The Sierras of Extremadura. Gisela Radant Wood

      Gisela Radant Wood is a walker, writer, photographer, avid reader and passionate about Extremadura. She has lived in the Sierra de Montánchez for the past 10 years and walks there on a regular basis. Home is a finca outside the village of Almoharín with a husband, a dog, seven sheep, occasional lambs, four hens and 150 olive trees. Ten years ago Gisela set up the website www.walkingextremadura.com and is actively involved in promoting the area as a walking paradise. This is her second book about walking in Extremadura.

      Gisela loves the social side of walking with friends in the Almoharín walking group, but really prefers the quiet of walking alone in the countryside she loves.

      © Gisela Radant Wood 2017

      First edition 2017

      ISBN: 978 1 85284 848 4

      Printed by KHL Printing, Singapore

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

       Route mapping by Lovell Johns www.lovelljohns.com

      Contains OpenStreetMap.org data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. NASA relief data courtesy of ESRI

      All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.

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      Front cover: Trevejo Castle dominates the small village of Trevejo in the western Sierra de Gata

      CONTENTS

       Map key

       Overview map

       INTRODUCTION

       Geography and geology

       Animals and birds

       Flowers and plants

       Human history

       Getting there

       Getting around

       When to go

       Bases and accommodation

       Food and drink

       Language

       Money

       Communications

       What to take on a walk

       Waymarking

       Maps

       Health and emergencies

       Using this guide

       THE NORTHERN SIERRAS: THE SISTEMA CENTRAL

       Sierra de Gata

       Walk 1 San Martín de Trevejo and the Sierra de Eljas

       Walk 2 Pico Jálama

       Walk 3 Puerto de Castilla and Pico Jañona

       Walk 4 Castillo de Almenara and the Sierra de las Jañonas

       Walk 5 Robledillo de Gata and Ovejuela

       Sierra de Béjar

       Walk 6 La Garganta and El Nevero

       Walk 7 La Muela and the forest track

       Walk 8 The valley route to La Muela

       Sierra de Gredos

       Walk 9 Cascadas Nogaleas in the Montes de Tras la Sierra

       Walk 10 Los Pilones and Puente Sacristán

       Walk 11 Jerte to Puente Nuevo in the Sierra de Tormantos

       Walk 12 Puente los Papúos in the Montes de Tras la Sierra

       Walk 13 The Jaranda valley

       Walk 14 Guijo de Santa Bárbara and El