Attractions and Places To See around Belinchón - Top 20

This section is popular with cyclists due to the allure of the tunnels and the gorge carved by the old railway line through the gypsum and esparto grass hillsides and ravines. The railway tunnels and cuttings are impressive constructions, both for their design and their railway efficiency. They facilitate the passage of trains across steep terrain and maintain a gentle, accessible gradient in challenging areas, with raised sections of the ground to reduce noise and visual impact in environmentally sensitive locations.

Estremera Kilometer 42.5 The route continues along the route of the 40 Day Train and rural roads to the streets of Estremera, passes through El Parque and leaves the town through the Plaza de San Isidro, where there are several stately homes. On Church Street is the Casa de las Columnas, an old century palace with a Renaissance façade from the 16th century and other mansions from the 18th and 19th centuries. In the Plaza Mayor is the Remedios church, which houses the oldest baroque organ in the Community of Madrid, and the Town Hall, with a porticoed façade. The route leaves Estremera along the Tajo Natural Trail, crosses the Illana road and detours towards Brea de Tajo through the Vega de Brea valley.

The Fuentidueña de Tajo bridge is an engineering work from the mid-19th century that restored the passage through this river on the way to Cuenca. It is the oldest large metal bridge in Madrid. This work allowed communications to be modernized at the time of its execution.

This viaduct, near Villamanrique de Tajo, seems to have been built for a train track. Today it is enjoyed by cyclists who circulate between Vilamanrique and Fuentidueña.

The Uclés path is marked by the particularity of its signage full of messages to pilgrims and with rest areas with the cross of the order of Santiago. This point has two cement blocks as benches and motivational messages.

The livestock route crosses the Tagus Natural Trail, crosses the town to the shore of the Tagus and passes the river over a historic iron bridge from the 19th century. The Tagus Bridge is a magnificent work of civil engineering inaugurated in 1867. The designer of the project was the architect José de Echevarría, who sought collaborators in France within the Eiffel team and chose iron to build a solid bridge in a fundamental passage of the Tagus plain. In the transit of the eastern Soriana Royal Canyon and the Camino Real de Valencia, an old Post Road and route of peasants and merchants since the Early Middle Ages. The first mechanical means to cross the Tagus riverbed was a rope boat, replaced by a rope bridge that could withstand unforeseen floods, but it was destroyed by General Prim's troops in the mid-19th century. In the vicinity of the bridge is the recreational area of La Tejera, with riverside trees and river beaches.

Monument to the cross of the Order of Santiago

Nice viaduct, often the perspective prevents us from appreciating it