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Pine of the Chain

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    1. Tres Huecos de Cercedilla — Sierra de Guadarrama

    25.6km

    02:49

    620m

    Expert mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. Some portions of the route may require you to push your bike.

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    October 12, 2023

    Ricardo Urgoitiz, director of the newspaper 'El Sol', had the habit of walking through the pine forest towards the Navalmedio stream and the Cortes meadow. Also rest in the shade of a leafy pine tree located on the side of the road. It was precisely there that they brought him the bad news of his father's death. Shocked, Urgoitiz wanted to pay tribute to the memory of his father, coming up with the idea of cinching the base of the plant giant where he received that blow with a chain with the inscription: "To his dear memory, 1840-1924." Before, he had to buy the tree from a logger who had it marked to be turned into planks.

    Nearly two hundred years old and chained to such a history, the Pino de la Cadena is an institution in the Sierra del Guadarrama. So much so that the forestry agents of the Community of Madrid every so often reach down to its feet to add a link to the chain and thereby prevent the iron from ending up strangling the tree.

    Source: elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/07/17/madrid/1279357983.html

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      Location: Cercedilla, Guadarrama, Madrid, Spain

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