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Probably the most glaring difference between the summer and winter visitors to La Vera is the regularity of the former and the irregularity of the latter. Those birds that come here to breed always ...

On the slopes of the Sierra de Gredos, a formation of exactly identical and perfectly aligned greyish crosses stands in the shadow of 26 olive trees. In an endeavor to escape oblivion, this mysterious ...

On October 29, 2021, the Spanish Ministry of Culture announced that the National Prize for the Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Assets 2021 had been awarded to María Pía Timón Tiemblo, coordinator ...

Goatherding is part of her genetic makeup. Maribel Sánchez and her family have been cattle ranchers for five generations in the highlands of El Raso near the village of Candeleda. At age 49, this...

One by one the splendid songsters of spring’s concert fall silent in summer. Nightingales and blackbirds peter out in June, golden orioles a couple of weeks later. Blackcaps hang on into July but ...

The center of the mural is taken up by a music band. Around them are some traditional dancers turning around a pole with colored ribbons. Located in the center of Jarandilla (Calle Antonio Serrano, ...

"Locus amoenus" is what Theocritus and Virgil called the idyllic setting offered to us by nature. A postcard landscape where water runs, trees provide shade and birds give us their song. Consuelo López-Zuriaga ...

The Spanish landscape designer Eduardo Mencos has spent the past 8 years leading the effort to have the region of La Vera to be recognized as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Besides designing some of the ...

Birdsong in La Vera peaks in the first fortnight of May. Many nightingales are singing all night and much of the following morning. After a short afternoon rest (the siesta must be a sweet relief)...

El Cinorrio is the project founded by Lucas Rodríguez, with the help of the Distributed Citizen’s Laboratories program at the prestigious cultural center Medialab Prado in Madrid. It seeks to recover ...

Clemente Cebrián Mosquera has been a resident of Madrigal de la Vera since 2015, the same year in which L Capital, an investment group of the LVMH group, bought 49% of his company El Ganso. The fashion ...

"Look at this cheese, it is smooth, a quality that raw milk confers it, and it is covered with paprika, you are going to love it." Manuel Jaramillo is passionate about local products and a ...

A notebook, a pen and a mobile phone for taking pictures, almost all the participants on the botanical walk carry these basic elements with them. For over two hours, a small group of about ten nature ...

La Vera is a symphony of greens right now. The climax tree here, the Pyrenean Oak (Quercus pyrenaica) doesn't really put on a great show in autumn; it just goes dowdy. But in spring it dazzles. Its ...

The paprika de la Vera has the honor of placing this region on the world gastronomic map.

There are a great variety of ground peppers, but that of La Vera de Gredos is the...

The Yuste Monastery is a calm place, as if standing still in time. That is how Luis de Ávila, Marquis of Mirabel, found it when it was a Monastery of the Hieronymites in the 16th century, and this ...

They appear like ships stranded in the middle of the open field, some have been in disuse for decades, however the landscape of La Vera would not be the same without them. The tobacco and paprika drying ...

Hike to Castañarillo, Losar de la Vera:

Its duration is 3 hours and it is about 8 KM with low difficulty. This circular route is distinguished by its beautiful views. It starts ...

When arriving to La Vera de Gredos, what most surprises the visitor is the exuberance of the surrounding nature. "This is a paradise!", the visitor tends to add when taking a first walks in the countryside. ...