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Bardenas Reales De Navarra

Scenic Descent in the Bardenas Reales

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Bardenas Reales De Navarra

Scenic Descent in the Bardenas Reales

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Scenic Descent in the Bardenas Reales

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Location: Bardenas Reales De Navarra, Erribera / Ribera, Navarra, Spain

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1. Hotel Aire de Bardenas – Balcón de Pilatos Viewpoint loop from Murchante

52.2km

04:11

460m

Intermediate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. View of the Bardenas Reales Natural Park – Hotel Aire de Bardenas loop from Tudela de Navarra

61.1km

05:19

640m

Expert mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Hotel Aire de Bardenas – Balcón de Pilatos Viewpoint loop from Tudela de Navarra

50.4km

04:14

430m

Intermediate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Chris. E.

October 15, 2022

At the end you can really let it rip again

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MiguelÁ González

August 12, 2025

The Balcón de Pilatos is a plateau in the Bardenas that allows you to see it in its entirety from above. From here, you can see the Shooting Range; the Valfondo ravine; in the background to the right, "Las Cortinas"; to the left, "El Yugo," "La Estroza," etc. It has many "veres": in spring, it will be a beautiful green; in summer, a desert-like yellow-ochre, also beautiful to me; if it has rained beforehand, it will be a deep brown (don't even think about entering: you'll be trapped for several days, as many unfamiliar people are).
Its characteristics are due to the deforestation carried out since ancient times to obtain wood to meet the needs of the new society following the unification of the Catholic Monarchs and the subsequent Imperial needs. At the beginning of the last century, the resin from the remaining pine trees was also used to make "pez" (one of the pitch ovens has been rehabilitated). Now we find ourselves with a territory that is declared a Natural Park in an attempt to "conserve" the natural disasters produced by the "wild deforestation" carried out: Bardenas Reales de Navarra is the fruit of human action that has turned an "immense Mediterranean forest" into a "semi-desert place with no possibility of recovery: It would not be bad if someone with greater environmental sensitivity thought about, and launched, a project to demonstrate the capacity for human environmental destruction instead of using European and military (NATO and Spanish) money to "conserve!?-exploit" for tourism purposes what a "Town Council" decides without control of a Democratic Parliament, in the best feudal style of those that still remain in our country. That's Bardenas!

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Location: Bardenas Reales De Navarra, Erribera / Ribera, Navarra, Spain

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Scenic Descent in the Bardenas Reales

1. Hotel Aire de Bardenas – Balcón de Pilatos Viewpoint loop from Murchante

2. View of the Bardenas Reales Natural Park – Hotel Aire de Bardenas loop from Tudela de Navarra

3. Hotel Aire de Bardenas – Balcón de Pilatos Viewpoint loop from Tudela de Navarra

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