Guía Turística inglés de MANZANARES El Real

Guía Turística inglés de MANZANARES El Real

GUÍA
TURíS
Tourist Guide 2009
TICA
MANZANARES EL REAL
ACTIVE TOURISM
MUNICIPALITY OF MANZANARES EL REAL
turística
Guía
C O M U N I DA D D E M A D R I D
2009
TOURIST GUIDE
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Contents:
General information, location and connections with Madrid
What to visit:
DEL GUADARR
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Parque Regional de la
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Alta del Manzanares
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La Pedriza
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La Pedriza (Parque Regional
de la Cuenca Alta del Manzanares). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Schematic map of La Pedriza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Information centre for Environmental Education. . . . . . . . . 9
Hiking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Coruña
. . . . . . 9
Climbing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Navacerrada
10
N-VI
Pto. de
Navacerrada
El Escorial
Cycling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Guadarrama
10
The river Manzanares and fishing. . . . . . . . . . . . .Collado
. . . Villalba
. . . 11
Miraflores
Manzanares
El Real
08
M-6
M
M-608
Burgos
N-I
Soto
del Real
Torrelaguna
-8
Cerceda
Where to sleep and eat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
62
9
60
MColmenar Viejo
San Agustín
de Guadalix
Circuito
del Jarama
Access from Madrid capital
Torrelodones
M-607
2
By road:
San Sebastián
de los Reyes
Alcobendas
M-607 (highway direction Colmenar Viejo)
until connecting, at the end of highway,
with the M-609, previously the M-862,
and finally with the M-608.
Madrid
Extremadura
N-V
Aeropuerto
Barajas
Barcelona
N-II
M30
By bus:
M40
Bus station Plaza de Castilla, bus line 724
Toledo
N-401
M50
Valencia
N-III
Andalucia
N-IV
MANZANARES EL REAL
At a distance of 50 km from Madrid, following the highway of Colmenar Viejo, the village of Manzanares El Real
offers to its visitors an exclusive natural environment: el Parque Regional de la Cuenca Alta del Manzanares. It
comprises the whole of the municipality of Manzanares El Real, a location which gives access to the area of the
most ecological value and with the Park's highest protection level: La Pedriza.
Although this territory was protected since 1930, with the objective to stop the deterioration that this natural area
was suffering because of the uncontrolled influx of visitors, the region was declared Parque Regional in 1985. As
from 1992 it was included in the global network of Reserves of the Biosphere, with different protection levels, La
Pedriza de Manzanares being the most protected area and as such qualifying as an Integral Reserve for cherishing
within its borders barely changed ecosystems.
To get to know its valuable ecosystems: woods of stone oaks, area of river and brooklets, the Santillana lake, La
Pedriza and the high mountain area represented by the Cuerda Larga, the best thing to do is entering in its interior
without leaving the indicated paths and thus strictly respecting the norm –the earth doesn't belong to us, but
to our children– a slogan that guarantees its conservation. A natural inheritance for all those who are looking for
a natural and relaxed view, now and in the future.
Apart from the interesting natural, historical and artistic heritage and the continuous sport events that are being
organised, Manzanares El Real is increasing its attractive tourist offer with an unexpected selection of hotel accommodation, as well as with a huge number of apartments and chalets which are being rented out during stays
that vary from weekends to the complete summer vacation period.
For the more adventurous people, Manzanares also counts with a group hostel, a camping-site at the foot of the
mountain range and a guarded refuge (Giner de los Ríos) in the heart of La Pedriza.
Public institutions, Associations and, more importantly, the inhabitants of Manzanares, cordial hosts being
acquainted with the natural prodigy and the cultural heritage of this area, daily enjoy, take care and enrich each
remote place in this village with the aim to offer the most brilliant selection of Art, Culture and Landscape of the
Comunidad of Madrid to its visitors
Welcome to everyone
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Las Torres de La Pedriza (Pedriza posterior)
MANZANARES EL REAL
La Pedriza
peculiar aroma. In the higher areas the creeping juniper
In the Parque Regional de la Cuenca Alta del Manzanares
The vulture is the indisputable king of the fauna of La
you can find La Pedriza de Manzanares. A fantastic
Pedriza, while the mountain goats (cabra montés) are
composition of eroded and rounded rocks, complex
widely spread in its most hidden parts.
hidden places of contrasting colours and irregular forms.
The legend is not far away in this natural caprice. La
As from the village it is only possible to observe two of
Cueva de La Mora (the cave of the Arab girl) owes its
the three areas in which the famous geologist Casiano
name to the legend that a young girl was locked inside
de Prado divided La Pedriza, a distribution equally
in this cave to keep her far away from a Christian boy
adopted by Bernaldo de Quirós and that nowadays, a
being in love with her.
hundred years later, is still being valid: El Acornocal, La
Equally, in the previous century these rock formations
Pedriza Anterior and La Pedriza Posterior, three clearly
formed a perfect hiding place for numerous groups
different rock massifs.
of bandits who inhabited these mountains, whose
The summit, easy to be seen from a distance of dozens
anecdotes gave their names to a lot of stones, amongst
of kilometres, gives honour to its name: El Yelmo (Ro-
others it is worthwhile mentioning El Cancho de los
man helmet), but this enormous rock is not the roof of
Muertos (the ledge of the dead).
this mountain range, that is Las Torres (the Towers), a
range of peaks that can be observed in the background.
However, the highest mountain of the whole park is the
Cabeza de Hierro at a height of 2383 m.
In this universe of minerals, cork oaks, brambles, rock
roses, oaks and hawthorns hardly root, vegetation that
progressively diminishes when reaching La Pedriza
posterior, where pine trees are growing. In the lower
parts, these pine woods compete with stone oaks
and rock roses, that permeate the atmosphere with its
and the broom survive in this pure rocky soil.
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El Dedo de Dios
Las Torresde Pedriza
Peña del Rayo
La Bota
El Risquin
El Nevazo
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Crestas de
las Milaneras
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Río
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Mogote de
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TRACK
RIVER/BROOKLET
ROCK FORMATION
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Los Hermanitos Risco de los Hoyos
Aguja Ruau
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La Perra Gorda
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Risco de las Nieves
El Hombre
Tres Cestos
Sentado
Cancho
COLLADO DE LA VENTANA
Risco de las Damas
Centeno
Risco del
Risco de la
Puente de
Ventana
na
los Pollos
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La Corona
Pared de Santillana
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Caballo
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Tres Cestitos
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Mogote de
Majada de Quila
Dos Torres los Suicidas PRADERA DE LOS NAVAJUELOS
MAJADA DE QUILA
Tienda de
La Tortuga
Campaña
LOS LLANILLOS
La Bola de los Navajuelos
El Torro
Los Molondrios Cuatro Cestos
Cancho de San Isidro
El Teodomiro
El Falso
El Mataelvicial
Molondrio
El Buda
El
Capuchino
La Muela
Cancho Amarillo Mogote de la
PUENTE DE
Nido de Buitre
Dehesilla
LOS LOBOS
PORTILLO
Torre de Quila
Peñalarco o Hueso
El Elefante
COLLADO DE LA DEHESILLA
lla
Las Buitreras
Pajarito
El Trípode
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Aguja
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o
Arroy
Jorge Prat
Las Cuatro
Damas
Los Fantasmas
Charca Verde
La Momia
La
Cara
El Vigía
COLLADO CABRÓN
Bola de San Bernardo
Risco
El Vigilante
Refugio
Senda del
El Acebo
Giner de los Ríos
Arroyo Horcajo
La Mano de Dios
Peña
El Centinela
La Mujer
Horcajo
La Caperucita
co
El Matadero
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R
o
y
Arro
y el Hato
La Maza
El Dante
Cancho de
Los Caballeros
los Muertos
Rendueles
El Cáliz El Castillo
Peña
del
Corral del Yelmo
El Cancho
El Camello
Yelmo
Chozo
Coladero
Kindelan
Elefantito
Las
Tres
del Yelmo
Gracias
Risco de
Aguja
La Peseta
Manuel Iradier
COLLADO DE LA ENCINA
El Risco
Yuyu
Peñas Cagás
Peña Sirio
La Cara de la Gran Cañada
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LA GRAN CAÑADA
Losillos
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Peña del
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Ofertorio
Canto
LAS CANCHAS DE MANZANARES Cueva de
Cochino
Ave María
Paso Paleto
Cara del Indio
COLLADO DE LA CUEVA
Risco Ratos
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de
Río
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La Aguja de Singer
El Pulpito
no
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La Esfinge
La Pedriza
COLLADO CARABINA
LA CAMORZA
EL ALCORNOCAL
B
Schematic map of the rivers, rock-formations
and tracks of la Pedriza anterior and posterior,
not based on topographic scale.
Route of the Carboneras
to El Yelmo
This territory is Regional Park and Reserve of the Biosphere covering medium and high mountain ranges
Take care of yourself and the territory. That nobody will notice your presence
Before starting a route inform yourself of the
difficulty-level and where it ends
Inform yourself about the weather forecast
Walk on the indicated paths
Making a fire and camping is forbidden
Taking all the waste that you generate and putting it
in the appropriate containers will guarantee a clean day-after
Park your car only in the indicated areas
Route to the Cara del Indio, Collado de la Cueva…
B
Entrance to
La Pedriza
through the
gorge of
La Camorza
H
PRADERA
DEL RODAJE
PR-M1
H
Ermita de laa
Peña Sacr
H
Club de Pesca
CENTRO
SALUD
Coto de
pesca
Parque la
Hora Joven
Castillo de los
Mendoza
H
Fuente de las Ermitas
CENTRO DE
EDUCACIÓN AMBIENTAL
Club Hípico
A
H
Castillo Viejo
Puente
Medieval
Nuestra Señora
de las Nieves
Entrance to La Pedriza through the
Collado de Quebrantaherraduras
Cementerio
PANTANO DE SANTILLANA
CAÑADA REAL
SEGOVIANA
Molino del
Cura
Coto de
pesca
MANZANARES EL REAL
Information Centre for
Environmental Education
Hiking
The whole area constitutes an ecosystem that is worth-
between the high plains of Castilla and Madrid, pre-
while being observed by the students of nature and its
scribed passage for shepherds that moved their cattle
various species of plants and animals in a protected
through Spain (Cañada Real Segoviana, from Gibraltar
environment. It concerns a special fauna and flora,
to Soria, year 1273) and travellers (Long Distance
generally rather unknown, that make the ecologists
Tracks GR-10, from Valencia to Lisbon, 600km) which
quite enthusiastic and that can be contemplated from
have created a huge number of smaller tracks, named
various perspectives, also in the lake's most distant
PR (Short Distance Tracks), indicated with yellow-white
places, thanks to the observation huts available in its
marks, that are introduced in the park and give us the
direct surroundings.
opportunityw to enjoy the beautiful landscape.
For this reason, apart from routes meant to learn and
When recently the Saint James Route to Santiago
understand the natural environment, the centre is often
(320 km from Madrid to Sahagún, year 1987), was
destiny for study days organized by various educational
re-opened, Manzanares El Real has become again
centres that participate in the Educational Programmes
an obliged passage due to its privileged geographic
(91 853 99 78).
situation.
In the beginning, Manzanares was traversed by paths
In La Pedriza many tracks wind between rocks and
small passages with suggestive names, like the
Elephant Rock (El Elefante), the Chicken Bridge (El
Puente de los Pollos) or the Calyx (El Cáliz) creating
routes of one to various hours that even satisfy the
most demanding hikers.
It can equally be said of the tracks that exist between
the unique spots situated in the surroundings of the
river Manzanares and the Santillana Lake.
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Climbing
Cycling
For thousands of climbers Manzanares has been a start-
Few municipalities of the Comunidad of Madrid are
ing point to clamber the mountain-sides and corners
so prepared to receive cyclists and bikers as Man-
of the geological caprice of La Pedriza.
zanares is.
School by excellence of the Escalada Madrileña (Madrid
As being labelled as a natural reserve, Manzanares
Climbing) from its beginning (Casiano del Prado, first
El Real is broadly charted and is being traversed by
climb to the Yelmo for geographical purposes in the
numerous tracks and kilometres of paths that allow
middle of the 19th century; Zabala, Meliá y Bellido, first
to pedal in groups or in solitary, in each season from
climb to the Pájaro, 1916), La Pedriza has been col-
January until December.
lecting in its mountain-walls the whole development of
Two main tracks enter into the area: the so-called “Las
this sport until the 8th level.
Zetas”, that starting from Canto Cochino goes up until
El Capuchino, La Isla de Pascua, El Cáliz, El Pájaro,
1710 m westwards, and, apart from that, the one that
El Yelmo, names for an unlimited number of historical
is called La Hoya de San Blas, that, starting from the
rocks as from where the climbers can contemplate the
M-608 in km 20.5, covers the east side of the granite
largest natural reserve of the Comunidad of Madrid
massif of La Pedriza.
MANZANARES EL REAL
The river Manzanares
Another quite different aspect of this Natural Park is
the upper course of the river Manzanares. The origin
of this natural designer, that excavates valleys and
gorges in the mountain range, is located in the Alto
de Guarramillas (2.160m), where its flow is brave
and crystal clear thanks to the melting water. The
river-sides are full of heather and scattered rocks that
serve as a nesting place for the dippers that, together
with the trout, are the most abundant species within
in the middle of the drought; autumn, with its rich
mixture of colours varying from yellow to the most
intense red; or wintertime, where you can enjoy an
incomparable silence.
Fishing
During the whole year, the river Manzanares hosts
interesting species for sport-fishing. Along the river
and in the Santillana lake, various reserved stretches
exist for practising this sport, as well as a fish-
the animal kingdom of the area.
It is difficult to tell what the best moment is to visit
ing club for fly fishing without killing, and another
fishing club, the Alto Manzanares (91 852 70 65),
responsible for the first fishing-spot in consortium
the park; springtime, with all the brave waterfalls
and the unfolding scenes of birds and amphibians
with the Comunidad of Madrid, where proliferate the
common trout (Fario), the rainbow trout (Arco Iris)
that take place every year; summertime, fresh oasis
as well as the carp and the pike.
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Where to sleep
Camping
Casa Rural
Hoja de Roble
Hotel
Hotel Rural
Pensión
Refugio
Where to eat
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Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar
Bar Comidas
Bodega
Cafetería
Cervecería
Churrería
Discoteca
Heladería
Kiosco/Terraza
Kiosco/Terraza
Pizzería
Restaurante
Restaurante
Restaurante
Restaurante
Restaurante
Restaurante
Restaurante
Restaurante
Restaurante
Restaurante
Restaurante/Cafetería
El Ortigal
La Escala
Mirador La Maliciosa
Parque Real
La Pedriza
El Yelmo
Giner de los Ríos
Calle Montañero, 19
Calle Rincón Canarias, 4
Avda. Pedriza, 60
Calle Padre Damián, 4
Calle Urumea, 8
Avda. de la Pedriza, 69
Reserva
91 853 01 20
600 450 741
91 852 70 65
91 853 99 12
91 852 89 00
91 853 06 55
659 021 754
Casa de León
El Chanquete
El Fogón de Ana
El Paraíso
El Picadero
El Pulpo de la Sierra
La Montería
La Taurina
Maliciosa
Peces
Pedriza City
El Molino
La Cañada
Manín
Cañada 49
La Rosca
13-58
La Jijonenca
La Hora Joven
La Huerta
Pizzareal
Asador de Carmen
Casa Goyo
Casa Julián
Casa Parra
Charca Verde
El Yelmo
La Cocina de mi Suegra
La Taurina
Parque Real
Rincón del Alba
La Jara de La Pedriza
Calle de los Frailes, 6
Calle Panaderos, 16
Calle del Marqués de Santillana, 3
Calle Panaderos, 27
Avda. de la Paz, s/n
Calle de la Cañada, 32
Calle Real, 8
Plaza del Pueblo, 7
Avda. de la Pedriza, 58
Avda. de Madrid, 16
Plaza del Raso, 7
Calle Camino de la Peña Sacra, 26
Calle de la Cañada, 19
Plaza del Pueblo, 1
Calle de la Cañada, 37
Calle de Correos, 4
Avda. de la Paz, s/n
Plaza del Pueblo, 14
Avda. de la Pedriza, s/n
Calle Colmenar, 17
Calle de la Cañada, 41-43
Calle Real, 5
Plaza del Sagrado Corazón, 2
Avda. de la Pedriza, 128
Calle Panaderos, 15
Plaza del Raso, 9
Avda. de la Pedriza, 69
Calle de la Cañada de Toros, 27
Plaza del Pueblo, 8
Calle del Padre Damián, 4
Calle de la Paloma, 2
Calle Panaderos, 6
91 853 08 85
91 853 94 82
91 853 93 89
665 704 394
608 314 269
91 852 72 48
659 896 290
91 853 93 89
91 852 70 65
91 853 07 23
91 852 76 99
91 853 98 46
91 855 80 21
91 853 94 89
91 853 94 88
91 855 87 99
91 853 04 87
91 853 90 71
610 811 867
91 853 94 84
91 853 97 48
91 852 85 01
91 853 94 84
91 853 04 86
91 853 94 60
91 853 03 57
91 853 06 55
91 855 88 06
91 853 93 89
91 853 99 12
91 853 91 11
91 853 93 38
Tourist
Guide
Consejería de Cultura y Turismo
Dirección General de Turismo
902 100 007
[email protected]
www.madrid.org
Ayuntamiento de Manzanares El Real
Concejalía de Turismo
91 853 00 09
[email protected]
www.manzanareselreal.es