The best walks and hikes around Estremera

The landscapes from Ambite to Mondejar are worth seeing.

The Pinar del Parque Forestal de Carabaña is a large forest of Aleppo pine on the slopes of the Huevo Rodado ravine, an essential forest lung in the Tajuña river basin and a pleasant space for walking and recreation for the inhabitants of Carabaña.

The liveliest places in Carabaña are the Plaza de Joaquín Orea, on one side of the Asunción church, and the Plaza de España, where the Town Hall is located, a beautiful neoclassical stone fountain with a circular basin, built in 1798 during the reign of Charles IV, and the Ara Romana de Carabaña, a museum dedicated to local history from Roman times, with an altar from the 3rd century BC dedicated to the god Mithras. The streets slope down towards the Fonginena ravine and the Tajuña plain, seeking the passage of the river over a bridge that they call Roman because it already existed in those times, but the current construction is from the 16th century. Towards the moor, neighbourhoods of modern houses have developed, on hillsides with disturbing names such as Valdequitapán, Mata Asnos and Calvario, where the hermitage of Santa Bárbara is located, one of the town's viewpoints and a passage for the Peña Bermeja hiking route.

The cattle trails have been the highways of transhumance. For more than five centuries they have been social networks for the exchange of news, customs and thoughts that made livestock movements and the wool trade, with all its derivatives, a first-class economic resource. The Cañada Real Soriana Oriental is in the network of Natural Paths and is one of the nine royal cattle trails established by the Council of Mesta, the longest cattle trail in the main network, in total it exceeds 800 kilometres between the mountains of the Tierras Altas region of Soria and the city of Seville.

The white and blue signs of the Camino de Uclés are paired with the yellow arrows of the Camino de Santiago de Uclés, one of the variants of the Jacobean routes that leaves for Santiago de Compostela from the Monastery of Uclés, one of the heads (Caput Ordinis) of the Order of Santiago from the 13th century.

Part of the old Tajuña Train station has been converted into a bar, but nothing remains of the loading docks or the rest of the facilities, except for the water tank, which stands alone on a nearby esplanade and has maintained its masonry construction and sheet metal roof quite well.

In the 16th century it was an important flour mill and fulling mill in the municipality of Orusco. A century later it was transformed into a paper factory to meet the needs of modern society at the time. Now it is a carpet factory but the original weir, the waterfall, the grove and the traditional irrigation channels used in the Tajuña plain for centuries have been preserved.

It is one of the original bridges on the Arganda Train railway line over the Tajuña River. It has three semicircular arches with the central eye of greater size and a segmental arch, built in ashlar and a stone voussoir on the edge of the arches. Further on, the greenway passes over two bridges built in the same architectural style.