Neila is a town with an intense cattle tradition. In the Middle Ages it was represented in the Honrado Concejo de la Mesta as the head of Cañada Real. It has stately houses with coats of arms of noble families that lived centuries of splendor during the golden age of pastoral transhumance. The town is in a beautiful valley surrounded by mountains, forests and mountain streams in a dream location in the mountains of the Iberian System. The starting point of the mountain route is the small car park of the Casa del Parque Natural de las Lagunas Glaciares de Neila, set up in the Romanesque church of San Miguel. The information center is a good place to learn about the history, popular traditions, rural economy, ethnographic heritage and natural values before entering the kingdom of pine forests, mountain pastures and glacial cirques of the high Iberian mountains. . The route coincides with the layout of Sendero del Collado PR-BU 204, well signposted with directional milestones and white and yellow markings painted on the tree trunks and rocks along the path.