The route begins in the Spain Park, the center of the town. Nearby is the Cork Museum, which shows the importance of this natural resource for San Vicente de Alcántara, and the Alas Nature Interpretat... (plus +)
The route begins in the Spain Park, the center of the town. Nearby is the Cork Museum, which shows the importance of this natural resource for San Vicente de Alcántara, and the Alas Nature Interpretation Center, dedicated to the dissemination of the environmental values of the Sierra de San Pedro and the tourist office, both worthy of a visit; not forgetting that the town is home to one of the Special Protection Areas for Birds (ZEPA) in Extremadura, where you can enjoy an important colony of lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) and other urban birds during the breeding season.
The route continues along Badajoz Avenue (EX-110) and, meandering south, leaves the urban area taking Magdalena Alley. The landscape is composed of large expanses of cork oak pastureland amidst a granitic outcrop, until it reaches Valdeconejos Alley where the outcrops of this material from the Hercynian orogeny (290-300 million years ago) appear free of vegetation or almost exclusively accompanied by broom, grasses, and digitalis, forming extensive flat areas. It continues along Garzón Alley, an old cattle transit route recovered for hiking and cycling, which advances among cork oaks to the homonymous spring. Here it joins Castaños Alley to subsequently cross the road to La Codosera (BA-132) at the height of the Juan Durán spring, of medieval origin, and reach the sign indicating the end of the itinerary on the Alcornocón path.
The adjacent gate is accessible to visit the Juan Duran I dolmen and the set of anthropomorphic tombs, paying special attention to keeping it closed as it is private property and it is common for loose livestock to be present.
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