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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 narrow ravines of Pezuela that fall towards the valley of the Tajuña river are rich in clays and dolomitic limestones from the Miocene, a top quality raw material for cooking in lime kilns and making mortars and construction materials. Pezuela had several Moorish kilns for plaster and lime until the sixties of the last century. There are remains of the installations and cavities of the mines in Cuevas Blancas and other slopes of the plains, although they have little identity and complicated location, they are cultural landscapes because they condense the popular wisdom of an essential trade in the life of the rural world.

La Pica may be the largest and oldest oak tree in the fields and forests of Madrid. It has been declared a Singular Tree by the Community of Madrid since 1992. It is an extraordinary forest monument, named by poets such as Antonio Machado and featured in numerous nature and environmental documentaries. Its estimated age is around three hundred years. It must have been born in the mid-eighteenth century. The trunk has a perimeter of four metres and a height of twenty metres, with a crown projection of five hundred square metres. It is a true jewel of forest nature.

Villar del Olmo is a well-kept and welcoming village, located at the head of the Vega stream, an agricultural valley between the slopes of Mediterranean scrubland where the landscapes of the Las Vegas and Alcarria regions of Madrid meet. It is a transit area between towns, valleys, moors and countryside. The Plaza Mayor is a beautiful Castilian-style space, which centres the dynamics of the village. It has whitewashed facades, stone arcades, a historic fountain, the Town Hall and the parish church, and next to them the Casa del Maestro and the schools. In the lowest part of the village, between the urban complex and the neighbourhoods of modern houses of Las Suertes and La Trinidad, there is the Fuente de San Isidro and a poplar declared a Singular Tree by the Community of Madrid. It is about twenty metres high and is almost one hundred years old.

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.

This source has an important historical significance, since the first inhabitants of the town settled around this spring, located in the heart of the alcarria.

Being under this holm oak is impressive, its branches are spread out in an almost perfect diameter, they provide shelter and shade, the ground is flat and only littered by a few acorns and leaves, it is located in the middle of a carved esplanade with impressive views, and it has been here for more than a thousand years. or so the locals say and the thickness of its trunk and branches.

Cozy town in the region of Las Vegas, has hiking trails and is known as the door of the Alcarria of Madrid. A nice place is the Fuente de San Isidro, with a monumental poplar 20 meters high and almost a century old.