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- OxígenoMarch 7, 2025
The Cornón is the highest peak in the Somiedo Natural Park, a beautiful cluster of valleys and mountains full of popular culture, traditions, landscapes and beautiful peaks between Asturias and León, in the wildest and most legendary heart of the Cantabrian Mountains, the cradle of the ancestral transhumant
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- OxígenoFebruary 20, 2025
The paintings in the natural shelters of Fresnedo were discovered in 1968 and contain an interesting sample of schematic cave art from the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. In total, more than 50 figures and numerous indefinable marks have been catalogued. Access to some shelters
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- OxígenoFebruary 13, 2025
The Canfranc Valley is an abysmal gap dug by the frozen tongues of the old Pyrenean glaciers and later shaped by the torrents of the Aragon River, creating a scenario of colossal geography. The peaks emerge from the villages of the valley a thousand positive metres, and almost vertical, towards the skies
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- OxígenoJanuary 22, 2025
“For centuries crouched / protected by the northern winds / guarded by the people passing by / protected by the vineyards”, with these affectionate and endearing verses the poet presents the Galician Ribeira Sacra on the banks of the Sil River, where the land emerges from the merciless water in search
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- OxígenoJanuary 16, 2025
The Tozal de Guara (2,077 m) is the highest point of the Sierra y Cañones de Guara Natural Park, in the Huesca Pre-Pyrenees, a penthouse at two thousand metres above sea level with fantastic views of the central and western Pyrenees. The north face is an impressive natural break, the wall falls vertically
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- OxígenoDecember 16, 2024
The eastern massifs of the Sierra de Gredos mark a sharp separation between the basins of the Tiétar and Alberche rivers. They are frontier peaks in an imposing wall of granite cliffs dominated by the environmental whims of nature long ago, since the old trades disappeared and the inhabitants of the
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- OxígenoDecember 9, 2024
The Pinajarro is a worthy summit at the western end of the Sierra de Béjar, sometimes considered the last link in the Sierra de Gredos before succumbing to the corridor of the valley of the river Alagón. In any case, it is a formidable peak, a superb framework of granite cliffs and wild scree over the
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- OxígenoNovember 23, 2024
In the Ayllón mountain range, the first reliefs that exceed two thousand metres in altitude appear in the eastern sector of the Central System. It is the birth of a great mountain range with primitive slate mountains, quartzite and wild shoots of brittle gneisses and solitary rocky ridges above the southernmost
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- OxígenoNovember 11, 2024
In the valleys of the central Cantabrian Mountains there are few options for finding cycling routes without excessive slopes or infernal ramps, they are dizzying mountains, surely due to their geological youth or simply due to the whim of nature, the fact is that the Cantabrian wall is as fascinating
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December 14, 2024
The north face of the mountains in winter always has a haunting appeal because snow and ice can present unpredictable challenges. They are aspects of uncertainty and adventure. Some "north faces" have their own names and symbolize the grandeur of their ranges. In the Guadarrama Mountains, there are three
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