El Cabaco-Peña de Francia-El Casarito-Nava de Francia

We start the route in the municipality of El Cabaco, located in the upper basin of the Yeltes River, at the foot of the Peña de Francia. The Cabaco is included in the Batuecas National Hunting Reserve. And it is the gateway to the Las Batuecas-Sierra de Francia Natural Park and the Biosphere Reserve.

Today’s route is the result of the union of two PRs. The first is PR-SA 8 El Cabaco – Peña Francia. We start walking along the road that goes to El Maíllo, and we take a detour through the La Dehesa Recreational Area.

We continue along the forest track between a leafy oak grove. Further on we find the remains of a Roman settlement, discovered a few years ago, here the foundations of the buildings are preserved.

Following the path, we pass a small irrigation reservoir on the right and further on, more remains of restored Roman mining activities.

We then cross a road and there begins the ascent, each time more pronounced, towards the Peña de Francia, the final objective of the route; After leaving the track we were following, we entered the stretch of path that ascends between oak groves and heaths, already observing, in the last clearings, a close-up of the Peña de Francia before entering the hillside oak groves that lead us to the GR path. -10, already in a high area of La Peña.

From this point on, the path is cobbled and the dominant vegetation turns into brooms and some small trees such as the hunter’s rowan, already typical of the high mountains, and the quarry formed by the erosion of the quartzite rock on the ridges also stand out.

We continue through the viacrucis. The trail ends at the Mirador de la Peña, where we have one of the most spectacular views of the province and the north of Extremadura, as well as the visit that can be made to the Peña de Francia Sanctuary.

We make the descent following the indications of the PR-SA 9 El Cabaco – Nava de Francia – El Casarito – Peña Francia. We make our way through the viacrucis and join the GR-10. We go down the path, shortening the curves of the road and leaving the GR that goes to La Alberca to continue along the PR towards Casarito. And from there to Nava de Francia and along the track it returns us to Cabaco.

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Total distance: 24221 m
Max elevation: 1690 m
Total climbing: 864 m
Total time: 09:16:10

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