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"\\|\/\r\nWe have a series of routes through the areas that we propose HERE. If you are interested in any of them, contact us in the FORM.\r\n \r\nAnd if you are attracted to another area in particular, also contact us in the FORM and we will organize a new customized route.\r\n \r\nYou can also get in touch at:mariaparenaza@singular-spain.comTel. +(34) 629 35 36 96 Madrid, Spain\r\n \r\n\\|\/\r\n\r\n\r\nThe data collected in this FORM is to be in contact with you and send you information related to Singular Spain. For more information review our Privacy Policy. You can change your mind at any time by writing to mariaparenaza@singular-spain.com.\r\n\r\n\r\n\\|\/.\\|\/CONTACT\\|\/FORM\\|\/\r\n\r\n\r\nResponsible\r\nwww.singularspain.com.es is an Internet domain owned by SINGULAR SPAIN, hereinafter the COMPANY.\r\nIn accordance with article 10 of Law 34\/2002, of July 11, on \"Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce (LSSI)\" and RDL (Royal Decree Law) 23\/2018, informs that the company in charge of the management and operation of the website is:\r\nCommercial name: SINGULAR SPAIN\r\nName: María Pérez de Arenaza Lamana\r\nNIF: 07234103M\r\nAddress: C\/Valderrey, 35\r\nDomain name: www.singularspain.com.es\r\nEmail: mariaparenaza@singular-spain.com\r\nTelephone: 629353696\r\nActivity: Combined Travel Agency\r\n \r\nLegislation\r\nUse and user access\r\nThe User is informed and accepts that access to this website does not imply, in any way, the beginning of a commercial relationship with the COMPANY.\r\nThe user undertakes to use the website in accordance with the law, this Legal Notice and the requirements of good faith, using the appropriate diligence to the nature of the service they enjoy, without incurring in activities that may be considered illicit or illegal, that infringe the rights of the COMPANY or third parties, or that may damage, disable, overload or impair the service or prevent its normal use.\r\nSpecifically and with a merely illustrative character, the user must refrain from:\r\n* Reproduce, copy, distribute, make available, publicly communicate, transform or modify the contents of the page except in those cases authorized by law or expressly consented to by the COMPANY or by the third party that, where appropriate, holds the exploitation rights over them.\r\n* Reproduce or copy for private use the contents that deserve the consideration of software or Databases in accordance with current legislation, as well as communicate them publicly or make them available to third parties.\r\n* Use the contents of the website for any type of advertising or promotional activity and, in particular, for sending unsolicited emails (spam) or similar communication.\r\n \r\nIntellectual and Industrial Property\r\nAll content displayed on the page (texts, graphics, photographs, logos, designs, source codes, audiovisual or sound content, etc.) are subject to intellectual property rights owned by the COMPANY or third parties who have authorized their inclusion on the page.\r\nAny exploitation of all or part of the content of the page, carried out in any way or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, is strictly prohibited. Violation of these rights may lead to the initiation of judicial, civil or criminal proceedings.\r\nResponsibility of the company\r\nThe COMPANY does everything possible to avoid any error in relation to the contents of this web page.\r\n \r\nThe COMPANY adopts the necessary measures and mechanisms to guarantee the security of communications and transactions that occur through the web portal.\r\n The COMPANY will not be responsible for possible damages or losses that could be derived from interferences, omissions, interruptions, computer viruses, telephone breakdowns or disconnections in the operational functioning of this electronic system, caused by causes beyond the control of the company.\r\nNor will it be responsible for delays or blockages in the use of this electronic system caused by deficiencies or overloads of telephone lines, overloads in the Internet system or other electronic systems.\r\nThe COMPANY does not guarantee the veracity nor is it responsible for the consequences that may arise from errors in the content provided by third parties that may appear on this web page.\r\nThe COMPANY does not assume any responsibility for the information contained in third-party web pages that can be accessed by \"links\" or links from any web page owned by the COMPANY. The presence of \"links\" or links on the COMPANY's web pages is for informational purposes only and in no case does it imply a suggestion, invitation or recommendation about them. \r\n\r\nApplicable law\r\nIn general, the relations between the COMPANY and the Users of the services present on this website are subject to Spanish legislation and jurisdiction.\r\nThis Legal Notice is governed by Spanish law.\r\nThe information that appears on this web page is current on the date of its last update, May 20, 2022.\r\nThe COMPANY reserves the right to unilaterally update, modify or eliminate said information without prior notice. All content displayed on the page (texts, graphics, photographs, logos, designs, source codes, audiovisual or sound content, etc.) are subject to intellectual property rights owned by the COMPANY or third parties that have authorized its inclusion on the page. Any exploitation of all or part of the content of the page, carried out in any way or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, is strictly prohibited. Violation of these rights may lead to the initiation of judicial, civil or criminal proceedings.\r\n\r\n\r\n\\|\/\r\n\r\n\r\nBasic information on Data Protection\r\nIn accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016\/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of April 27, 2016 (RGPD), the Traveler accepts that the personal data provided, is this website, by the interested party himself@ (NEWSLETTER , CONTACT, FORMS for the organization of the Routes, and TRANSFERS and BILLING for the management of the contracted Route), as well as those that may be provided in the future for the same purpose, are collected and processed by the agency SINGULAR SPAIN.\r\n \r\nPeople under 18 years of age will not be able to register.\r\n \r\nThe data of those people who have contracted a trip may be communicated in those cases in which the regulations require it and also to airlines and other means of transport, as well as to hotel and other accommodation entities for the purposes described in this policy. Outside of the previously described assumption, no transfers will be made.\r\n \r\nAnyone has the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not SINGULAR SPAIN is processing personal data that concerns them.\r\n \r\nInterested persons have the right to access their personal data, as well as to request the rectification of inaccurate data or, where appropriate, request its deletion when, among other reasons, the data is no longer necessary for the purposes that were collected.\r\n \r\nThe interested party who sends the information to SINGULAR SPAIN guarantees and is responsible, in any case, for the accuracy, validity and authenticity of the personal data provided and undertakes to keep them duly updated, exonerating the Agency from any responsibility in this regard. The Traveler agrees to provide complete and correct information in the registration forms.\r\n \r\nIn certain circumstances, the interested parties may request the limitation of the processing of their data, in which case we will only keep them for the exercise or defense of claims.\r\n \r\nThose interested may oppose the processing of their data. SINGULAR SPAIN will stop processing the data, except for compelling legitimate reasons or the exercise or defense of possible claims.\r\n \r\nThe interested party has the right to file a claim with the Control Authority if they consider that the treatment does not comply with current regulations.\r\n \r\nThese data have been collected by the SINGULAR SPAIN agency in order to manage and develop the set of services stipulated on this website.\r\n \r\nThe affected party may exercise the rights recognized in the GDPR and, in particular, those of access, limitation, rectification, deletion, opposition and oblivion, through a letter that may be addressed to the registered office of the SINGULAR SPAIN agency at the address indicated in the Legal Notice, or in the email address mariaparenaza@singular-spain.com.\r\n \r\nCommon use with social networks\r\nIf the data subject chooses to access the Services through their account on social networks (i.e. Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram or another social network) or clicks on one of the connection buttons or social network links (for example, the Facebook \"Like\" button) that are available on the Services, your content and personal information will be shared with the corresponding social networks.\r\n \r\nSINGULAR SPAIN reserves the right to modify this policy to adapt it to new legislation or jurisprudence. In such cases, SINGULAR SPAIN will announce on this page the changes introduced with reasonable anticipation of their implementation.\r\n \r\nResponsible\r\n \r\nWe inform you that the personal data provided through the forms or other use derived from browsing SINGULAR SPAIN, as well as your email address, are included in a data processing property of SINGULAR SPAIN.\r\nThe person in charge of the management and operation of the web is María Pérez de Arenaza and contact email: mariaparenaza@singular-spain.com.\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\\|\/\r\n\r\n\r\nThe domain www.singularspain.com.es (with the SINGULAR SPAIN brand) uses automatic Cookie collection procedures to collect personal information, such as the type of browser or operating system, referring page, route, ISSP domain, etc. This helps us to adapt this website to your personal needs and promote a better user experience.\r\n \r\n \r\nWhat are Cookies?\r\n \r\nA cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc) when you visit almost any web page.\r\n \r\nThe usefulness of the cookie is that the web you visit remembers your visit when you return to browse it, so that it facilitates navigation and helps you. In other words, as a web page it helps us to improve quality, thus allowing us to customize the navigation of each particular user to a certain extent.\r\n \r\nAlthough many people don't know it, cookies have been used for decades. In addition, they are currently essential for the operation of the Internet, providing innumerable advantages in the provision of interactive services and facilitating navigation.\r\n \r\nRemember that cookies cannot harm your equipment and that, in return, the fact that they are activated helps the person in charge of the web to identify and resolve errors and thus improve navigation on it, providing a better experience for web users.\r\n \r\n \r\nWhat is not a Cookie?\r\nIt is not a virus, nor a trojan, nor a worm, nor spam, nor spyware, nor does it open pop-up windows.\r\n \r\n \r\nWhat information does a cookie store?\r\nCookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit card or bank details, photographs, your ID or personal information.\r\n \r\nThe data they save is of a technical nature, personal preferences, content customization, etc. For example, the language with which you browse or the size of the font.\r\n \r\nThe web server does not associate you as a person, but your web browser. In fact, if, for example, you regularly browse with Firefox and try to browse the same website with other browsers, such as Microsoft Edge or Chrome, you will see that the website does not realize that you are the same person, because it is actually associating you with the browser.\r\n \r\n \r\nWhat kind of Cookies are there?\r\nCookies, depending on the time they remain installed, can be divided into session or permanent cookies. The former expire when the user closes the browser. The second ones expire when the objective for which they are used is fulfilled or when they are manually deleted.\r\n \r\nIn addition, depending on their purpose, cookies can be classified as follows:\r\n \r\n1) Required or technical cookies: are those strictly necessary and essential for the proper functioning of the website. They are normally generated when the user accesses the website or logs in.\r\nThey allow, among other things, to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous user and a registered user are browsing, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic website.\r\nIn addition, they keep the user identified, so that, if they leave the website and access it again at another time, the browser or device will continue to identify that user, thus facilitating navigation without having to identify themselves again.\r\nIn the same way, these Cookies are also used to check if the user is authorized to access certain services or areas of the website.\r\n \r\n2) Preference cookies: They allow the recording of all information related to the way the website behaves or its appearance, such as the language used or the region from which it is accessed.\r\n \r\n3) Statistical \/ analytical cookies: They are used to analyze and improve the browsing experience, optimize the operation of the website, and see how visitors interact. They collect information about the type of navigation you are doing, the sections you use the most, the products consulted, the usual time zone, language, etc.\r\n 4) Marketing: These Cookies are used so that, in the spaces of the websites, videos or social networks reserved for advertising, advertisements appear that may be of interest to you, and not just any random advertisement. This possible interest is deducted based on your browsing preferences, your country of origin or language. They are also those Cookies that collect information about the advertisements shown to the users of the website.\r\n \r\n5) Geolocation: These Cookies are used to locate the country or region in which the user who accesses a website service is located, so that they can offer content or services appropriate to their location.\r\n \r\n \r\nWhat are own cookies and those of third parties?\r\nOwn cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting and third-party cookies are those generated by external services or providers, such as Facebook, Twitter or Google.\r\n \r\n \r\nWhat happens if I disable Cookies?\r\nSo that you understand the scope that disabling cookies can have, some examples are shown:\r\nYou will not be able to share content from this website on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.\r\nThe website will not be able to adapt the contents to your personal preferences, as is usually the case in online stores.\r\nYou will not be able to access the personal area of ​​that website, such as My account, or My profile or My orders.\r\nOnline stores: You will not be able to make purchases digitally. They will have to be by phone or by visiting the physical store, if it has one.\r\nIt will not be possible to customize your geographic preferences such as time zone, currency or language.\r\nThe website will not be able to perform web analytics on visitors and web traffic, which will make it difficult for the website to be competitive.\r\nYou will not be able to write on the blog, you will not be able to upload photos, post comments, rate or rate content. The web will also not be able to know if you are a human or an automated application that publishes spam.\r\nIt will not be possible to display personalized advertising or by sectors, which will reduce the advertising revenue of the web.\r\nAll social networks use cookies. If you deactivate them you will not be able to use any social network.\r\n \r\n \r\nCan cookies be deleted?\r\nThe answer is yes. And not only delete, but also block, in a general or particular way for a specific domain.\r\n \r\nTo delete cookies from a specific website you must go to your browser settings and there you can search for those associated with that domain and delete their cookies.\r\n \r\n \r\nDeactivation or elimination of cookies\r\nAt any time you can exercise your right to deactivate or eliminate cookies from this website. These actions are performed differently depending on the browser you are using.\r\n \r\n \r\nConfiguration and management of cookies\r\nFor more information about the personalized configuration of cookies or to access the activation, restriction and\/or disabling options, you can go to the help section of your browser, to learn more:\r\n \r\nGoogle Chrome\r\nhttp:\/\/support.google.com\/chrome\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647\r\nMozilla Firefox\r\nhttps:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/es\/kb\/Deshabilitar%20cookies%20de%20terceros\r\nApple Safari\r\nhttp:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ph5042\r\nMicrosoft Edge\r\nhttps:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-edge\/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09\r\nInternet Explorer\r\nhttp:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/es-es\/help\/17442\/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nCookies Policy and Information Update\r\nThe person in charge of this website can modify this Cookies Policy based on legislative or regulatory requirements, or in order to adapt this policy to the instructions issued.\r\n \r\nThis policy and information about cookies has been drafted and updated on April 18, 2022. \r\n\r\n\r\n\\|\/\r\n\r\n\r\nAcceptance\r\nAcceptance by the Traveler of the general conditions and package travel contract detailed here is considered when the Traveler has read the Pre-contractual Agreement with the Trip information, has paid for the trip reservation, and delivers this Travel Contract SIGNED Combined.\r\n\r\nThe pre-contractual information sent to the traveler will form part of the Combined Travel Contract, it will include the special needs of the Traveler, accepted by the Agency and will not be modified, except by agreement of both parties.\r\n\r\nBefore the Contract is signed, the Agency will notify the traveler of all changes to the pre-contractual information. And information about commissions, surcharges or other additional costs.\r\n\r\nThese conditions are mandatory for both parties.\r\n \r\nIn the event of any claim, the Agency and the Traveler submit to the Consumer Arbitration Board of the consumer's domicile.\r\n \r\nScope\r\nThese general conditions will apply to all package tours organized by SINGULAR SPAIN and\/or under the SINGULAR SPAIN trademark, regardless of the way in which they have been contracted.\r\n\r\nLegal Regime\r\nThese General Conditions are subject to the provisions of Book IV of Royal Legislative Decree 1\/2007, of November 16, which approves the consolidated text of the General Law for the Defense of Consumers and Users and other complementary laws and other provisions in force.\r\nThe limitation period for the rights recognized in Book IV of Royal Legislative Decree 1\/2007, of November 16, will be two years.\r\n\r\nThe Traveler will enjoy all the rights that apply within the framework of the European Union to package tours. The SINGULAR SPAIN Agency will be fully responsible for the correct execution of the combined trip as a whole.\r\n\r\nOrganizer Data\r\nThe Organization of the combined trips included in this digital platform has been carried out by SINGULAR SPAIN with NIF 07234103M and address at c\/Valderrey, 35, 28039 MADRID and with license CICMA 4364 from the Registry of Tourism Companies.\r\nWhen the trip contracted by the Traveler had a different organizer, its details will be indicated in the technical file\/travel contract that is provided to the Traveler at the time of signing the contract.\r\n\r\nSINGULAR SPAIN is the Agency responsible for the correct execution of all the travel services included in the contract, in accordance with article 161, and is obliged to provide assistance if the traveler is in difficulty in accordance with article 163.2 \r\n\r\nYou can contact the Agency at any time at the following number +34 629 35 36 96.\r\n​\r\nParticular features of the package travel service\r\nThe itineraries are designed by SINGULAR SPAIN. The Agency is in charge of offering information about the PROGRAM with its PRICE (what is included and what is not included), DATES, ITINERARY, CONDITIONS, CONTRACT, and information about traveler INSURANCE and Cancellation Policy.\r\n\r\nThe Routes can be done:-\r\n- In a van or minibus with a driver + accompanying guide, who will be in charge of coordinating the trip and resolving any incident that may arise along the way.\r\n- In your own car or in a rental car + accompanying guide.\r\n- In your own car or in a rental car and without an accompanying guide, when it is a closed group of friends or family.\r\n Each case will have a different budget. \r\n\r\nPackage Booking Process\r\n1. Request for information on a trip by the client. In order for the Agency to proceed to send any information, the interested party must provide the following information: name, surname, telephone, email and ID.\r\n \r\nThe Traveler must communicate if they require special needs and these must be accepted by the Agency.\r\n \r\n2. The Agency will prepare and send a personalized budget according to the number of places available, guaranteeing the conditions reflected in it.\r\nThe information includes: itinerary, technical sheet and pre-contract, either in durable physical or digital support.\r\n \r\n3. By depositing the RESERVATION, the Traveler confirms and accepts the combined travel offer prepared by the Agency and the general conditions reflected in this document. This document acquires contractual validity, binding both parties in compliance with the conditions established.\r\n \r\nThe reservation will be 50% of the total price of the trip, which includes management and cancellation fees in the event of a cancellation that is not covered by insurance. Cancellation fees correspond to those that could affect the rates negotiated as a group with the providers.\r\n \r\nIf the Traveler rejects, without any justification, their willingness to travel once the reservation deposit has been made, the Cancellation Policy that is included in each Route will come into force and that the Agency will notify the Traveler in the Pre-contract \r\n \r\nThe place on the trip is only guaranteed when the Agency receives the Reservation deposit. In addition to the initial deposit, you must provide the rest of the data requested in compliance with art. 5 of the Organic Law 3\/2018, and a copy of the DNI. All your documents are in order: valid ID, passport and health card. When traveling through European Union countries, we recommend carrying a European Health Card. It is VERY IMPORTANT that when making the reservation, your name and first surname appear correctly, as it appears on your documentation. Any problem caused by an error in the transmission of information will be the responsibility of the passenger.\r\n \r\nOnce the Reservation is received and CONFIRMED by the Agency, the amount delivered will be charged to the price of the trip.\r\n \r\nIf the consumer requests the preparation of a TAILOR-MADE PACKAGE, the Agency may require payment of an amount for the preparation of the project. If the consumer accepts the combined travel offer prepared by the Agency, and the latter can confirm the services it includes, this amount delivered will be charged to the price of the trip. \r\n \r\n4. Once the Reservation is confirmed, the Agency will begin to take the necessary steps to obtain from each supplier the confirmation of the travel services that appear on this WEB. The Agency reserves the possibility of modifying this information before the perfection of the contract. In the event that any of these services cannot be confirmed due to lack of availability, the Agency will offer another service with similar characteristics. To be valid, changes in said information must have been clearly communicated in writing to the consumer.\r\n \r\n5. Once the FINAL OFFER and the changes proposed by the Agency, if any, have been accepted, the Traveler will be given the combined travel CONTRACT for his signature. In the event that the Traveler rejects the possible changes proposed by the Agency, the amount deposited to date will be refunded, if any.\r\n \r\n6. Delivery of documentation\r\nAs the day of the beginning of the activity approaches, and after having formalized the reservation, the Agency will expand the information related to the necessary itinerary so that the traveler can develop all the preparations.\r\n \r\nThe delivery to the Traveler of the transport titles, travel vouchers or any other essential document for the correct execution of the benefits that make up the combined trip will be made the day of the activity or in the previous days.\r\n 7. The payment of the REMAINING AMOUNT will be made at least 16 days before the departure date\r\nThe Agency must deliver an INVOICE showing the total price paid at the time of formalizing the contract.\r\n*If the Traveler does not make said payment, the agency will require him to make it within the period set. The Agency may terminate the contract and apply the rules established for withdrawal before departure if the consumer does not make any of the payments provided for in the previous sections within the corresponding period.\r\n \r\n*If the trip is suspended, being the agency responsible for this cancellation, the company undertakes to return the amounts paid by the consumer.\r\n \r\n*If the Agency cannot offer the requested trip and offers the Traveler an analogous trip or a different one, unless expressly indicated otherwise, it will be understood that it maintains that offer for 72 hours. In these cases, the contract will be perfected if the consumer accepts the offer within that period or that which has been expressly established.\r\n \r\n8. The money is not returned in the following cases:-\r\n*The Agency may terminate the contract and apply the rules established for withdrawal before departure if the consumer does not make any of the payments provided for in the previous sections within the corresponding period.\r\n \r\n*If the Traveler rejects their willingness to travel, without any justification, once the reservation deposit has been made, the Cancellation Policy that is included in each Route will come into force and that the Agency will notify the Traveler in the Pre-contract.\r\n \r\nTermination of the contract by the TRAVELER without penalty\r\nThe Traveler may terminate the contract WITHOUT penalty in the following cases:-\r\n \r\nA. In exceptional circumstances or force majeure, for example in the event that there are serious security problems at the destination that may affect the combined trip, travelers may terminate the contract AT ANY TIME before the start of the combined trip, without pay no penalty.\r\nB. Because the Agency cancels the combined trip BEFORE the agreed departure date, for any reason that is not attributable to the Traveler or is not included in the Section Cancellation of the trip by the Agency without compensation.\r\nC. Due to significant modification of the Contract DURING the trip, due to changes in the contract after contracting, as established in the sections Modifications BEFORE the start of the combined trip and Modifications DURING the combined trip due to a significant lack of provision of services.\r\n \r\nIn cases B and C, the Traveler will have the right, from the moment the contract is terminated, to:-\r\n \r\n1) REFUND OF ALL AMOUNTS PAID.\r\nor else to CARRY OUT ANOTHER PACKAGE TRIP of equivalent or higher quality whenever the Agency can propose it.\r\nIn the event that the trip offered is of inferior quality, the Agency must reimburse the Traveler, when appropriate based on the amounts already paid, the difference in price, in accordance with the contract.\r\n \r\nThe Traveler may demand the reimbursement of the amounts disbursed within the terms and conditions provided in article 76 of Royal Legislative Decree 1\/2007 (without any undue delay and, in any case, before 14 calendar days have elapsed from the date on which the consumer and user has informed the employer of his decision to withdraw from the main contract). The calculation of the term, in this case, will begin from the notification of the consumer of his option for the resolution or from the moment when the determining circumstances of the cancellation occurred.\r\n \r\n2) In addition, to an INDEMNIFICATION based on the time remaining before departure, according to regulation 261\/2004.\r\n \r\nArt.160. Cancellation and right of withdrawal of the contract by the TRAVELER \r\nThe Traveler may terminate the contract at any time before and during the start of the combined trip, regardless of whether the cancellation was justified or not. In any case, an appropriate and justifiable penalty will be paid.\r\n The Agency includes in the price of the Trip an insurance with coverage of cancellation expenses and interruption of vacations for the justified reasons that appear in the clauses of said insurance.\r\nAdditionally, the traveler will be offered AN OPTIONAL INSURANCE that extends the insurance coverage included in the price of the trip.\r\n \r\nThe procedure will be as follows:-\r\nI. If the Traveler communicates the cancellation BEFORE THE START OF THE TRIP, he will have the right to a refund of the amounts he had paid, but he also has the obligation to \r\npay compensation. This indemnity is included in the Cancellation Policy that pertains to each Route and that will be included in the Pre-contract of the Trip. This compensation corresponds to:-\r\nA. Management fees\r\nB. Cancellation fees\r\nThese are the costs of the services of the providers (they go with a driver\/accompanying guide\/local guides\/hotel and restaurant reservations\/meetings with our hosts\/insurance policies\/tickets to specific sites), which do not allow reimbursement of what was paid for such a concept and whose cancellation may affect the rest of the travelers as they are negotiated rates for groups.\r\n\r\nIf the Traveler does not communicate his desire not to carry out the trip and does not show up at the time and place scheduled for departure, he loses the right to a refund of the amounts delivered and continues to be obliged to pay those that are pending. payment.\r\nIf the failure to show up at the point of Departure occurs due to force majeure, the Traveler will be entitled to a refund of the amounts paid, deducting the management fees and cancellation fees.\r\n \r\nFor these purposes, the death, accident or serious illness of the Traveler or of any of the people with whom they live or any similar assumption that prevents them from participating in the trip will be considered a cause of force majeure and notify the agency of that impossibility before departure.\r\n \r\nIn addition, if there are additional cancellation fees, such as the issuance of tickets from airline, ship or train companies and they cannot be returned, these must be paid by the Traveler.\r\n \r\nII. If the Traveler communicates the cancellation DURING THE TRIP, they will not be able to claim the return of the amounts paid and will continue to be obliged to pay those that are pending payment.\r\n\r\nIf the withdrawal is due to an accident or illness of the consumer that prevents him from continuing the trip, the agency is obliged to provide the necessary assistance and, where appropriate, to pay the amount of the difference between the benefits provided and those supplied, deducting the corresponding duly justified cancellation fees.\r\n\r\nIn both cases, all additional expenses caused by the withdrawal, and in particular those of repatriation or transfer to the place of origin, are borne by the consumer.\r\n\r\nArt.160 Cancellation of the trip by the AGENCY without compensation\r\nThe organizing company may cancel the contract and reimburse the traveler for all the payments they have made, but will not be responsible for any additional compensation (according to article 160 of Royal Decree 1\/2007 of the General Law for Defense of Consumers and Users), if:\r\n \r\nA. The number of people registered for the combined trip is less than the minimum number specified in the contract and the Agency notifies the traveler of the cancellation within the period set therein, which will be no later than:-\r\n \r\nAccording to Royal Decree-Law 23\/2018, of December 21 on Combined Tours:-\r\n- 20 calendar days before the start of the combined trip in the case of trips lasting more than six days.\r\n- 7 calendar days before the start of the combined trip in the case of trips lasting between two and six days\r\n- 48 hours before the start of the combined trip in the case of trips lasting less than two days\r\n B. The Agency finds it impossible to execute the contract for reasons of force majeure, unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances at the destination, in the vicinity or in the transport of passengers to the destination, which significantly affect the execution of the contract. journey. In this case, the Agency must notify the traveler of the cancellation without undue delay before the start of the combined trip.\r\n \r\nThe Agency will provide the refunds required in the previous sections to the traveler without undue delay and, in any case, within a period not exceeding 14 calendar days after notification. The Traveler will NOT be entitled to additional compensation.\r\nIn these cases, the Agency will do everything possible to offer an alternative trip to the Traveler, who may or may not accept the trip.\r\n \r\nAssignment of reservation\r\nThe Traveler may assign his reservation to a third party provided that he communicates it at least 15 days before the start date of the trip, unless the parties agree to a shorter term in the contract. The assignee will have to meet the same requirements as the assignor, generally required for the combined trip, and both will be jointly and severally liable for the amount pending payment of the agreed price, as well as any commission, surcharge or other additional costs derived from the assignment.\r\n \r\nThe agency will inform the assignor about the actual costs of the assignment. Said costs will be reasonable and, in any case, will not exceed the costs effectively borne by the Agency due to the assignment. The Agency will provide the assignor with proof of commissions, surcharges or other additional costs derived from the assignment of the contract within a reasonable time, upon request by the Traveler.\r\n \r\nModifications BEFORE the start of the combined trip by the Agency\r\nThe provision of the combined trip will be carried out in accordance with what was contracted by the parties and may be altered in the following cases:-\r\n \r\nA. That the change is not significant, for which the Agency is empowered.\r\nThe organizing agency reserves the possibility of modifying the provision of services when it considers it necessary for the proper development of the same, as long as they are not substantial or important modifications. \r\nThe visit program may suffer last-minute changes due to causes beyond the control of the Agency, either due to force majeure or last-minute changes in the meetings that we organize that are the responsibility of the hosts. In this case we will correct it with equally interesting alternative options so that at no time do they alter the quality of the routes.\r\n \r\nIn any case, the Agency will notify the Traveler of the changes as soon as possible.\r\n \r\nB. That it is necessary to substantially modify any of the main characteristics provided in the pre-contractual information. The necessary changes are considered to be significant if they prevent the realization of the purposes of this according to its general or special characteristics.\r\nC. That it is not possible to meet the previously accepted special needs of the Traveler.\r\nD. That it is necessary to modify the price by a percentage greater than 8%, according to what is included in the Price review section. In no case will the price of the trip be revised upwards in the 20 days immediately prior to the departure date.\r\n \r\nIn the cases included in letters b), c) and d) the Agency will immediately notify the Traveler stating the proposed modification and the term in which they must reply. The Traveler must communicate the decision that he adopts to the Agency within the three days following the notification of the modification. If the Traveler does not communicate his decision within the indicated period, it will be understood that he opts for the ACCEPTANCE of the modification offered, its price and the refund that may correspond to him. \r\n And the Traveler may:\r\na) ACCEPT THE PROPOSED CHANGE with a modification to the contract specifying the variations introduced and their impact on the price.\r\nThe Agency may not request any supplement for the solutions adopted for the continuation of the trip and will pay the user any difference between the services provided and those provided.\r\n \r\nb) ACCEPT A REPLACEMENT TRIP if possible of equivalent or higher quality. If the trip offered is of superior quality, the agency will not require any supplement. You can also accept a lower quality trip, but in this case the agency will deduct the difference in price.\r\n \r\nc) or TERMINATE THE CONTRACT without any penalty and with a full refund of all payments made.\r\nIn the event that the Traveler chooses to RESOLVE the contract, the refund of the price will take place within 14 calendar days from the notification of said option, without prejudice to their right to receive the COMPENSATION, established by a court or Arbitration Board, for any loss or damage suffered and can prove as a result of the resolution. \r\n \r\nChanges BEFORE the start of the combined trip by the Traveler\r\nIf at any time prior to departure the Traveler wishes to request changes related to destinations, means of transport, duration, calendar, contracted trip itinerary or any other point referring to benefits and the Agency can make them, the latter may require payment of the justified additional expenses caused by said modification as well as some management expenses for modification of the reservation that may not exceed 5% of the price of the trip.\r\n \r\nModifications DURING the combined trip due to a significant lack of provision of services \/ Lack of conformity \"compensation for damages\"\r\nThe services of the combined trip will be understood to be provided in accordance unless the Traveler states otherwise, in which case they must inform the organizer or, where appropriate, the Agency, without undue delay.\r\n\r\nIn the event that, after the departure of the trip, the Traveler verifies during the trip that there is a defect or the lack of provision of any contracted service or that the Agency verifies that it cannot provide an important part of the services provided for in the contract, it will proceed as follows:-\r\n\r\nA significant part of the services provided are those whose failure to perform prevents the normal development of the trip and causes it to be unreasonable to expect the Traveler to continue in these circumstances.\r\n\r\nIn such a case, the Traveler must communicate it in the same place and as soon as possible to the Agency, so that it may have the possibility of seeking an immediate solution if possible. And he will try not to increase the resulting damage with his actions and decisions. \r\n \r\nTo make it effective, the Traveler must grant the Agency a reasonable period of time that gives them a real possibility of rectification. This period will not apply in the event that he is aware of the Agency's refusal to remedy or in those cases in which an immediate solution is required. Once the period granted has elapsed without rectification by the Agency, the traveler may do so by himself and request reimbursement of the necessary expenses.\r\n \r\nThe Agency must work diligently to find the appropriate solutions, offering, at no additional cost to the Traveler, adequate alternative formulas, if possible of equivalent or superior quality to those specified in the contract, for the continuation of the combined trip. If the proposed alternative formulas give rise to a package trip of lesser quality than that specified in the contract, the Agency will pay the latter the amount of the difference between the benefits provided and those provided.\r\n If the Traveler expressly or tacitly accepts the solutions proposed by the Agency, they will not be entitled to any compensation for said modifications. It will be considered that he tacitly accepts such proposals if he continues the journey with the solutions given by the Agency.\r\n \r\nIf it is not possible to find alternative travel formulas or the Traveler does not accept them for reasonable reasons (if they are not comparable to what was agreed in the package travel contract or if the price reduction granted is inadequate), the Agency must: \r\n \r\n a) Provide a means of transportation equivalent to the one contracted for the trip to return to the place of departure or any other that both have agreed upon, if the contract includes the return trip.\r\nIf it is impossible to guarantee the return of the traveler as agreed in the contract due to unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances, the Agency will assume the cost of the necessary accommodation, if possible of an equivalent category, for a period not exceeding three nights. per traveler. When the European regulations on passenger rights, applicable to the corresponding means of transport for the return of the traveler, establish longer periods, said periods will apply.\r\nThe limitation of costs referred to in the previous section will not apply to people with disabilities or reduced mobility, as defined in article 2.a) of Regulation (EC) No. 1107\/2006 of the Parliament Council and Council of July 5, 2006, on the rights of people with disabilities or reduced mobility in air transport, or their companions, pregnant women and unaccompanied minors, as well as people in need of medical assistance specific, if your particular needs have been communicated to the organizer or, where appropriate, to the retailer at least forty-eight hours before the start of the trip. The organizer and the retailer may not invoke the unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances for the purposes of limitation of liability, in accordance with section 7, if the carrier cannot rely on these circumstances under European regulations.\r\nb) Reimburse the price paid (minus the amount of services provided until the end of the trip), except if the defect that prevents the continuation of the trip is attributable to the Traveler.\r\nc) Pay compensation for damages suffered by the Traveler as a result of any lack of conformity, without undue delay, unless it is attributable to the Traveler, or to a third party unrelated to the provision of the contracted services and unpredictable or unavoidable , or due to unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances.\r\nTo the extent that the international agreements that bind the European Union limit the scope or conditions of the payment of compensation by travel service providers included in a package trip, the same limitations will apply to the organizers and retailers. In all other cases, the contract may limit the compensation to be paid by the organizer or the retailer provided that this limitation does not apply to bodily harm or loss caused intentionally or negligently and that its amount is not less than three times the price total trip.\r\n \r\nThe compensation or price reduction granted by virtue of Royal Legislative Decree 1\/2007 and the previous regulations and, where appropriate, the applicable international conventions will be deducted from each other to avoid excess compensation.\r\n \r\nThe Traveler is obliged to take the measures that are necessary and\/or appropriate to try to reduce the damages that may arise from the non-execution or defective execution of the contract to prevent it from worsening. The damages that derive from not having adopted such measures will be the responsibility of the Traveler.\r\n \r\nTravel assistance\r\nThe Agency shall provide adequate assistance without undue delay to the Traveler in particular difficulty by: providing adequate information on health services, local authorities and consular assistance, and assisting the traveler in establishing remote communications and help to find alternative travel formulas.\r\n The Agency may invoice a reasonable surcharge for said assistance if the difficulty has been caused intentionally or by negligence of the traveler. Said surcharge will not exceed in any case the actual costs incurred by the Agency.\r\n \r\nUnavoidable and extraordinary circumstances\r\nIn the event of unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances, the following rules will apply:\r\n \r\n · When unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances occur at the destination or in the immediate vicinity that significantly affect the execution of the combined trip or the transportation of passengers to the destination, the traveler shall have the right to terminate the contract BEFORE the start of it without paying any penalty. In this case, the traveler will be entitled to a full refund of any payment made, but NOT to additional compensation.\r\n\r\n· If it is impossible to guarantee the return of the traveler as agreed in the contract, the Agency will assume the cost of the accommodation that is necessary, if possible of an equivalent category, for a period not exceeding three nights per traveler.\r\n \r\nArticle 161. Responsibility for the execution of the combined trip and right of compensation\r\nResponsibility towards the consumer will be joint and several of all businessmen, whether organizers or retailers, concur jointly in the contract regardless of their class and the relationships that exist between them, without prejudice to the right of repetition of whoever responds to the consumer and user against whom the breach or defective fulfillment of the contract is attributable according to their respective scope of management of the combined trip.\r\n \r\nThe Package Travel Agency will respond to the Traveler for the correct fulfillment of the obligations derived from the contract, regardless of whether these must be executed by the Agency itself or by other service providers, and without prejudice to the right of the organizers to act against said service providers.\r\n \r\n The traveler must inform the organizer without undue delay, taking into account the circumstances of each case, of any lack of conformity that he observes during the execution of a travel service included in the contract. \r\n \r\n3. If any of the services included in the trip are not executed in accordance with the contract, the organizer and, where appropriate, the retailer must remedy the lack of conformity, unless it is impossible or if this entails a disproportionate cost, taking into account the severity of the non-conformity and the value of the affected travel services. In the event that in accordance with this section the lack of conformity is not corrected, the provisions of article 162 will apply. Price reduction and compensation for damages.\r\n \r\nWithout prejudice to the exceptions provided in the previous section, if the organizer does not correct the lack of conformity within a reasonable period established by the traveler, the traveler may do so and request reimbursement of the necessary expenses. The traveler will not need to specify a deadline if the organizer refuses to remedy the lack of conformity or if an immediate solution is required.\r\n \r\nArticle 162. Price reduction and compensation for damages.\r\n*The Organizing Agency, as it is the one that plans the combined trip, is responsible for the damages caused to the Traveler due to the non-execution or deficient execution of the benefits included in the combined trip, as well as for the damages that come from the breach of any other obligation that corresponds to its scope of management in accordance with the applicable legislation.\r\n \r\nThis responsibility will cease when any of the following circumstances occur:\r\nA. That the defects observed in the execution of the contract are attributable to the consumer.\r\n \r\nb) That said defects are attributable to a third party unrelated to the provision of the services provided for in the contract and are of an unpredictable or insurmountable nature.\r\n c) That the aforementioned defects are due to reasons of force majeure, understanding as such those circumstances beyond the control of the person who invokes them, abnormal and unforeseeable whose consequences could not have been avoided, despite having acted with due diligence.\r\n \r\nd) That the defects are due to an event that the organizer or retailer, despite having put all the necessary diligence, could not foresee or overcome.\r\n \r\nIn the cases of exclusion of responsibility due to any of the circumstances provided for in paragraphs b), c) and d), the organizer and the retailer that are part of the contract will be obliged, however, to provide the necessary assistance to the consumer who is in difficulty. There will be no duty of assistance when the defects produced during the execution of the contract are exclusively attributable to intentional or negligent behavior of the consumer.\r\n \r\n*The Retail Agency, as it is the one that sells or offers for sale the combined trip proposed by an organizing agency, is liable for the damages caused to the consumer due to errors made when informing them about the combined trip, for having omitted the information that he had to provide, for not having delivered the necessary documentation for the correct completion of the trip and, in general, for having breached any other obligation that corresponds to his scope of management in accordance with applicable legislation.\r\n \r\nThe compensation for damages resulting from non-compliance or poor performance of the benefits included in the combined trip, will be limited in accordance with the provisions of the international conventions that regulate said benefits that bind the European Union.\r\n \r\nThe contract may limit the compensation that the Agency must pay as long as that limitation does not apply to bodily harm or losses caused intentionally or by negligence. Such compensation will be based on the type of damage caused and its severity.\r\n \r\nLiability for benefits not included in the combined trip\r\n 1. The contractual liability rules of the combined trip are not applicable to benefits such as excursions, attendance at sporting or cultural events, visits to exhibitions or museums, or other similar ones, which are not included in the package. global price of the combined trip and that the consumer contracts on an optional basis on the occasion of the same or during its course.\r\nIn these cases, the agency must indicate to the consumer the optional nature of the benefit and that it is not part of the combined trip.\r\n 2. If the agency intervenes in the contracting of these benefits, it will respond in accordance with the specific rules of the contract it makes.\r\n \r\nLimitations of liability of international conventions\r\nWhen the benefits of the combined travel contract are governed by international agreements, compensation for bodily and non-bodily damages resulting from non-compliance or poor execution thereof will be subject to the limitations established by them. \r\n \r\nLimitation of liability for non-bodily damages\r\n1. When the combined travel benefits are not governed by international agreements:\r\n a) Compensation for non-bodily damage will be limited in all respects to double the price of the trip, including moral damages not derived from bodily damage and reimbursements that must be made. \r\n b) The Agency's compensation for damages arising from loss or deterioration of luggage will be limited to 350 euros.\r\n 2. The limitations provided for in the two previous sections will not apply if the Agency or the service providers have intentionally caused the damage or have acted recklessly knowing that it would probably occur.\r\n Guarantee for contractual liability - BOND INSURANCE\r\nSingular Spain maintains, with the AON insurance agency, a guarantee in the terms determined by the General Directorate of Tourism of the Community of Madrid, to respond in general for compliance with the obligations derived from the provision of its services against to the contracting parties of a package trip and, especially, in the event of insolvency, of the effective reimbursement of all the payments made by the travelers to the extent that the corresponding services have not been carried out and, in the event that transport is included , of their effective repatriation.\r\n \r\nThe requirement of this guarantee will be subject in any case to the provisions of Law 20\/2013, of December 9, on the guarantee of market unity.\r\n \r\nAs soon as it is evident that the execution of the combined trip is affected by the lack of liquidity of the organizers or retailers, to the extent that the trip is not carried out or is carried out partially or the service providers require the travelers pay for them, the Traveler will be able to easily access the guaranteed protection, without excessive formalities, without any undue delay and free of charge.\r\n \r\nSINGULAR SPAIN will be the responsible entity in this case.\r\n \r\nIf the guarantee is executed, it must be replaced within 15 days, until the initial totality of the same is covered again.\r\n \r\nDispute resolution\r\n\r\nA. Claims to the Agency\r\n 1. Notwithstanding the legal actions that assist him, the Traveler may make written claims for the non-execution or deficient execution of the contract before the retail and\/or organizing agency.\r\n2. Once the Claim is received, within a maximum period of 30 days, the Agency must reply in writing to the claims made\r\n3. In this phase, the Traveler and the Agency may request the mediation of the competent administration or of the bodies that are set up for this purpose to find a solution to the conflict that is satisfactory to both parties.\r\n\r\nB. Claim by the Traveler\r\nThe Travel Agency has a CLAIMS SHEET available to the Traveler who requests it. After filling it out, the affected Traveler must submit a copy to the General Directorate of Tourism.\r\nIn the event that the Agency does not want to deliver the sheets, the consumer must file a complaint with the General Directorate of Tourism. Along with the form, you must provide all the evidence you deem appropriate (invoice, contract, advertising...).\r\nIf you need to complain about a transport that you have used, you can visit the different reports on transport that you can find in the travel section of the Consumer Portal.\r\nIf traveling within the European Union, the Traveler can contact the European Consumer Center to make any query or claim.\r\n\r\nC. Consumer arbitration and judicial proceedings\r\n If the conflict cannot be resolved by complaining to the Agency, the Traveler may submit it to the competent CONSUMER ARBITRATION BOARD, if the claimed agency had previously adhered to the consumer arbitration system, or, if the agency, despite not being a member, accepts the consumer's request for arbitration.\r\nClaims involving intoxication, injury, death or rational evidence of crime cannot be subject to consumer arbitration.\r\nUnless something else has been established in the public offer of submission to the consumer arbitration system, the arbitration will be governed by law and the arbitration procedure will be governed by the provisions of Royal Decree 231\/2008, of February 15.\r\nThe award issued by the arbitration court appointed by the Consumer Arbitration Board will resolve the claim presented definitively and will be binding on both parties.\r\n Legal actions \r\n If the controversy is not submitted to Consumer Arbitration, the consumer may claim in COURT.\r\nLegal actions derived from the package travel contract prescribe for a period of two years, counting from the day the trip ended or should have ended.\r\nApplicable legislation The legal relationship between the Agency and the Traveler will be subject to Spanish common law, and any judicial process will be carried out in the Courts of Madrid, Spain.\r\nThe jurisdictional order is the jurisdiction of the domicile of the entity that provides the services.\r\n\r\nBasic information on Data Protection\r\nIn accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016\/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of April 27, 2016 (GDPR), the traveler accepts that the personal data reported in this document, as well as those that may be provided in the future for the same purpose, are collected and processed by the SINGULAR SPAIN agency with address in Madrid, Valderrey, 35, 28039 Madrid. Said data has been collected by the SINGULAR SPAIN agency in order to manage and develop the set of services stipulated in this contract with the client, being necessary to fulfill said purpose. The affected party may exercise the rights recognized in the GDPR and, in particular, those of access, limitation, rectification, deletion, opposition and oblivion, through a letter that may be addressed to the registered office of the SINGULAR SPAIN agency at the indicated address. , with the reference &ldquoData Protection&rdquo.\r\n \r\nImage Rights Information\r\nDuring the Trip, photos will be taken that can be distributed among the Travelers in the group and can also be uploaded to the RRSS and the Travel Agency website. If, for any reason, a @ Traveler @ does not agree with the reproduction of his image, he will notify the person responsible for the Trip to avoid it.\r\n \r\nModifications to the TERMS and CONDITIONS\r\nThese General Conditions and Provisions will be valid until replaced by new ones\r\n \r\nValidity\r\nThe validity of these general conditions will be annual with automatic renewal.\r\n \r\nEdition date: September 1, 2022\r\n\r\n\r\n"
Field Notebook
"This is our blog\\|\/Field NotebookA herd of black merino is capable of everything\\|\/María Pérez de Arenaza\\|\/\r\nGonzalo Palomo with his herd of black Merina and behind him the city of Cáceres\r\n \r\n\"Right here, in this cork oak forest of the Sierra de Portanchito, is the point of greatest biodiversity of the eight Extremaduran meadows that we have carefully analyzed so far. And this is something very significant, a benchmark in actions to reverse climate change, thanks to a type of grazing that sequesters carbon, regenerates the soil, enhances biodiversity, and serves as a firebreak to prevent fires...\"\r\n \r\nThis particular place, which Gonzalo Palomo, Veterinarian, consultant and environmental trainer, points out to us with such satisfaction, is located a few steps from the city of Cáceres. Here, so close to the urban area, there is a valley of Mediterranean mountains with different species of trees, scrub and grasslands, and a great wealth of ornithology. Cáceres is the only capital in Spain without a river, but the people of Cáceres have this spectacular recreation area, which starts from the Ribera del Marco corridor, the axis of life in Cáceres for centuries, with its fountains, orchards, mills and a whole complex karstic, in which the Maltravieso Cave stands out with remains of rock art from Neanderthal times, that is, one of the oldest in Europe -the City Council plans to plan a walk that links Maltravieso with the Helga de Alvear Museum, the origin of art and avant-garde, just 20 minutes away-, and that rises and extends through the Sierra de la Mosca, the highest area of ​​the Llanos de Cáceres. Our action center. \r\n \r\nIt is a splendid sunny day, we are at the foot of the sanctuary of the Virgen de la Montaña, patron saint of the city, in an area of ​​intense green, with the soundtrack of the cowbells of the flock of black and some white Merino sheep, and the chirping of birds. Gonzalo and Pastor Miguel are entering a new plot of land. They will graze there for a few days, just long enough to leave the soil capable of regeneration. And from there to another plot. All studied mathematically. This herd of 100 sheep sleep outdoors and give birth alone \"for that we have mastiffs that protect the newborns.\" When we get closer to see the sheep, they run straight to a private house (I guess scared by my presence), and Gonzalo shoots after them to the sound of brrrrr! brrrrr! to bring them back, before they commit any damage. \"All black breeds in general have been on the verge of extinction, he tells us, because wool has always given sheep its reason for being, the whiteness of wool was sought and blacks became relegated, that is why our effort in this type of sheep\". \r\n&zwnj\r\nMiguel a cargo del rebaño de merinas\r\n \r\nGonzalo is a full-fledged agent of revitalization of the environment. As a consultant, he develops such interesting projects as the Proyecto cto Mosaico, together with the University of Extremadura, to design a fire prevention strategy -an issue that has been taken very seriously as a result of that terrible fire of 2015-, based on agricultural, livestock and forestry activities that are recovering a diverse, inhabited and less risky landscape. The study also includes the creation of an environmental evaluation diagnosis of the pasture system to promote good practices among farmers. The aim of the study, among other things, is to integrate an international platform for environmental services and also attract companies and shareholders seeking social and environmental involvement. \r\n \r\nAnd in his free time he does field work in the different regions of Extremadura through the ACTYVA integral cooperative, which he set up together with other partners, and which today brings together more than 300 people and entities from the Southwest of the peninsula, consumers, farmers, ranchers and professionals who want to produce and generate economic and social development while respecting their environment. From the cooperative they directly supply consumers with organic products from places of production near the capital of Cáceres. He also coordinates the online platform BBB Farming , a showcase of good practices in livestock farming and agroecology. In addition to serving as a sharing, training and support network for organic entrepreneurs, this platform has something very curious: through monitoring with webcamps you can see the process of preparing the food that you are going to eat live. , who produces them, where and how they are produced, when they are... and once they are ready for consumption they are distributed through their Cáceres para Comérselo consumption network. With this support for entrepreneurship, you want to get your hands dirty with dirt because you know you're not alone. \r\n \r\n\"What motivates me on a personal level is going out to the fields with my son Olmo. Everything else is laboratory and office work.\" So, every afternoon that he can, he goes up with his son to the Sierra de La Mosca to control and maintain the actions that are being carried out between him and five other partners since 2014. This particular project has been called Merineando, it focuses on the Valle de Valdeflores and covers a total of 100 hectares, some of which are leased and others transferred through a land stewardship model, private farms that they manage. Depending on the needs of the plots, an agreement is signed with the owners for the improvement and maintenance of the plot in exchange for use with the sheep. A kind of barter, \"the owners give us their plots, save effort and money in their maintenance, and in exchange we take advantage of them to do field work focused on the regeneration of the territory, carbon sequestration, fire prevention and in the commercialization and valorization of an autochthonous and endangered ovine species\". The plan is not bad.\r\n \r\n \r\n The star of the project is the herd of black Merinos. They are their best tool, grazing sheep that rotate from plot to plot to do the clearing and fertilizing work. \"It is a pioneering experience. Our herd is an \"innovation herd\". We do not consider it as a way of life, although we do try to make it economically sustainable. We try to make it serve as innovation for land management, and also as innovation social because we manage it collectively among a group of volunteers, and between generations -Miguel, the shepherd who is now in charge of the sheep is retired, there are young people, families...- Our slogan is \"revitalize the community and the land, improve the environment and social relationships.\" But also innovation in terms of the grazing model through Holistic Management , a way of working the land, devised by Zimbabwean naturalist and rancher Allan Savory, through actions aimed at regenerating the ecosystem and societies.The Savory Institut is developing a global project to implement holistic management in 1 billion hectares by 2025, of which 250,000 hectares will cover the Iberian Peninsula through the non-profit association aleJAB, its executing agent on the peninsula. \r\n \r\nSounds ambitious, but the results of this handling on the regeneration of land and its great potential as a CO2 carbon sink can already be verified right here, in the cork oak forest through which we are walking. \"There are only three farms in the Iberian Peninsula (2 in Extremadura and 1 in Elvas, Portugal) where holistic management is practiced in an exemplary manner, and here where we are now, is one of them. The secret is to respect with mathematical rigor the times of limited grazing and controlled rest, in this way we ensure that the plants when they grow back function with all their physiological fullness, and in addition to sequestering carbon in the soil, they revitalize the soil, feed the cattle and beautify the environment. It is a more than sufficient argument not to carry out the lithium extraction that is intended to be done in this valley\", Gonzalo comments. There is a project on the table for the exploitation of an open-pit lithium mine in the area of ​​Valdeflores. A time bomb that threatens everything we are seeing. \r\n \r\n\r\nin this cork oak forest of the Sierra de Portanchito is the point of greatest biodiversity\r\n &zwnj\r\n&zwnjFor this reason, in order to safeguard the Sierra de La Mosca, and as an alternative to the mine, another of its research projects is an Economic Revitalization Plan that includes agriculture, livestock, forestry management, mills, processing of meat... a series of actions to create about 300 direct and indirect jobs. \"That would certainly generate local employment.\"\r\n \r\n\r\nIn addition to regenerating the land and preventing fires in its path, this herd of black Merinos produces meat of high gastronomic value, which is sold at the Cáceres market, and as a novelty ACTYVA, in collaboration with aleJAB, is packaging the first stews with the Valdeflores brand, the first non-perishable holistic product It has an excellent wool that they deliver to the Asociación Laneras, members of the ACTYVA cooperative, whose mission is to revalue the wool sector and they keep lambs for life -the black merino females are not sacrificed, because they are in danger of extinction-. Without forgetting the extra virgin olive oil also brand Valdeflores, which they export to Germany. \"Now our goal is to keep it going and go little by little,\" Gonzalo tells us.\r\n \r\nOn the other side of the dirt road that surrounds \"the point of greatest biodiversity\" is an area of ​​feral pastureland under observation. \"This point is very interesting because you can see the contrast very well. It is a land that we have rented, but we do not take advantage of it. The hypothesis is, if we abandon grazing, the field would go towards an abandoned pasture with closed forest, with a risk of Evident fires and with less regeneration and less biodiversity. Since the soil is poor, the rockrose and jaguar become strong, colonize everything and prevent other species from growing. There is more regeneration in the grazing area than in the wild.\"\r\nAt our last stop, just before dark, we went to the shed to see a sheep with trauma. \"She has been bottle-raised, and she doesn't fit in with the flock. Our hope is that she will be a mom soon and her lambs will serve as a bridge for her to blend in with the rest of the sheep.\" Let's hope so, although the male that accompanies her seemed reticent...\r\n \r\nI said goodbye to Gonzalo having learned about the great potential of a small innovative herd of black Merino Merinos, who guard the green lungs of a World Heritage City.\r\n\r\n \r\n\nMy initiation journey\\|\/María Pérez de Arenaza\\|\/\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nMy first fieldwork trip was to Extremadura: Cáceres city, surroundings and Badajoz province. My sister Lucía accompanied me. We went in the middle of August, quite scared by the heat that awaited us, but we came back from there so excited that for a while all I could talk about was Extremadura. And, of course, it helped me to reaffirm my desire to continue with the project. In Extremadura, life is palpable on all sides. We were welcomed by splendid people, eager to share with us their trades, their know-how and their concerns. We spoke with ranchers, shepherds, foresters, artisans, farm owners, researchers and representatives of associations, all of them dedicated to valuing the wealth of their land. We learned the virtues of extensive livestock farming and transhumance to regenerate and conserve the pasture forest, traditional practices to ensure fertile land, healthy trees that provide shade, natural firebreaks, carbon fixation in the soil..., in short, to preserve a unique environment, exclusive to the Iberian Peninsula, a poor land, yet extremely rich in biodiversity, which produces first-class quality and enjoys a beautiful landscape. The pasture is one of the richest ecosystems in the world, it is the largest Agrarian System of High Natural Value in Europe. And it is tremendously fragile.\r\n \r\n&zwnj&zwnj\r\n \r\nThey also show us traditional and innovative projects to recover one of their best raw materials, the Merina wool. We visited a workshop, from the s. XVIII, where the family still makes huge handmade pottery  without a mold. We were welcomed by a charming potter who told us about the process of making his ceramic pieces, while he carefully gave color to a jug fresh from the oven. And we got to know a family business dedicated to the artisanal production of the internationally awarded cheese La Torta del Casar.\r\nNatural and cultural heritage and also innovation driven by agricultural and livestock farmers, entrepreneurs, researchers and all kinds of social and enviromental promoters collaborating together so that Extremadura can recover, maintain and enhance its heritage. All this thanks to value-driven people's initiatives dedicated to thinking, rescuing, promoting and looking for new ways of contemporary sustainable country life.\r\n \r\n&zwnj\r\n \r\nPeople with a soul who love their land and their roots, and who are not willing to see it languish. They know that it is a difficult job, that requires struggle, energy and tenacity, but they are all committed to a common effort to leave a legacy with great potential for the younger generations, so that Extremadura continues to be an exceptional place, with local products. excellent. It gave us the impression of being inside a large rural laboratory, where new ways of working that are more consistent with the environment are tirelessly sought. A trial and error laboratory that culminates in new practices that serve as a claim for the rest of the producers.\r\n \r\n&zwnj &zwnj\r\nAt each visit we would go through beautiful country roads that run through open fields of pasture, dotted with Templar castles perched on hills watching over the cattle that graze peacefully. We looked here and there for the ancient and the contemporary, a small Visigothic jewel lost among a field of olive trees, the basilica of Santa Lucía del Trampal a Mudejar hermitage tattooed inside with 17th century frescoes, the Virgen del Ara, nicknamed the &ldquoSistine Chapel of Extremadura&rdquo an old wool laundry in the middle of the fantastic landscape of Los Barruecos, converted into the Vostell Malpartida Museum, which houses the bizarre collection of one of the most representative artists of the s. XX, the German Wolf Vostell, and a lover of the rural world of Extremadura also the expansion of the Helga de Alvear Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Mansilla y Tuñón, which bears the name of its founder, the gallery owner and philanthropist of German origin. Also monumental is Trujillo and the imposing Roman Theater of Mérida with its museum of Roman art, the Aqueduct of Miracles, which was built to carry water from a Roman dam still in use the Tartessian grave goods of Aliseda and very close, in the Maltravieso Cave, one of the oldest traces of Neanderthal art in the world&hellip\r\n \r\n&zwnj\r\n \r\nFields of holm oaks, cork oaks and olive trees, bulls, pigs, cows, goats, white sheep of many different breeds and a handful of black Merino sheep, which Miguel and his family care for, as if he were guarding a treasure. Miguel is quite a character, an idealistic farmer in La Siberia Extremadura, who has set out to recover this native breed, among other animals that are also disappearing, and that gives the best wool in Europe (yes, they are black). Watchful mastiffs, imperial eagles and black vultures gliding over our heads, black storks, herons and deer preparing for their moment of bellowing, mills, vineyards and wineries, country food with crumbs, cheese from the goats that graze there, Iberian ham from 100% acorn-fed sausage, black sausage and wine from the Ribera del Guadiana, spectacular country estates, and a wonderful recreational farmhouse, lost from the world, in a landscape of holm oaks that does not reach the end, with a garden of roses and water lilies and the shade of an imposing fig tree, ready to accommodate you and experience, among many other proposals, one of our ancestral rites, the traditional-style slaughter.\r\n \r\n&zwnj\r\n \r\nAll under a relentless sky, without a cloud and, surprisingly, bearable. He didn't give us time for more. But there is much more to discover, enjoy and learn in Extremadura, a land with history (land of conquerors and cross-border, which was an international power in the textile industry and with a livestock culture responsible for much of the landscape of our peninsula), full of small stories of love and respect for a cultural legacy that has been passed down through generations, people with a great desire to move forward betting on the future, theirs and ours. This is an example of rural Spain that is being built, and, seen what has been seen, we take our hats off. As Rosa María Aráujo, mayoress of Tamurejo, a town in La Siberia of Extremadura, recently named a Biosphere Reserve, says: &ldquoThe most valuable thing we have in the region are the people who live there.&rdquo p>\r\n \r\nWe can't wait to share people and places like this with you and discover what is there and who is behind everything we are going to enjoy.\r\n \r\n \r\n\nThe Sigena Monastery under reconstruction. A fascinating story.\\|\/María Pérez de Arenaza\\|\/\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nPreparing a new travel report through the province of Jaén, for the magazine NUEVO ESTILO COLLECTION, I discover a master craftsman specializing in Mudejar coffered ceilings, who has left me impressed, Paco Luis Martos, Award National Craftsmanship 2023, born in Villanueva del Arzobispo and with a workshop in Úbedea, a World Heritage Site. A researcher dedicated to the recovery and transmission of know-how dating back 1,000 years, when the first wooden covers appeared in the peninsula under Islamic influence that would decorate alhambras, fortresses and Arab, Christian and Jewish religious buildings. A unique art that was developed exclusively in Spain.\r\n \r\nAnd among the wonders he created is a very special coffered ceiling, made for the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sigena in Villanueva de Sigena (Hudesca) commanded to be built in the 12th century, by Queen Sancha of Castile as a monastery intended for hospital nuns. It was built in the middle of the Los Monegros desert and became one of the richest and most beautiful monasteries in Aragon thanks to the important donations it received, and among its palatial rooms the Chapter House stood out, decorated with rich medieval frescoes. In 1923 it was declared a National Monument and between 1983 and 1994 the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem sold a series of assets of great artistic value to the Generalitat of Catalonia without the permission of the heritage authorities. In 2002 it was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest and after a long litigation for its recovery, the vast majority of the pieces were returned and returned to Aragon between 2016 and 2017. \r\n \r\nThis wonderful documentary tells the enormous and meticulous work of recreating the Chapter House, whose original frescoes are found in the National Museum of Art of Catalonia. The person responsible for the SIGENA MÁGICA project is the philanthropist Juan Naya, born in Villanueva de Sigena, who has committed himself to recovering the beauty of his town's church. A bold work that uses craftsmanship and new technologies to get as close as possible to what others created more than eight centuries ago.\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nCross-border Historical Villages\\|\/María Pérez de Arenaza\\|\/\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\nOn this trip you are going to immerse yourself in a haven of peace and hospitality, small and unique towns where we organize meetings with their people to bring you closer to their culture and their environment, in addition to visiting the historical, architectural, natural and gastronomic heritage that each town guards with the desire to safeguard and disseminate a unique and exciting legacy of the Iberian Peninsula.\r\n \r\nAnd at sunset, relax in charming accommodations with soul surrounded by nature, under starry skies, where their hosts offer a deep sense of well-being due to the environment, their cozy rooms, their delicious homemade meals and great moments of conversation. Their hospitality is rooted in the territory and they know how to transmit it.\r\n \r\nWe propose here a series of people, places and activities to discover in Portuguese villages and Spanish villages.\r\n \r\nSpanish side, Sierra de Gata Occidental\r\n \r\nTrevejo (Asset of Cultural Interest and recently declared one of The Most Beautiful Towns in Spain) is a micro village with very well preserved traditional medieval architecture, which remains frozen in time next to the ruins of a defensive castle on an imposing watchtower from where you can see the west of Serraga. It was a stronghold of the Order of San Juan de los Hospitalarios and shelter for Fernán Centeno's bandits. The castle was bombed by Napoleonic troops in the 19th century and, since then, it has been abandoned to its fate, but the beauty of its ruins has made it an icon of the Sierra.\r\n(The fortress is part of the RED LIST of Hispania Nostra).\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nSan Martín de Trevejo, also A Site of Cultural Interest and one of The Most Beautiful Towns in Spain, is one of the three towns in the Jálama Valley or Xálima Valley, where its inhabitants still speak a Fala, a language with Galician-Portuguese roots, a true linguistic treasure. Apart from this intangible heritage, we will stop at its excellent rural architecture and urban planning with its \"streams to irrigate the corrais\" with the water that comes down from the Val de\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nSantibáñez el Alto, perched on the summit of the Sierra de San Martín on steep slopes between granite berrocales, oaks and brooms. Santibáñez is the great viewpoint of the lands of Alagón from where you can see Portugal, the area of ​​La Raya, Gredos, Las Hurdes and part of Sierra de Gata. There, the largest defensive fortification of the Sierra de Gata was built, of Arab origin and rebuilt in the 11th and 12th centuries. Part of the fortress still stands and the residents of the town have put all their efforts into its recovery.\r\n \r\n\r\n And at its feet a very special pasture area, the Pajares de Santibáñez el Alto, declared A Site of Cultural Interest with the category of Place of Ethnographic Interest, a bucolic landscape rich in springs, fountains and watering holes, pastures with centuries-old wild olive trees where cows and horses graze among old communal buildings dedicated to stables, tools and haystacks, some still in use.\r\n \r\nVery close is the Borbollón Reservoir, where cranes come to spend the night during the fall and winter. A spectacle.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\nIn addition to the guided tours of these charming historical and medieval towns, stopped in time, we offer you meetings with those who we consider great ambassadors of the Sierra de Gata and Las Hurdes.\r\n \r\nAs is the case of Daniel, who takes care of a beautiful family farm with an olive grove that grows the Manzanilla Cacereña native to the area, with which they make their award-winning extra virgin olive oil, also with historic vineyards and cattle that graze extensively next to an old modernist house and a small hermitage. Dani, who is a great cultural promoter of his region, runs the small tavern in the village of Trevejo, whose space serves as a center for cultural meetings related to the area.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nAlso Laura, who started La Finca de La Felicidad, at the foot of Castillo de Trevejo, with more than 70 species of aromatic, fruit and forest trees. An opportunity to have a good time among plants and flowers and with a great history of entrepreneurship behind it. After the walk around the farm, Laura will take you to share a gastronomic experience in the town of Acebo with local products and aromatic plants.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nAnd Miguel, breeder, along with his father, of Berrenda cows in Colorado and the Black Merino sheep (his flock produces one of the best wool). Two native breeds in danger of extinction, which graze extensively in beautiful areas of the mountains to maintain the terrain and prevent fires. A rancher who has the blood of his grandparents, nomadic shepherds, running through his veins.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nThe Almazara As Pontis with its award-winning Extra Virgin Olive Oils from Cacereña chamomile with DO Gata-Hurdes. Mountain olive grove of extraordinary quality. A project of the Carrasco Lajas family that was born with the purpose of rescuing the Careceña chamomile. The mill works with its own olives and also with olives from farmers in the area. A great time to visit it is during harvest time with the arrival of the trucks. Part of its philosophy is to recover and disseminate the oil culture in the Sierra de Gata and preserve the traditional dry-land olive grove so unique to the Cáceres landscape. They have, in the alamzara, a beautiful ethnological museum dedicated to the oil culture of the region and, very close, a restaurant and accommodation in what was an old blanket, oil, pomace and soap factory, which the family found in a state of abandonment, but with some beautiful standing columns.\r\n Crossing a pine forest in the area of ​​Valverde del Fresno, we arrive at Ángel's workshop where he works with esparto grass with a grace that comes innate to him and a technique that he learned in Granada from the hand of a lifelong esparto artist. It is their way of reconnecting with nature, with the culture of the area and with oneself. \"I've been a gardener all my life, and now my garden is a dry plant, a bundle of fiber,\" Angel tells us. At his side is his sister Almudena, who is in charge of spreading the word about his work and helping him with sewing when he is overwhelmed. A small family business in which his mother and father, a carpenter, also participate.\r\n \r\nIt is also worth a visit to Erika and José's project with their herd of goats and their cheese factory where they handcraft one of the most appreciated cheeses in the region and by anyone who tries them.\r\n \r\nAt dusk, if it's crane season, don't miss the spectacular parade of the flocks of cranes arriving at their roost in the Borbollón Reservoir, very close to the Pajares de Santibañez.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nAnd if it's not the season, an afternoon of relaxation at the hotel. We suggest you stay in an old hydraulic mill converted into a beautiful boutique hotel. An American from Texas put all his effort into this hotel. After spending so much time in Extremadura in his youth, he fell in love with the place and set out to find an old building in ruins with the intention of renovating it. Its owner and his wife, an artist, have tastefully decorated the hotel with the intention of conveying deep well-being. A place that wants to go beyond the accommodation and restaurant service, its intention is to reactivate the route of hydraulic mills in the area and promote the folklore of the area.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nOr surrounded by a spectacular landscape of pastures, olive trees and birds that come to drink from the farm's reservoir. This imposing place was acquired by an Ibizan family with the idea of ​​exploiting it for extensive livestock, with a breed of cows unique in the world, and a herd of merinos, but the landscape of olive trees was so rooted in the environment that they decided to respect it and produce their own oil and, later, open a splendid accommodation with its hamman. After trying its culinary delights, a walk at sunset through the pasture is a great pleasure. Only the path that leads to the accommodation is wonderful.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nWhen night falls, with the sky covered in stars, you will be able to enjoy one of the most beautiful experiences that the few skies that are still free of light pollution give us and whose value is multiplied when you have the opportunity to enjoy it with the help of Nicolás and Cristina, experts and great astronomical disseminators, who will guide you, with the help of their telescopes, to locate the main constellations within the celestial vault. \"An incredible journey in space and time to reconstruct the infinite puzzle that our story tells (...). The spell of the Sierra de Gata increases once the sun goes to bed and the stars light up...\", says Nicolas.\r\n \r\n \r\nPortuguese side, La Beira\r\n The next day, calmly, you will cross the border on the way to the Historical Village of Sortelha, just an hour away, between the Serra de Malcata Natural Reserve and the Parque Natural da Serra da Estrela. In this museum-village, only 12 people live within the wall and it is one of the villages that has best managed to preserve its medieval appearance, walled and with a 13th century castle. There Luisa and Rodrigo have opened a charming restaurant, an adventure called Cardo Sortelha. The project has taken them 2 years of slow cooking, recovering old furniture and materials. Cuisine made with community products with the whisper of fados in the background and served in clay dishes made by the ASTA association, which is responsible for energizing tourist experiences for people with disabilities. A great reference for inclusive tourism. Luisa and Rodrigo have projects in mind to take their charming restaurant to another dimension, including launching gastronomic workshops with the town's neighbors.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nVery close by, in the Meanders of the Côa River, in Sabugal, you will enjoy a Forest Bath with Tiago to reconnect with nature and the serenity of the environment. These walks are capable of providing revitalizing and rejuvenating moments. It's that easy, letting yourself be guided in the middle of nature. \r\n \r\nAnother equally revitalizing experience isaccompanying a shepherd from the beautiful Sierra da La Estrellain his daily chores. Surely nothing to do with your daily life and that is exactly what catches you. Visit to a traditional farm, milking the goats, walking with the herd to the pastures and hills that surround the farm, tasting regional products at a picnic on the farm and, upon return, organizing the herd in the stable. Ready to spend the night and you to rest in your accommodation with the feeling of a job well done.\r\n \r\nVisit theIberian lynx recovery center, which fortunately is no longer an endangered breed. A mission that has taken decades of shared efforts between Portugal and Spain with very good results.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nThe Village of Idanha a Velha, small, tiny. The ancient Roman city next to the Vía de La Plata maintains its fortress, centuries-old olive trees, an imposing mulberry tree in the square where residents gather at sunset under its shade and a small hermitage that served as support for pilgrims. There, during the 20th century, the Marrocos family owned farmland and the set of unique offices that make up the Casa Grande with its unique \"Soft Portuguese\" style. Now it remains closed, immersed in the silence of the village and surrounded by fields. In the only bar in the village, Joan and Maria, a young couple who wanted to support their town and recover the old social bar so that it could once again serve as a meeting place for the town's residents, will prepare recipes for homemade food with human warmth.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n On a farm on the outskirts of Idanha a Velha, Tiago takes great care of a pasture and a beautiful olive grove with which he produces his own oil. He is an enthusiast of the environment and a lover of archaeology, he is interested in the aesthetic and historical value of the landscape and the restoration of agriculture, a great disseminator of the environmental, landscape and genetic heritage of the environment. His restless capacity for observation has led him to unearth a rustic Roman villa nestled among the olive trees with its own ancient winepress. As if destiny had it prepared for him. Listening to him while he walks around the farm is a master class on the landscape in all its dimensions. And he has created a route called \"Historical Roots\", in which he tells the story of the last 2,000 years of occupation of Idanha a Velha through its trees, among them, a 1,630-year-old olive tree (planted by the hands of a Roman) or the ash tree of King Wamba or the old mulberry tree that dates back to the silk industry,... It is his way of telling the evolution of the place through culture and landscape.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nThe Monsanto Village seems like a dream. Small houses between large granite masses. An unusual place with its powerful fortress that rises imposingly over the plains of Beira, between the foothills of the Garduña mountain range and the Ponsul river, and which served as the setting for the Games of Thrones series. In the 1930s it was considered the &ldquomost Portuguese village in Portugal&rdquo, an award for having known how to preserve its essence. Since then almost a century has passed and it maintains its essence.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\nCastelo Novo is reached by crossing the stream that comes down from the Sierra de Garduña. Another beautiful Historical Village, with aristocratic lineage and its 18th century baroque fountain, ordered to be built by King Joao V with Brazilian gold.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nAnd as icing on the cake, night in the small hotel that Miguel runs after enjoying a dinner made by himself with the \"Recipes that Tell Stories\", a very interesting project launched by the Historical Villages Association to collect, document and test the traditional recipes of each village. You will enjoy a unique historical-gastro-cultural experience with your host, who will take you \"shopping\" visiting several of the small agricultural producers in the area to pick up local products for dinner. They will tell you stories about their culture and their lives in the village. What better way than to get to know a place through the memory and experiences of its neighbors. Back at the hotel with a full shopping basket, Miguel will teach you how to make one of Castelo Novo's traditional recipes. And to top it all off, the big dinner seasoned with big and small conversations. An unrepeatable moment of communion and immersion in a territory through gastronomy, meetings with neighbors and your great host.\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nThese are some outlines of how you can enjoy and get to know, with Singular Spain, a very particular cross-border region of the Iberian Peninsula. We are certain that you are going to return home with a radiant soul.\r\n \r\nBARDENAS BARDENAS road-movie\\|\/María Pérez de Arenaza\\|\/\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nI leave here the latest musical road-movie by the artist Lucien Kimono, filmed in Las Bardenas Reales in Navarra, a Natural Park and Biosphere Reserve. In the desert.\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nCinematography by Simon Depardon\r\nOriginal music by Lucien Kimono\r\n \r\n \r\nLucien is the son of the French photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon, author of thebook RURAL, sponsored by the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, in which he portrayed the deepest roots of France between the 90s and the first decade of the 21st century.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n"
Cañada Real Conquense: Toledo, Cuenca and Teruel
Clash of landscapes in the Cañada Real Conquense\|/
From Guadalaviar and Tragacete, in the Montes Universales, transhumant shepherds still leave, before the cold weather begins, on their way to La Carolina in Andalusian lands.
This trip of three to five days, crosses endless plains, salt lagoons and La Mancha towns, passes through the impressive Belmonte castle and the beautiful city of Cuenca, suspended between sickles, crosses the pine and juniper forests of the Serranía de Cuenca, leaving behind breathtaking canyons and karst caves, until reaching the Universal Mountains of Teruel, the origin of one of the transhumant circuits that crosses the east of Spain from north to south. Nearby are the walls that guard the medieval town of Albarracín. In the tiny Turulense town of Guadalaviar you will have the opportunity to visit the moving Museum of Transhumance and also the universal merino cattle ranch that Diego González has been grazing for more than two decades, at 1,600m, among juniper and juniper trees.
A trip that unites three provinces: Toledo, Cuenca and Teruel, connecting cultures, landscapes, crafts, traditional and monumental architecture, artistic avant-garde and elaborate gastronomy around the Cañada Real Conquense in its Eastern branch (Los Chorros).
DAY 1- Arrival in Belmonte (Cuenca)
AFTERNOON
Sunset walk through the pleasant town of Belmonte, birthplace of Fray Luis de León and Juan Pacheco, first Marquis of Villena. There are two interesting places to visit:
The Collegiate Church of San Bartolomé, which preserves the font in which Fray Luis de León was baptized and important works including the baroque sculptor Francisco Salzillo.
The splendid Castle-Palace of Belmonte, whose view at dusk is marvelous. It is one of the best preserved medieval castles in Europe. It was built in 1456 by Juan Pacheco, the all-powerful Marquis of Villena, and Juana de Castilla (La Beltraneja) and the last empress of France, Eugenia de Montijo, temporarily resided there, who undertook the restoration works of the castle in the 19th century. Its palatial interiors preserve splendid Mudejar coffered ceilings and sculptural filigrees, the parade ground and a park of full-scale siege engines.
The castle was the filming location for the legendary film El Cid (1961), directed by Anthony Mann, with Charlton Heston and Sofía Loren. Today it is owned by the Fitz-James Stuart family.
DAY 2- Mota del Cuervo (Cuenca) and El Toboso (Toledo)
TOMORROW
Visit to one of the unique wineries found in the area with DO La Mancha and Protected Geographical Indication Vinos de la Tierra de Castilla.
Walk through the La Mancha town of Mota del Cuervo, dotted with stately homes and with the splendid El Balcón de La Mancha, a viewpoint with seven windmills, from where you can see the crossroads that linked Toledo with Cartagena and Cuenca with the south. Mota del Cuervo has a strong tradition in the production and marketing of pitchers, mainly carried out by women pitchers. Their industry came to hold “the tithe of the Cathars” and today, in their memory, the Moteña Pottery Museum organizes, once a year, a demonstration of traditional cooking in the medieval kiln “la Conce”, one of the two pottery kilns that remain in the town.
Potters' workshops
There are still three ceramic and pottery workshops in Mota del Cuervo dedicated to the production of traditional ceramics, two veteran potters and a younger boy, who has taken over to recover his grandmother's craft, in what was his childhood home and where he also teaches courses.
shopping with purpose
This town hides a fascinating story, a family of idealistic young people who have recovered the old family wool laundry, in order to reactivate the wool treatment processes from fleece to production, all under the same roof. They collaborate with livestock farmers in Spain, including Merino sheep, who take their bales of fleeces, until then destined to be undone, to become balls, sweaters, shawls and rugs of irresistible beauty. They have a shop-workshop in the town where they knit, make and sell balls and garments, handcrafted with wool from sheep that graze extensively, and especially with wool from migratory cattle. The stories behind the Wool4Life label provide unique and timeless value to each of their garments.
AFTERNOON
Visit toEl Toboso, where behind every corner it seems that the shadow of the knight of the sad figure is going to appear in search of his beloved Dulcinea. The town was saved from the destruction of the Napoleonic troops because they decided not to attack the homeland of Dulcinea... It has the unique Dulcinea del Toboso House-Museum, a 16th century building that recreates a house from the time.
AT SUNSET
One of the great moments of winter sunsets is approaching one of the lagoons that make up the La Mancha Húmeda Biosphere Reserve. In this particular area is the Manjavacas Lagoon, to see the spectacle of the flocks of common cranes arriving at their roosts, where they will spend the night with the flamingos.
DAY 3- Villaescusa de Haro and Cuenca
Stops on the way to the city of Cuenca
The town of Villaescusa de Haro keeps great architectural treasures, among them the beautiful altarpiece of the Asunción Chapel in the Church of San Pedro, and the Dominican Convent of the Santa Cruz, Hispania Nostra Award for its excellent restoration.
The Garcimuñoz Fortress in Castillo de Garcimuñoz, also owned by the Marquis of Villena, was recently restored (2010-2016) by Izaskun Chinchilla in a postmodern style, where contemporary sculpture is mixed with historical architecture. In this fortress, in 1479, the poet and Renaissance figure Jorge Manrique was mortally wounded, fighting against the forces of the Marquis of Villena (a supporter of Juana de Castilla “La Beltraneja”), and in defense of Isabel La Católica.
Cuenca city
It was a center of great relevance in the textile industry, it had its own Royal Carpet and Tapestry Factory for 175 years in the s. XVIII and XIX.
The city of Cuenca boasts an imposing old town with the spectacular image of the Hanging Houses on the escarpments formed by the Huécar River, and has a large collection of avant-garde and contemporary art spread across monumental religious and civil buildings, and with a relevant number of artisans dedicated to the crafts of ceramics, embroidery, wood and glass, whose work is brought together by the Cuenca Artisan Crafts Center in the old Casa del Cura next to the Church of Saint Peter.
DAY 4 – Noheda and Serranía de Cuenca
Before you go up to see Diego González's livestock in Los Montes Universales de Teruel, we recommend:
- delve a little deeper into the city and get closer to the splendid Roman Villa of Noheda in Noheda.
- or enter the Serranía de Cuenca Natural Park:
*Cañada del Hoyo lagoons (groundwater currents). Seven permanent lagoons in an unparalleled ecological environment of great scientific value. Its waters vary in color from blue and black to green tones, due to the rare microorganisms, almost unique in the world, that inhabit them.
*The Enchanted City in Valdecabras
*Devil's Window with spectacular views of the Júcar River ravine
*Hosquillo Natural Park, a hunting concentration area between cliffs and steep slopes covered with a dense pine forest. A splendid refuge for deer, mountain goats, fallow deer, as well as the brown bear and the Iberian wolf.
*The birth of the Cuervo River, a tributary of the Tagus, at the foot of the Muela de San Felipe, declaredNatural Monument for its great beauty.
In addition, the Serranía has one of the best skies in Spain due to its low light pollution.
DAY 5 – Guadalaviar and Albarracín (both in Teruel) in the Montes Universales
Village of Guadalaviar
Crossing the Serranía de Cuenca and passing through the medieval Puente de los Chorros in Huélamo, the meeting point of the two Cuenca ravines, you reach Guadalaviar. There the rancher Diego González awaits you to show you the Museo de La Trashumancia,dedicated to the culture of transhumance, when the ranchers left (and still leave) with their flocks towards the south in search of kinder temperatures and abundant pastures and whose families were waiting for their return six months later. This town and its neighbor Tragacete continue to be a concentration place for ranchers, and a few transhumants.
After visiting the museum, you will come to see the Universal Merinas livestock farm that Diego takes care of in Guadalaviar, under the flutter of griffon vultures and golden eagles. A perfect excuse to enjoy a day in the countryside with Diego and his flock, among conversations, juniper trees, juniper trees and high altitude grasses. Paths that will take you through an austere and deeply beautiful landscape.
In spring his sheep graze in the area of La Vega del Tajo, whose river originates a few kilometers away in Frías de Albarracín, and in summer Diego takes them to the highest hill where the pine forests grow.
Visit to Albarracín (Teruel)
National Monument and proposed to be declared a World Heritage Site, one of the most beautiful cities in Spain in a unique enclave, which preserves an unparalleled heritage. Among its legacy, textile crafts, a craft sector thriving for the quality of its wool, during the Middle Ages and modern times. At the end of the 18th century, it had 26 looms, and its cloth was sold at fairs throughout Spain and exported to factories in Marseille and Languedoc. You will find its history in the Albarracín Museum, which also houses one of the most interesting collections from the Islamic period in the country.
TheSanta María de Albarracín Foundation has been working for 30 years in the conservation of the historic city, restoring its heritage and promoting its culture, and they are in charge of conducting guided tours of its rich historical heritage.
Very close is the protected landscape of the Rodeno Pinares or resin forests that sit on wine-colored sandstones and grow in impossible places. A landscape with important samples of rock art that make up the Levantine Rock Art, a World Heritage Site.
LUNCHES AND DINNER
We recommend the best places to eat along the route. One of the places with an interesting and varied gastronomic offer is the city of Cuenca.
ACCOMMODATION
The Parador Nacional of Cuenca was the old convent of San Pablo, built in the beautiful place of Hoz del Huécar, one of the most special places in the city, next to the San Pablo Bridge and in front of the Hanging Houses. Today it shares space with the Espacio Torner, dedicated to the work of Cuenca artist Gustavo Torner, housed in the old Gothic temple of the Convent of San Pablo.
DATES TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT
Historical Recreation Days at Belmonte Castle, recreate the life of warriors, artisans, doctors, monks, lords or peasants recreated by specialists in Living History and in period clothing.
National and international medieval combat tournaments at Belmonte Castle, a spectacular contact sport with period weapons and armor.
Traditional grinding in Mota del Cuervo, every Saturday grinding is carried out in the "El Gigante" mill.
Juan Haldud Cervantes Conference in La Tercia Real de Mota del Cuervo in which speakers from all over the world participate, organized by the Association of Friends for the History of Mota del Cuervo, the City Council and the Golden Age Research Group (GRISO) of the University of Navarra.
CALENDAR: APRIL
Cervantine Days in El Toboso
CALENDAR: APRIL
Journey to the heart of La Mancha
JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF LA MANCHA\|/
La Mancha sounds like Don Quixote, of windmills, of a sun of justice and infinite plains, of whitewashed and indigo blue facades, of Manchego cheese, saffron, purple garlic and infinite extensions of vineyards that produce a not very recognized wine.
But there is much more...
In the very heart of its sunny plains is a mosaic of plantations that serve as a sanctuary for steppe birds. A landscape dotted with hundreds of lagoons that also concentrates a spectacular array of migratory birds. This wetland landscape is so valuable that it has been declared a Biosphere Reserve of La Mancha Húmeda and Special Protection Area for Birds (SPA Mancha Norte), it contains the Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park and the Las Lagunas del Ruidera Natural Park, where the Guadiana River is said to be born, there or very nearby, in Los Ojos del Guadiana.
Quixotic idealists
In this very unknown landscape you are going to visit quixotic idealists who with their professions strive to enhance their land. Among them, guardians of the windmills, whose mission is to guard and restore the ingenious wooden machinery that they keep inside. Also those dedicated to pottery, an activity that many La Mancha towns lived off for generations, when their giant Arab kilns conditioned the appearance of the neighborhoods. At that time, 4-meter jars were produced to store wine, so huge that they needed 16 men to get them in and out of the oven. But when our grandparents stopped working there was hardly any generational change. There are still underground cellars with their old jars and in Villarobledo, which was an industrial center for tinajeros, there are still at the foot of the canyon, a tinajero and a tinajera, although their jars have been reduced to one and a half meters. Scattered across the plain, among endless expanses of vineyards and cereals, you will find unique winemakers who cultivate their vines in small plots to produce wines made with care, care and respect, dedicated to ensuring that their quality is recognized at a national level. Some heroes among so much mammoth bulk production. A family from Mota del Cuervo wanted to recover their grandparents' old wool washhouse, and among fascinating machinery, they carry out the entire process of wool treatment from the fleeces, which arrive from the ranchers, to the making of wonderful cloths, in order to return the value to the wool that it deserves. Another family of young people sculpts marbles in the land of garlic, which is Pedroñeras, popular sculptures, classic replicas and beauties of contemporary design that has catapulted them to international recognition....
Windmills
These relics of traditional and cultural architecture proliferated throughout the hilltops of La Mancha starting in the 16th century to make the most of the dry and windy climate. But at the end of the 19th century they could not compete with the electric mills introduced by the flour industry and, little by little, their blades stopped rotating. A few still do the grinding so as not to forget its cultural weight, its beautiful image and its starring role in the adventures of the nobleman Don Quixote and his faithful squire Sancho Panza.
(...) "Look, your worship," answered Sancho, "that those that look like there are not giants, but windmills, and what look like arms on them are the blades, which, turned by the wind, make the millstone move." "It seems well," replied Don Quixote, "that you are not trained in this business of adventures: they are giants; And if you are afraid, get out of there, and pray in the space that I am going to enter with them in a fierce and unequal battle. (...)
Part One, Chapter VIII of Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
In addition to the mills, among the landscape jewels of La Mancha, there are remains of traditional architecture: underground cellars, chimneys of old distilleries, inns, inns, farmhouses, silos and, most especially, the drums that can be seen among the crop fields, dry stone constructions, of moving beauty, that served as refuge for the farmers.
Illustrious figures of La Mancha
It is said that Miguel de Cervantes was locked up for a few months in Argamasilla de Alba and that there underground and by the light of a lamp he began Don Quixote of La Mancha; Francisco de Quevedo spent years of exile in Torre de Juan Abad and died in Villanueva de Los Infantes; Fray Luis de León was born in the town of Belmonte with its splendid castle and collegiate church; and Alcaraz was the birthplace of the Renaissance architect Andrés de Vandelvira. The poet and warrior Jorge Manrique spent long periods in the premises of the medieval castle of Montizón, when he was not doing so in his house in Villamanrique, he died fighting in the Castle of Garcimuñoz, and lies buried in the Monastery of Uclés; The painter and sculptor Antonio López García and his uncle Antonio López Torres, before him, have immortalized the landscapes of La Mancha; and one of our great contemporary filmmakers Pedro Almodóvar, a man from La Mancha with roots, has set films such as Volver and La flor de mi secreto in his land.
La Mancha Gastronomy
Transhumant cattle still parade through the Cañada Real Conquense, the busiest ravine in Spain, which connects the pastures of the Guadalquivir valley with the Sierra de Albarracín in Teruel. But the owners and mistresses of the plains of La Mancha are the pure-bred Manchego sheep, whose milk produces one of the most recognized Spanish cheeses outside our borders, Manchego cheese with Protected Designation of Origin (D.O.P). As they also have their D.O.P. the cultivation of saffron, the most expensive spice in the world, and our liquid gold, extra virgin olive oil, and another delight, the red partridge of the steppes. La Mancha cares for and promotes its gastronomy because it knows that today it is its source of wealth and prestige.
Towns
There are towns like Tembleque, Almagro and San Carlos del Valle that preserve their magnificent squares where the popular comedy corrals were held, which became fashionable during the Golden Age of Spanish literature. Works by Lope de Vega, Luis de Góngora, Calderón de la Barca, Miguel de Cervantes, Francisco de Quevedo... were performed there, and are still performed every year at the Almagro Festival. Towns like Alcaraz and San Clemente with Renaissance jewels; Belmonte with its magnificent collegiate church and the imposing castle; the beautiful town of Alarcón with a fairytale medieval castle and the surprising Jesús Mateo Mural Painting museum in the deconsecrated San Juan Bautista church, protected by UNESCO; Campo de Criptana with its wonderful albaicín and its ten windmills; and as a final cherry on top, the beautiful image, which has gone around the world, of mills and fortress on the Consuegra hill.
Off route
The largest medieval site in our country
Outside our route, bordering Andalusia lies the largest medieval site in our country, the Castle of La Estrella de Montiel (Ciudad Real). In that place, the Tragedy of Montiel (1369) took place, in which the half-brothers and aspirants to the throne of Castile, Pedro I the Cruel and Enrique de Trastámara, faced each other in hand-to-hand combat.
The "Sistine Chapel" of mining heritage
In the extreme southwest of La Mancha you can visit what is considered the "Sistine chapel" of mining heritage, the Almadén Mining Park (Ciudad Real), which dates back to the Romans and is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In the extreme northeast is the impressive monumental complex of Uclés (Cuenca) with an eventful history and present. Very close by is Segóbriga, one of the best preserved Roman cities in the Iberian Peninsula, which was established next to the mines of lapis specularis, a translucent stone that was taken to Imperial Rome for its constructions.
And to the northwest Toledo, UNESCO World Heritage Site, where you return again and again. One of the most beautiful and most interesting cities in the country. The walled city that El Greco portrayed, where its beautiful Cathedral and churches coexist with a mosque and two synagogues, raised on a hill and at its feet the Tagus. And it recently houses part of Roberto Polo's contemporary art collection.
There is a lot of Mancha to cover. A little-known territory with a lot to discover.
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