The archaeological
park of the Marrows
is one of the most
important mining remains of the Roman epoch.
The former mounts Medulios with the effort
of the Romans for obtaining the valued
golden metal, have turned into this singular
landscape. Antigua zone of Celtiberian
hopscotches that later were romanized, as
the villa romanized of Pedreiras, in the
lake Carucedo and the metallurgical
settlement located in Orellán.
It counts the legend that in the people of
the Medulas was the commander native of
Asturias Médulo who from the top of the
mountains faced to the Roman legions, but
the superiority of these I end with the
native resistance, which men prefirieron the
death for fire and poison (of yew) before
that the surrender, giving origin like that
to the name.
24 km to the west of Ponferrada, for the
N-536, Road of Orense. It has been the major
one of the auriferous deposits exploited by
the Romans to sustain his empire.
Proclaimed Heritage of the Humanity for the
UNESCO in 1997.
In his environment we recommend to visit the
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The valley of
the Silence
It is a question of a zone
included in the Inventory of Natural Spaces of
the former I.C.O.N.A (1977 - 1980) and
considered as point of biological international
interest. The valley departs from Peñalba's term
of Santiago (29TQH025003) and thinks up hillside
arrives along the acquaintance as Creek of the
Silence up to reaching levels near to 2.000
meters in the place known as the ice seller
The combination of rich and poor substrata in
bases that one gives in this valley, together
with the difference altitudinal, they offer a
set of vegetable very diverse communities,
besides relics as the copies of oak, which seem
to be hung of the limy crestones, and vegetable
species of ideally Atlantic. This one is the
case of Dabra cantabricae subsp. izcoi and other
endemismos bercianos: Leontodon farinosus,
Harebell arbatica subsp. adsurgens. Likewise, we
can find zones of melojo, chestnut-tree or of
forest ripario formed by black poplars, alder-trees
and ash-trees.
Besides the fires that take
place in the zone, it is necessary to indicate
that the zone also can consider to be threatened
by increasingly frequent presence of the man of
city, who meets attracted to the zone for the
beauty of the landscape, the monumental wealth
and the legend preserved across the centuries.
For the zone it thinks up the known one as Path
of the Monks that, departing from Saint Thomas
de las Ollas, crosses great part of the
municipality to come to Peñalba of Santiago, and
the Circular Path of the Tebaida Berciana, with
point of origin and arrival in Valdueza's Mounts.
Peñalba's distance of Santiago to Ponferrada:
17.5 km for 158/4 and 191/6.
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Valle de
Manzanedo de Valdueza
And
new we are in a point of biological interest, in
this case of regional interest. The people of
Manzanedo de Valdueza is in the head-board of
the valley furrowed by the creek of the same
name.
In this valley there remain a few forests of
bank of high ecological value. They are a
recollection of epochs in which the climatology
was of moderate character. Here they find
magnificent copies of ash-trees and elms of
mountain, close to vegetable species like Pyrola
minor and a good number of ferns in ideal
condition.
Manzanedo de Valdueza's distance to Ponferrada:
15 km for 158/4 and 191/6.
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Palacios de Compludo
One agrees on cuarcitas,
sandstones and slates belonging to the primary age (Cambrian. Series of
the Ends).
It is in 1986 when Compludo's Palaces, as other peoples of the mountain
berciana, it loses his last inhabitants due to the bad communications
and the hardness of the living conditions. In 1999, the collaboration
between the residents association " the Walnut " and the group "Tyto
Alba", sees as his works of rehabilitation they begin to give fruits
from the agreement signed for the conservation of the natural
environment in which SEO-Birdlife takes part.
This way there arises the
Reservation destined for the conservation of the species of avian fauna
that they live in the zone and to the accomplishment of activities of
environmental education, across three routes created to announce his
environment: Valley of the Bear, Bouzas's Route and the route that goes
of Palaces to Carracedo de Compludo.
Distance of Compludo's
Palaces to Ponferrada: 22 km. For the LE-142 and 192/20.
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El
Morredero,
We emphasize this zone
because besides the possible biological interest that could have all his
environment as formingly of the Mounts Aquilianos, it is a question of a
recognized place of geological interest, with interests of stratigraphic,
tectonic and geomorphologic type. It is a question of a zone belonging
to the low Paleozoico.
Recreative area destined for the practice of the ski.
Distance of The Morredero to Ponferrada: 26 km for 158/4 and 192/21. |
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Los Ancares
It is one of the
most unknown natural zones of the whole European continent. His
geographical isolation has allowed that they should come to the present
day preserving a fullly virgin nature and a few customs that still are
kept foreign to any exterior influence.
The most significant element of the popular architecture of the zone
constitutes it the palloza or house of teito (stony construction of
Celtic origin, with circular or elliptical and covered form of straw)
that simultaneously uses as housing, stable and barn.
It is interesting to visit San Andrés's Monastery in Espinareda's Vega
of neoclassic style.
Villafranca of the Bierzo
There is declared historical artistic monumental set.
Noble Casonas, churches convents and palaces.
Cacabelos
Castro de la Ventosa: Placed in a nice distant height 1 km
from Cacabelos constitutes one of the most interesting
hopscotches of the province and that of major dimensions of the Spanish
Northwest.
Archaeological museum and museum of the wine.
Peñalba's Santiago
To 18 km from Villanueva, happening for San Esteban of
Valdueza, ValdeFrancos and San Clemente of Valdueza.
Beautiful people, example of rural architecture slept in the
time. Historical artistic national set.
The tour allows to contemplate the impressive beauty of the
Valley of the Silence.
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