The best cycling routes around Mediana De Voltoya

On our tour from West to East Europe, started in 2023 in Lisbon and extended this year to Tirana in Albania, I can say that this section was indeed one of my personal highlights on the total of over 4,000 km across Europe. Komoot used the photos I took back then to create a highlight from them. Today I am happy to provide a text for it. Enjoy the "ride" through this fantastic landscape. Thank you Europe!!

The park extends between the bridge over the Chico River, the extension of Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles Street, and the Burgohondo road bridge, bordering Juan Pablo II Avenue. One of the most popular routes is the circular route from the Roman Bridge over the Adaja River, ideal for easy walks and enjoying the park's natural surroundings.

The Church of San Miguel Arcángel in Tornadizos de Ávila is a church of great historical and cultural significance. Built of ashlar and masonry, it is liturgical in nature. The Brotherhood of the Holy True Cross, an institution of great importance in local religious life, was founded in this parish more than four centuries ago.

from the camper parking approx. 10km to the high plateau. with a considerable climb. doable with an e-bike. but once you arrive at the top, you find yourself in a magnificent, quiet and peaceful environment. wonderfully beautiful.

In the southwest area of the city.

Stage 2. Ávila/Madrid 140 km. 2,500 m positive. On the way back to Madrid we followed the route of the Camino de Santiago de Levante to the Alberche River with some variations to maintain cyclability and an acceptable average. The yellow arrows on the Jacobean route point towards Santiago de Compostela and at some intersections it is not easy to see them in the opposite direction. The track is essential to follow these “author” routes. The route leaves Ávila along the plain of the Chico River to Tornadizos de Ávila and continues along the cattle trails from the sources of the Tornadizos River to some spectacular pastoral meadows in the hills of El Cabezuelo. The final stretch of the climb follows a path that has good cyclability with good grinding technique and expertise on mountain trails. The path passes a gate with yellow arrows and goes down to the port of Boquerón, between the Cuerda de los Polvisos and the Malagón mountain range, one of the entrances to the great Herradón de Pinares grave. The descent along the Camino de Santiago is an uncomfortable and complicated trial with the bags due to the pavement and the vegetation and to maintain the pace we go down the road gliding over a deceptive landscape, we pass through El Herradón and continue to San Bartolomé de Pinares. The climb through the cobblestone streets of the town is tough and the exit through the forks of the Camino de Levante ends with an infernal wall, until the slope ends on a hill adorned with a milestone of the Jacobean route that has indications of the distances to different places. in the world, from Ávila and Madrid to Beijing or New Zealand.

This dolmen has an ancient history, being used as a burial place from the end of the Neolithic to the beginning of the Bronze Age, covering the last centuries of the fourth millennium BC. until the first third of the second millennium BC. Its presence evokes mystery and connects us with the ancient cultures that built it.

Tornadizos de Ávila is a small town on the eastern outskirts of Ávila. The town is located on the pilgrimage route from Madrid and Santiago de Compostela, carried out by many every day for centuries.