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A spring surrounded by olive trees, which in past centuries supplied the Convent of the Angels and later the town. A natural setting steeped in history. Fresh, drinkable water.

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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.

The Fuente del Rey resting place is a widening of the Senda de la Galiana between the municipalities of Corpa and Nuevo Baztán, equipped with a fountain, a water trough and space for shepherds to stop for refreshment with their flocks. In the Middle Ages, the spring was highly valued for its medicinal properties, “whose salutary waters were drunk at the tables of kings and were even sent to Flanders”. In the town of Corpa, it was known as the “fountain of the seven loaves” because a shepherd asked for bread in a nearby house and was surprised to receive seven loaves, which he was able to share with the rest of the shepherds and lads who accompanied him.

The ethnographic complex of the Fuente Grande de Corpa is an important element of the local heritage. It was built in 1897 by local stonemasons Francisco and Vicente, according to an inscription attached to the wall of the watering hole. The water reaches the stone basins from two different springs in an old cattle rest area at the Cordel de la Senda de la Galiana, although there had been a powerful spring for a long time before. The largest pond was a public washhouse and one of the jets has its own name, it is the Collantes spout and was an old war cannon.

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.

The Cueva del Pastor shelter is a curious geological formation, there are not many such natural shelters in the area, it is located at the passage of several cattle drives and it would surely be a small cavity under the limestone slab and with the passage of centuries and the constant use by the shepherds, enabling space and comfort inside, it has become a good shelter for shepherds, farmers and hikers.

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.