PR-7 Trilho da Calçada – Montesinho Natural Park

We start from the granite village of Moimenta in the Montesinho Natural Park. It is a perfectly signposted route PR-7 Trilho da Calçada – Montesinho Natural Park. You can have all the info in his post. Moimenta is the starting and finishing point of our circular route. The route runs…

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PR-3 Porto Furado – Parque Natural de Montesinho

The route circulates perfectly signposted through the Montesinho Natural Park, in the nerdy eastern part of Portugal, bordering Spain. We leave the small village of Montesinho, which gives its name to this mountain range, and we will follow the marks of the PR-3 Porto Furado. The route is circular and…

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Penha Garcia – PR 3 IDN Mills and fossils

This time we are in Penha Garcia. Una Penha García is a Portuguese parish of the council of Idanha-a-Nova and, in turn, belonging to the district of Castelo Branco. To reference it in front of Spain, we can say that it is, horizontally, after the Sierra de Gata. It is…

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Sierra de Gata – Descargamaría & Robledillo de Gata

We start another route through the Sierra de Gata. Specifically from Descargarmaría, in the Valley of the Árrago River, in the Tajo hydrographic basin. Although, together with Robledillo de Gata, Downloadmaría is one of the only two municipalities in Extremadura that have part of their territory in the Duero hydrographic…

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Majalasna – Camino Schmid – Alevines trail

We start the route at the Las Dehesas car park in Cercedilla and start walking along the Calzada Borbónica-Cañada de la Fuenfría. Further up, once we enter the limits of the Guadarrama National Park, we take the Camino Schmid that goes up us crossing the Calzada Romana and the GR-10…

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Camorritos – Acebos Fountain – Dragon Petroglyph

We start the route in Colonia de Camorritos, located in Cercedilla, a pioneering urban initiative in Madrid in the 1930s, and created to satisfy the growing demand for weekend leisure since that time. As an anecdote, it was inhabited by famous people such as César Manrique, Pedro Caba, Emilio Botín…

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Molino de la Hoz-Torrelodones-Canal del Guadarrama

We start the route in Molino de la Hoz and go up the Camino de La Isabela that takes us up to Torrelodones. We pass the train track through the oak when it is buried at the height of the Gasco and there we take the Senda Las Marías that…

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Cuerda Larga Nocturna – Sierra de Guadarrama

The Cuerda Larga is one of the main mountainous branches of the Sierra de Guadarrama with a maintained height of more than 2,100 meters above sea level. And in its night version, a classic in the summer season and more specifically around the Summer Solstice, when the day is longer…

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Azohia – Picadera Arch

We start the route at Azohía beach and follow the GR-92 northwards, leaving the sea on our right. After the first steep climb, we arrive at the Santa Elena Tower, also known as the La Azohia Tower, it is one of the towers designed in the 16th century within the…

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Valle Las Batuecas – El Chorro de las Batuecas

We start the route from the Valle de las Batuecas car park, located at PK 34.5 of the SA-201 road. And we began to walk along the Accessible Path of the Valle de las Batuecas. It is a walkway that connects the car park with the Monastery of Las Batuecas.…

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