European long-distance hiking trail E4

European long-distance hiking trail E4
Sign of the European long-distance hiking trail Pyrénées-Jura-Balaton (part of the long-distance hiking trail E4), Gibstorfer Horn, Gibstorf , Switzerland
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Starting point	Cape St. Vincent 37 ° 1 ′ 21.4 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 48.2 ″  W.
Target point	Acheleia , Cyprus 34 ° 44 ′ 20.8 "  N , 32 ° 28 ′ 58.3"  E

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The European long-distance hiking trail E4 is part of the European hiking trail network and is intended to connect the most south-westerly point of the European continent ( Cape St. Vincent in Portugal ) in a large arc through western central Europe with the island of Cyprus in the south-east .

course

Today the route runs on the Iberian Peninsula from Tarifa at the southern tip of Spain along the Catalan coast to the Pyrenees , which it crosses east of Andorra .

The route reaches Lake Constance via France and Switzerland . From the national border near the La Dôle summit , the long-distance hiking trail follows the Jura ridge to Dielsdorf, north of Zurich, along the Swiss Jura High Trail . In Switzerland, the E4 is sometimes marked with an additional sign to the yellow path markings that are usual there (name: Pyrenées - Jura - Balaton).

In the alpine border area between Germany and Austria , two levels of difficulty are offered. The German pre-Alpine variant mostly coincides with the Maximiliansweg . In the further course to the Neusiedlersee there are also two variants: The alpine variant follows the Nordalpenweg 01 , the pre- alpine variant follows the Voralpenweg 04 and from Vienna the Eastern Austrian borderland path 07 .

The Hungarian section of the trail runs from Kőszeg to Sátoraljaújhely together with the Országos Kéktúra or from Budapest to Sátoraljaújhely together with the Eisenach – Budapest mountain hiking trail . The Hungarian section from Sátoraljaújhely to Nagykereki runs on the route of Alföldi Kéktúra .

So far, the description of the European Trekking Association ends at the Romanian border, but the tour can be continued from Oradea to Gura Văii on the route of the E3 , where you reach the Serbian part of the E4.

The Serbian section leads from the Hungarian-Serbian border at Srpski Krstur on the Tisza over the Iron Gate of the Danube to Gradinje near Dimitrovgrad .

Another, only partially marked section of the long-distance hiking trail leads through Bulgaria and the Peloponnese ( Greece ), over the island of Crete to Cyprus .

With a total length of approximately 10,450 km, the E4 is by far the longest of all European long-distance hiking trails.

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360 ° panorama on the E4 on the Schadona Pass at the Biberacher Hut . Left the Rothorn, right the Hochkünzelspitze

literature

• Rolf Roost: Greece: E4 - Peloponnes , Conrad Stein Verlag , ISBN 978-3-86686-221-0
• Jonas Bublak: E4 Crete: Lefka Ori and Lasithi , Conrad Stein Verlag , ISBN 978-3-86686-088-9

Web links

Wikivoyage: E4 European long distance path  - travel guide

• Openstreetmap map
• The E4 in the Outdoorwiki
• European long-distance hiking trail E4 , Austrian Alpine Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Jürgen Gorges: E4 Gibraltar – Pyrenees – Bodensee – Balaton – Rila – Crete . In: European hiking association (Hrsg.): On tour in Europe - The manual for the European long-distance hiking trails . Deutscher Wanderverlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-8134-0338-6 .
2. ↑ Ralf Sudrigian: 683 kilometers on the E3 through the West Mountains and the Banat Mountains. In: General German newspaper for Romania. December 17, 2014, accessed February 29, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Transylvanian Carpathian Association: E3 & E8. In: www.skv.ro. Retrieved December 19, 2017 (Romanian). 
4. ↑ Branislav Božović, Boris Mićić, Momčilo Vuković, Veroljub Kovačević: Through Serbia with an easy step. Hiking trails E4 and E7 . Ed .: European Ramblers Association . Planinarski Savez Srbije, Belgrade 2011. (also in English)

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