This journey offers the opportunity to explore some of the most characteristic dolmens from the extensive representation that the megalithic culture has in the area. It starts at the Parque de España ... (plus +)
This journey offers the opportunity to explore some of the most characteristic dolmens from the extensive representation that the megalithic culture has in the area. It starts at the Parque de España heading towards the Cork Museum, a great place to learn about the influence of this material or the industrial processes of this manufacture that arrived in San Vicente de Alcántara in the mid-19th century and continues to this day as one of its main economic activities, concentrating a good part of the Extremaduran production and therefore the Spanish one.
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 via the Malpaso road to take the Aceña de la Borrega road, where the landscape of olive groves gradually gives way to patches of cork oak and scrubland in a granitic environment with large formations of this material exposed during the Hercynian orogeny (290 -300 m. a.).
It continues through the Morera area, entering the limits of the special conservation area for birds (ZEPA Nacimiento del Río Gévora) to reach the turnoff to the hermitage of Ntra Sra. de la Cabeza, a path not included in the route but signposted for all those who want to visit it.
From this point, the path descends to traverse the southern margin 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, which pours its waters into the Alcorneo stream, a basin included in the Natura 2000 Network as a site of community importance (LIC Río Gévora Alto) to cross it and reach the end of the itinerary.
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