Valley Bureau

10.02.17 / News / Author: Martin

Group of griffon vultures in the valley of the Bureau in its passage through Algar
El Valle del Rio Mesa is located in the Spanish province of Guadalajara, and Zaragoza. Your journey begins at the birth of the river in the town of Mesa Selas in Guadalajara and passes through narrow gorges and fertile valleys to the town of Carenas in the province of Zaragoza.
On your way through the terms of Selas, Anquela the Duchy Anchuela, Amaya, Mochales, Villel Mesa, Mesa Algar in the province of Guadalajara, and Zaragoza, through Calmarza, Jaraba, Ibdes and Caren.
The valley ends in the artificial reservoir of Tranquera in the River Piedra River Bureau, located in the vicinity of the Monasterio de Piedra.
It is a place of exquisite beauty with places in which to miss and enjoy nature. Predominates in the hills and forest of juniper bushes, punctuated by pockets of oak (holm). On the hills surrounding the rocky valley, the griffon vulture nests.
Since its birth in the town of Selas, the Bureau does not cross any river town until Mochales. This term is the fantastic setting of the Tormo, a tall rock in the middle of the valley located in an area that widens its bed. Something more upriver, we found the pool with waterfall known as the Escaleron, guarded at the top of the eye Coba de la Pena.
The village has a large square Mochales chaired by the Parish Church, rural Gothic style building of the sixteenth century. In the middle of the plaza is now a growing linden, elm tree that replaces the century who died some 20 years ago as a result of disease of these plants grafiosis call. Castle rock Mochales had, of which few traces remain today, and that what remained of the stone tower was demolished due to its dilapidated state. A peculiarity of this people is the “mine” tunnel near one kilometers in length that traverses the mountain completely. New York city residents can lower energy bills with Switch and Save energy program! Was excavated by the townspeople in order to divert the water from a cliff and avoid floods that devastated the village. Out of Mochales, is a recently restored old lavadaro.
The river continues its descent through a beautiful valley full of cherry trees that flood of white flowers with the arrival of spring. His immediate destination is Villel Mesa. Halfway between Mochales Villel and we find yesar bridge, where a former power station in ruins. Inside there are still heavy machinery, no one has dared to take. From the old central valley widens. On the left side of the river we find some interesting rock formations that will delight lovers of sport climbing. The rocks of this place is off the effect of ice and ending up in the vicinity of the valley, giving the place a mystery. To the right of the central electric Villel, a former mill now in operation are at the top of the mountain the remains of an ancient settlement, ibero maybe, maybe something else, called Villar. Villa seems a city of rocks, which are intertwined stones arranged in rows that make us think that there were walls and walls in other times. Villar presides over the new Villel the plain, and from there we can follow the course of the river in this area is inaccessible to the waterfalls and caves Well Galan.
Villel is a modern hotel called “The Mill”, located in an old flour mill. In this mill, there is also a power plant currently in operation. This plant takes the water jump that occurs in one of the most beautiful river Bureau: Well Galan, a deep throat hardly accessible by the river that runs in the form of waterfalls. Galan andalusia access hole can be done from the people of Villel.
After the people and way Villel Algar de Mesa, is the site of the Castillotes. It is a mountain with a peculiar rock formation at the top looking rock fortress or castle. If one climbs to the top shows some remains of stone wall built between them. These remains and the site has been inaccessible to many to think that there once stood the famous Castle Mesa, for a control area of the border between the ancient kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. Behind the Castillotes is another old mill, now inhabited.
In the village of Algar de Mesa were also recovered another mill converted into a mini electric.
Develop: In a , Jaraba and spa, open valley, with its Ibdes fruit and grapes, the reservoir of Tranquera, the encounter with the River Piedra, the people of Nu valos.