The best running trails around Santa Cruz De Pinares

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.

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.

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.

Dusty path along the dry bed of the Tornadizos stream on the pilgrim from Madrid to Santiago de Compostela, when approaching Tornadizos de Ávila.

The center of Santa Cruz de Pinares has a great natural diversity, where it is flagged by the Cuerda de los Polvisos to the north, with springs, a leafy oak grove, pine groves and natural pools.

Small town that is crossed by the Río de la Gaznata and that is surrounded by mountains that reach almost a thousand meters called Cuerda de los Polvisos.

Beautiful ''single track'' between green crops leaving a picturesque picture worthy of a postcard.

It is a small town in the province of Ávila with cobbled streets and old buildings. If you walk through its alleys, you feel like you are inside an art exhibition.