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| SAN ESTEBAN DEL VALLE |
| It is now a small village of 900 inhabitants. Save even enough remains of its traditional architecture and there is, at present, a strong tendency to regain that identity at home and "cotan" (small squares). The landscape that surrounds it is spectacular for its variety and freshness chestnuts, figs, grapes, olive, pine, oak, cherry and all with the permanent fund of the highest peaks of Gredos. |
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| FIVE RAVINE VILLAS |
| El Barranco de Las Cinco Villas is a valley collected. Save five towns steeped in history: San Esteban del Valle, Cuevas del Valle, Santa Cruz del Valle, Villarejo del Valle and La Villa de Mombeltrán. The existence of rich meadows in the upper part of Gredos, which remain green throughout the year, Glen became the natural pass between the northern plateau and the southern plateau, and its traffic and importance, a Roman road was built this next to meet two thousand years. You can go on a tour of hours. There are hiking trails that cross the ravine. |
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SAW GREDOS |
Gredos Regional Park, is legally protected to preserve the wealth of fauna and flora it contains.
The landscape is extremely varied. The Sierra de Gredos Tietar boot from the 300 meters in altitude, reaching nearly 2600 meters peak Mansur. The abundance of water and the wall of protection that the saw, makes landscapes that we find impossible.
Within a few miles snuff cultures coexist and paprika, orange or cacti, with alpine meadows of the mountains, joined by the luxuriance and freshness of forests and meadows in the valleys between.
The species that best defines the Sierra de Gredos is the
ibex(Capra pyrenaica victoriae) for which the population can exceed current 6,500. He almost disappear at the beginning of last century and the intervention of Alfonso XIII when only a dozen specimens was reversed.
Other important species are the wild cat, otter, civet cat, the Iberian lynx, the imperial eagle, black storks and common black vulture, the vulture, the kite, short-toed eagles, and dark green lizard mountain lizard. |
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