyon is one of the premier cliffs in the area. Long pitches, atmospheric routes, and beautiful views deep into the Samazar valley combine to give the canyon a big mountain feel. |
Quartzite | 1500m | 30 | HVS - E4 | North | Morocco - Tafraoute |
Morocco - Tafraoute | Tafraoute North - Lower Eagle | The Afantizar valley is a lovely, lonely place to climb, and Lower Eagle an excellent cliff with long routes, getting easier the higher you climb. |
Quartzite | 1500m | 20 | VS - E4 | North West | Morocco - Tafraoute |
Morocco - Tafraoute | Tafraoute North - The Narrow Slit | A small but worthwhile crag with many excellent routes. The Narrow Slit is a deep, dry gorge with climbs on both wings and at the entrance to the gorge. |
Quartzite | 1500m | 10 | HVS - E3 | East | Morocco - Tafraoute |
Morocco - Tafraoute | Tafraoute North - The White Dome | The White Dome is actually a collection of 5 Towers, partly visible from the Tizourgane Kasbah and the road that leads from Ida Ougnidif to the Afantizar valley. |
Quartzite | 1500m | 50 | S - E4, with routes predominately in the E1/E2 range | North West | Morocco - Tafraoute |
Region | Crag | Overview | Rock Type | Altitude | Number of routes | Range of Routes | Faces | Name |
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Spain - Balaguer | Ager - Barranc de Grillons | A large wall in a beautiful setting high above the Ager valley. Barranc de Grillons has mostly technical wall climbing on positive holds, including a few low grade routes. |
Limestone | 1000m | 50 | 4b - 7a, mostly in the 6b to 7a range | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Ager - camp 300 | An excellent crag of high quality rock in a beautiful location. Ager camp 300 has many slab type routes, that sometimes overhang. Bolting is excellent and the routes are up to 30m in length. |
Limestone | 1250m | 60 | 6b - 8b | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Alos de Balaguer - El Raco | A small crag in a beautiful location halfway between Alos de Balaguera and the Noguera Pallaresa dam. |
Limestone | 300m | 25 | 6a to 8a | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Alos de Balaguer - L'Estret | Another easily accessible, well bolted crag. L'estret has sustained slabby routes on the left hand side and overhanging test pieces in the cave on the right. |
Limestone | 300m | 20 | 6a to 8b | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Camarasa - Crestes de Conill South | The Crestes de Conill are a very interesting geological formation. Fins of rock, 50m high, that are not much thicker than your car, giving solid, slabby climbing. |
Limestone | 250m | 30 | 5b - 6c | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Camarasa - Marcant Estil | Camaras is a large climbing area with excellent short and long routes. It does not get the sun until the late afternoon. |
Limestone | 300m | 100 | North West | Spain - Balaguer | |
Spain - Balaguer | Cubells | A nice looking crag, situated at the top of a hill, the routes at Cubells are up to 30m in length and one of the few cliffs in the Balaguera area that give (relatively) low grade as well as mi |
Limestone | 600m | 70 | 5b to 7a | South East | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Os de Balaguer | Os de Balaguer is a small gorge close to the village from which it gets its name. It has mostly technical climbing on sharp incut holds. |
Limestone | 500m | 100 | 6a to 8a | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Santa Ana left bank | Santa Ana is a major climbing area next to the large dam of the river Noguera Ribagorcana which forms the Santa Ana reservoir. The river acts as the border between Catalonia and Aragon. |
Limestone | 200m | 200 | mostly 6a to 8a | All | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Santa Linya - Cova Gran | Cova Gran is one of the most important hard sport climbing crags in the world. Certainly if the density of one pitch hard routes is the measure, it takes a lot of beating. |
Limestone | 250m | 70 | 7b - 9b | South | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Santa Linya - Futbolin | Futbolin is the unlucky little brother of the Cova Grana. Anywhere else it would be heralded as a great crag, here it is overshadowed by its more famous sibling. |
Limestone | 500m | 25 | 6b - 7b | South West | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | St. LLorenc de Montgal | A large climbing area in a beautiful location next to the reservoirs of Panté de Saint LLorenc de Montgal. The crags face south and are a mixture of solid red limestone and conglomerate. |
Limestone | 250m | 200 | All | All | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Tartareu | A long escarpment with hundreds of routes up to 25m in length. It faces east and gets the sun until about 1pm, although this varies a bit according to the sector. |
Limestone | 600m | 200 | Mostly 6a to 8a | East | Spain - Balaguer |
Spain - Balaguer | Terradets - Paret de les Bruixes | Terradets is a very impressive gorge in the Serra del Montsec 40km or so North of Balaguer. Amongst the many big walls is the single pitch sport crag, Paret de les Bruixes. |
Limestone | 400m | 50 | 7a to 9a | South West | Spain - Balaguer |