THE SIERRAS OF EXTREMADURA
by Gisela Radant Wood
JUNIPER HOUSE, MURLEY MOSS,
OXENHOLME ROAD, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA9 7RL
About the Author
Gisela Radant Wood is a walker, writer, photographer, avid reader and passionate about Extremadura. She has lived in the Sierra de Montánchez for the past 10 years and walks there on a regular basis. Home is a finca outside the village of Almoharín with a husband, a dog, seven sheep, occasional lambs, four hens and 150 olive trees. Ten years ago Gisela set up the website www.walkingextremadura.com and is actively involved in promoting the area as a walking paradise. This is her second book about walking in Extremadura.
Gisela loves the social side of walking with friends in the Almoharín walking group, but really prefers the quiet of walking alone in the countryside she loves.
© Gisela Radant Wood 2017
First edition 2017
ISBN: 978 1 85284 848 4
Printed by KHL Printing, Singapore
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Contains OpenStreetMap.org data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. NASA relief data courtesy of ESRI
All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.
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Front cover: Trevejo Castle dominates the small village of Trevejo in the western Sierra de Gata
CONTENTS
THE NORTHERN SIERRAS: THE SISTEMA CENTRAL
Walk 1 San Martín de Trevejo and the Sierra de Eljas
Walk 3 Puerto de Castilla and Pico Jañona
Walk 4 Castillo de Almenara and the Sierra de las Jañonas
Walk 5 Robledillo de Gata and Ovejuela
Sierra de Béjar
Walk 6 La Garganta and El Nevero
Walk 7 La Muela and the forest track
Walk 8 The valley route to La Muela
Sierra de Gredos
Walk 9 Cascadas Nogaleas in the Montes de Tras la Sierra
Walk 10 Los Pilones and Puente Sacristán
Walk 11 Jerte to Puente Nuevo in the Sierra de Tormantos
Walk 12 Puente los Papúos in the Montes de Tras la Sierra
Walk 13 The Jaranda valley
Walk 14 Guijo de Santa Bárbara and El