ROUTES: 4TH STAGE REGIONAL MIGRATION (LAGO DE OMAÑA – ABELGAS DE LUNA)
Jul 30, 2010 Activities, Castilla y León, Culture, Spain, Mountain, Nature, Leisure, Landscapes, Routes, Hiking, Traditions, Tourism, Tourism, Cultured Tourism, Tourism León, Natural Tourism, Rural Tourism
A while ago I wrote about Regional Migration and more specifically, about a migration made by a farming family from León. We still have one stage left to reach the end of this migration: Lago de Omaña – Albelgas de Luna, the most physically demanding.
Below are links to previous articles on this route provided here as a reference.
Just a note before we begin this next adventure: there is a map and a file of the route which you can download at the end of the article. Please remember that this information is merely representative so if you decide to do this route, we strongly recommend you equip yourselves with a map and compass or GPS.
Tags: Abelgas de Luna, Animal, Animals, Culture, Lago, Lago de Omaña, Mastiff, Spanish Mastiff, Mountain, Mount, Nature, Landscape, Sheepdog, Dogs, Route, Routes, Hiking, Traditions, Seasonal Migration, Regional Seasonal Migration, Tourism, Active Tourism, Tourism León, Natural Tourism, Rural Tourism
VILLAGES: VILLARDECIERVOS.
Mar 22, 2010 Activities, Architecture, Culture, History, Mountain, Nature, Leisure, Landscapes, Villages, Routes, Hiking, Tourism, Tourism, Cultured Tourism, Natural Tourism, Rural Tourism, Holidays, Villages
Villardeciervos belongs to the municipality of Carballeda in Zamora, found in the base of the Sierra de la Culebra mountain range (National Game Reserve).
Villardeciervos is of great historic value and in fact, in 1987 it was declared a Collection of Historic-Artistic buildings. Its well-preserved buildings, numerous fountains, narrow lanes and the Roman way, A Bracara Asturicam, that joins Braga and Astorga (later named XVII Way of Antonio Pío’s route), makes us easily envisage how people would have lived there in the past.
No doubt you’re thinking: How can narrow lanes help us imagine how people lived there in the past? Well, quite a lot, actually, because these lanes were built as camouflage in the days when goods were smuggled over from near-by Portugal.
Tags: Animal, Animals, Architecture, Deer, Roe Deer, Culture, Villardeciervos Culture, History, Villardeciervos History, Wild Boar, Woolf, Iberian Woolf, Mountain, Mount, Nature, Landscape, Villages, Route, Routes, Hiking, Tourism, Cultured Tourism, History Tourism, Natural Tourism, Rural Tourism, Villardeciervos Tourism, Zamora Tourism, Zamora
NATURE: “THE BROWN BEAR”
Jan 27, 2010 Asturias, Castilla y León, Nature, Landscapes, Tourism, Natural Tourism
The brown bear used to exist practically in all the continents of Europe, Asia and a large part of west North America. Unfortunately, as the centuries past, the presence of the brown bear has reduced, although it continues to exist in a sufficiently extensive area today.
The brown bear lives in a variety of habitats, from semi-desert cold climates to coastal areas or even the Arctic tundra. But its habitat par excellence is the forest and it is one of the most common mammals to be found in Siberian or Scandinavian taiga conifer forests, or in mixed-type forests in eastern Europe and the Pyrenees, or in deciduous beech, oak and birch forests along the Cantabrian Chain. The few bear populations that exist in Western Europe are found in the highest mountain massifs where human presence is slight.
Tags: Animal, Animals, Animals Danger Extinction, Asturias, Cantabrian Chain, Cantabrian Chain Fauna, Nature, Bear, Brown Bear, Pirineos, Tourism, Natural Tourism