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The beautiful Fuente del Arca (Ark Fountain) is one of the historic springs of the Tajuña Valley. It lies along the Cordel de las Merinas, a notable drove road used during the transhumance era, and for centuries it was one of the main sources of drinking water for the town of Ambite. The basin itself is a small water garden, nestled in a pleasant setting of poplars, fig trees, willows, elms, and plants associated with springs, such as the maidenhair fern, a fern unique to the region.

The cattle trails have been the highways of transhumance. For more than five centuries they have been social networks for the exchange of news, customs and thoughts that made livestock movements and the wool trade, with all its derivatives, a first-class economic resource. The Cañada Real Soriana Oriental is in the network of Natural Paths and is one of the nine royal cattle trails established by the Council of Mesta, the longest cattle trail in the main network, in total it exceeds 800 kilometres between the mountains of the Tierras Altas region of Soria and the city of Seville.

The white and blue signs of the Camino de Uclés are paired with the yellow arrows of the Camino de Santiago de Uclés, one of the variants of the Jacobean routes that leaves for Santiago de Compostela from the Monastery of Uclés, one of the heads (Caput Ordinis) of the Order of Santiago from the 13th century.

The Arca spring is a historic spring in Ambite, located in the Arca ravine next to the Cordel de las Merinas. The structure of the fountain has been restored and with the benches and the shade of the trees it creates a welcoming space.

In the agricultural wastelands of Valdaracete, a striking journey towards the Tagus River begins through a curious landscape of clay hills and whitish marls in a desert and steppe environment, especially in the hard slides of Cerro de la Muela, a desert in Las Vegas, where the gypsum gullies that can become hell for pedaling on rainy days. The sensation of navigating a bicycle through distant and exotic latitudes ends when the road leaves the valley of the Valle stream, passes through the A-3 tunnel and ends in Fuentidueña de Tajo.

Take advantage of this bridge over the Tajuña Greenway to rest in the shade, something rare on this route! These bridges were used to cross the old train track that is now converted into the green cycling route.

Estremera is the easternmost town in the Community of Madrid, bordering Castilla-La Mancha. It has a beautiful church, as well as accommodation, restaurants and shops.

The castle of Almoguera dates from the 15th century, although it was built on the ruins of an old Arab fortification. Little remains of this medieval construction, as the current castle is a reconstruction from the end of the 20th century.