There are few landscapes in Spain that are as beautiful as the Lobos river canyon. Located in the heart of Castilla y León, the Natural Park of the Lobos river canyon constitutes a unique structured space on a deep barrel of rocker promontories.
Inside, in addition to extensive forests of Sabina and Pino Laricio, a wide variety of animal species meet, from a hundred couples of leonian vultures to real Águilas, roeans, otters and mountains.
The Lobos river canyon, declared a natural park in 1985, was one of the first protected areas in Castilla y León. The protection covers the more than 20 kilometers of the canyon and its entire area of influence. For the spectacularity of its relief to be considered one of the most beautiful landscapes in Spain. Inside and its surroundings, a valuable set of artistic remains, peoples and villas with a strong traditional flavor is preserved: St. Bartolomé, Ucero, San Leonardo and the Burgo de Osma.
Walk the Lobos river cannon
From the Park Interpretation Center to the circulation limit, a few kilometers can be traveled by a dirt track. In this place you take a path that is directed towards the hermitage of San Bartolomé, one of the most important enclaves of the Order of the Knights Templar and that can be visited.
The path later runs between years exemplary of Sabina Albar. The Sorian forests of this evergreen and squamous tree are among the best preserved on the planet. You have to wade the river on a couple of occasions and save a small topographic difficulty, using a rustic wooden ladder. After continuing for several kilometers through the bottom of the canyon and finding a new pine area, you reach the so -called seven -eyed bridge. From this place the canyon becomes narrower and steep and soon enters into the province of Burgos.
The most enthusiastic visitors can arrive without much effort to Hontoria del Pinar, where a Roman bridge marks the end of the tour. To return the best is to retrace the walked. Another solution is to have a support vehicle and return by road.
From here, the greatness of this karst origin can already be seen in its extension (due to the action of water). Its limestone walls, about 200 meters high, have been modeled by erosive phenomena, giving rise to beautiful and capricious relief forms.
Three villages near the Lobos river canyon
We encourage you to visit three locations located in the surroundings of the Lobos River Canyon. In them you can make a stop to replenish strength, while enjoying their extensive heritage and history:
- Ucero: It is a municipality known for being the entrance door to the Lobos river canyon, so it may be interesting to visit it before this natural heritage. 72 kilometers away, you can get to Ucero from this Castellanoleonese capital for the N-122 to the Burgo de Osma and from there tour on the right hand to take the SO-920 regional road. His castle to which tradition attributes Templar origin deserves a visit. From where we will have an excellent viewpoint to contemplate the same town of Ucero as well as part of the Lobos River Canyon Natural Park.
- Hontoria del Pinar: It is a town in the southeast Burgos that became famous in 1884 for installing the first resine factory in Spain. Framed in the Sierra de la Demanda, it also has ancient flour mills and the Navas del Pinar caolin laundries. In addition, their visitors enjoy visiting the Roman Bridge or Campanario on the Lobos River, two of whose three arches rely on a rock from a mountain detachment, and the parish church, of a Romanesque plant and in which the main altarpiece stands out of the seventeenth century. The hermitage of San Juan, the Roll and the Fuentona are also important. The black and white caves, of a cars, are highly appreciated by the speleologists.
- San Leonardo de Yagüe: This town is at the crossroads between the roads that connect Burgos and Soria. At its entrance the arc awaits you, the only vestige of the existence of some walls that protected the people. Equally important are the remains of the Romanesque church, of the XI and XII centuries, which can be visited in Arganza. Walk along the street of La Fuente if you want to appreciate two houses of the 18th and 19th century with totally Basque architecture. The church dedicated to San Leonardo Abad is another important point. It was rebuilt in the seventeenth century with Herreriano style, but with a brushstroke of Gothic. You just have to enter to appreciate the wood torso of ECCE Homo attributed to Gregorio Fernández, one of the imaging with the greatest talent.
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