オハカストロの天然記念物・トップ9

Romanesque church dating back to the 12th century on the outskirts of Valgañón, a town in the Sierra de la Demanda near Ezcaray. A great stop to get water on the way up to the top of Pradilla.

La Arboleda del Sur, is a group of more than 100 horse chestnut trees, which flank the beginning of the road that connects Ezcaray with Zorraquin. This group of trees, are part of those cataloged as Singular Trees of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, for their landscape value and cultural interest.

This mostajo or rowan is located a few meters from a path that runs through the Sierra de la Demanda. Rowans are small trees that rarely reach fifteen meters in height. However, this is a rowan tree to be highlighted, probably one of the largest known specimens from the Peninsula and surely one of the longest-lived.

In the Sierra de la Demanda, the summit of El Hombre (also known as Siete Mosquejos) is 1,549 m. altitude and is crowned by a fire watch tower. It is reached from the Erizola pass.

About 100 meters from the pile of stones is the "official" vertex of Mount "El Hombre".

Surveillance turret and pile of stones as a watchtower of the summit.

Top The Man. There is a fire watchtower. Very frequented ascent also with mountain bike.

This church, reddish in color due to the limestone, dates from the 13th century and is Romanesque in style. It is one of the Rioja jewels belonging to this period. Water flows from the three springs from one of the most important aquifers in La Rioja. Water permeates through the sandstone, storing water throughout the year.