If you have been thinking about making a sustainable getaway for some time, either cycling or on foot, and you feel like exploring unique natural landscapes... Get started with the Senda del Oso, the Tajuña and the Alcaraz Greenways. Enjoy authentic landscape richness on routes representative of the local plant and animal life.
This greenway will surprise you with its 36 kilometres and 14 protected natural areas less than five kilometres from its route. The most famous one is Las Ubiñas-La Mesa Natural Park. It brims with beech, yew and holly forests, and has views of the Pliegues and Mantos region and the Central Carboniferous basin. You can start the route from Entrago, in the Teverga valley, and surrounded by the sounds of the Trubia riverbed. You will gradually uncover the nature of northern Spain. Vertiginous walls, leafy forests and authentic green mantles. You will find it interesting to walk where a mining train used to pass.In addition, you can visit cultural heritage sites along the way. For example, the pre-Romanesque churches of La Plaza and Tuñón or the beautiful medieval Bandujo village.
Perfect for an outing with the family, the Tajuña Greenway, which connects the towns of Arganda del Rey and Yebra, in Guadalajara. It is a very easy route to do by bike or skates, as it has a paved road in the section between Arganda and Morata de Tajuña. You will find the start at the La Poveda Railway Museum, just four kilometres from Arganda station. Take this chance to visit the museum and learn about the history of the local trains.The route goes through a magnificent regional park around the lower courses of the Manzanares and Jarama rivers. And also through the moors to the southwest of Madrid, where you will find extensive wetlands and see marsh and water birds resting. Between oak forests, hundreds of yellow broom flowers and cereal crops on the plains of the moor, you will discover how the plant and animal life enrich this location, and your memories.
Take the Sierra de Alcaraz Greenway, which is actually two spectacular stretches. One spanning 74 kilometres and another of approximately 19. The difference is that the first guides you between the impressive basins of the Jardín and Cubillo rivers, the Laguna Strict Natural Reserve and the Laguna del Arquillo and Sierra de Alcaraz Natural Monument. And the second section surprises with the Sierra de Cazorla Nature Reserve, in addition to the Rumblar, Guadalén and Guadalmena basins. You will see with your own eyes what an authentic fairytale route looks like: the path is part of the Don Quixote route, an itinerary that follows in the footsteps of the protagonist of the novel “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha” by Miguel de Cervantes. Like him, you will weave your path between pine and oak forests, tunnels, bridges and farm fields. Get ready to live his adventures and discover lands that will leave you speechless.
