This journey offers the opportunity to visit some of the most characteristic dolmens in the extensive representation that the megalithic culture has in the area. It begins at the Parque de España head... (plus +)

This journey offers the opportunity to visit some of the most characteristic dolmens in the extensive representation that the megalithic culture has in the area. It begins at the Parque de España heading towards the Cork Museum, a good place to learn about the influence of this material or the industrial processes of this manufacturing that arrived in San Vicente de Alcántara in the mid-19th century and remains to this day as one of its main economic activities, concentrating a large part of the production in Extremadura and therefore in Spain. A few meters from the museum is the Alas Nature Interpretation Center, dedicated to the dissemination of environmental values in the Sierra de San Pedro and a tourist information office. The route leaves the town along the Malpaso path to take the Aceña de la Borrega path, where the landscape of olive crops gives way to patches of cork oak and shrubland in a granitic environment with large formations of this material emerged during the Hercynian orogeny at (290-300 m. a.). It continues through the area of La Morera entering the limits of the special conservation area for birds (ZEPA Nacimiento del Río Gévora) to reach the detour to the hermitage of Ntra Sra. de la Cabeza, a route not included in the itinerary but signposted for those who want to visit it. From this point, the path descends to travel along the southern edge of the granitic batholith where the dolmens Cajirón II and I, El Mellizo, and finally Data I and II are located. It follows the bank of the Mellizos stream that pours its waters into the Alcorneo stream, a basin included in the Natura 2000 Network as a site of community importance (SCI Río Gévora Alto) to cross it and reach the end of the itinerary.
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