Itinerary
The itinerary, which runs along 18 km (every thousand metres) by means of identification. It begins at the Félix lookout, located at the foot of the road of the Tranco A-319, continuing for it towards Arroyo Frio until the intersection with the track leading to the campsiteLlanos de Aranceand that goes along, first, the right bank of the Guadalquivir River and then the tail of the Tranco reservoir. The first half of the route, along the asphalt road, passes through an interesting forest of coniferous: black pines and carrasco, complaints, oaks..., mixed with alffas, strawberries and willows of the river of Guadalquivir, and includes the required visit to the Park of Fauna SilvestreAlmond Necklace. Large mammals, such as deer, mountain goats, muflons and wos, live in semi-freedom this part of the Natural Park

From kilometer 8, past the bridge of the Golondrinas over the Guadalquivir, we travel through a forest track that crosses streams under the refreshing shade of chopos, strawberries and willows, with intrusions of Mediterranean forest, where it will be nothing difficult to meet with deer, boars, squirrels, etc.

More of the Ruta

Its main attractions are the large forests of pine laricio, the head of the valley of the river Madera and some small villages.

Below we tell you how to make the route and suggest some possibilities:

Km 2.8.To the right part of the road to the small and hidden village of Moralejos, which is reached in a few minutes. We advise you to visit her, because she has a very harmonious environment and is well preserved.

Km 6.The Royos. From this tiny village you can see beautiful views of the header of the Trujala valley. Km 8.3. Important cross with many indications. We turn right, towards Rio Madera, on the JF-7016 road. To the left we would go to Las Azebeas and Siles. Here is a significant change in the plant environment, as we have entered the area of the pine pine larice.

Km 8.7.On the left, a forest track opens that gives access to Navalespino, the Collado de Góntar and the abandoned village of Prado de Juan Ruiz, among other areas of high quality landscape.

Km 9.5.Fountain and forest house of Navalhora. The pinar acquires all its splendor. Three hundred meters further, take the long forest track from Navalhora to El Robledo to the right, for which we recommend walking.

Km 10.1.At this crossing, our route follows to the left, towards Rio Madera, on the JF-7038 road. From here we go down and we'll see large copies of complaints and some twins. Km 12.3. Start a forest track to the left, to the counter. It gives access, without taking any detour, to the far-off villages of La Tobilla and Prado Espinosillo.

Km 13.5.Los Negros' controlled camp area. It has a fountain and tables, and is accessible for people with reduced mobility. An excellent place to rest under large larity pines. From here, during the 4.3 km that separate us from the village of Arroyo Canales, we recommend to walk quietly next to gardens and small cortijos, always close to the river Madera and in the middle of one of the best pine lario forests in Spain.

Km 17.8.The village of Arroyo Canales, sometimes given the name of the village of Rio Madera, is a strategic point throughout the area. At this very marked crossing, we turn right on the JF-7039 road. From here on the route rises and the forest is less lush, but you gain splendid views. We will find several forest tracks signposted to El Jaral, La Huelga de la Vigas and the Collado de Los Asperones. All of them are interned in magnificent places.

Km 22.4.Very marked cross where we turn right, on the JF-7016 road. Two hundred meters later, we ignored the left crossing towards the Hornos de Segura and followed the front. From here on the plain route and the environment becomes more lush.

Km 23.7.We arrived at the location of El Campillo, where there is an old forest house. To the left, the asphalted forest track goes up to El Yelmo. Both on the road and at the summit, the views are extraordinary.

Km 32.5.We found again the crossing through which we went down to Rio Madera. From here on, we return to Segura de la Sierra on the same route we brought.

PRACTICAL PARTICULARS

The route is 42 km, and it starts and ends in Segura de la Sierra. The beginning from which we count the kilometers is at the exit of Segura de la Sierra on the road JV-7032, exactly at the point where the road to the castle comes right.

The morphology of the land also tells us of the thousands of years in which water has been the artisan hand that has built the landscape. As we go down this road, the oak and pine trees make way for lush riverside forests.

Among the options we propose to you:

Km 0.Santiago de la Sword. Located at 1350 m of altitude, its main economic activity is extensive livestock. It has the parish church of Santiago Apostle (16th century), built on an earlier hermitage dedicated to the same saint and which has a beautiful major altarpiece of Baroque style. In the square of the City Hall we find an old 16th century inn with a vistose wooden balconade.

Km 10.Mirador del Salto de la Nova or del Zumeta; 10 km from Santiago we find on the right hand side this mirador from which we see the limit of the Park and the province of Jaén. Watch out for hats, they can fly a long way.

Km 12.Tobos village. Compulsory stop to buy good bread and delicious cakes. Next to the road there is a simple laundry room that circulates the Tobos stream, with fresh and clean waters.

Km 13.Vites village. To get to the village of Vites you have to turn left and drive 2 km. In this village are raised magnificent white grapes, large and sweet, from which a powerful spirit is distilled. Ask the local neighbors.

Prado Moro.At the end of the village of Vites a left road ascends to Prado Moro. Here a centenary oak resists at the time that gives us a vision of the vegetation that in the past existed in the area.

Km 16.Embalse de la Vieja. A prominent peak called the Morrison announces the beginning of the Old Age reservoir. After the village of Morrión, a lane - not marked - goes down on the left to the reservoir.

Km 18.The Vadico. Two km from the reservoir there are houses on the right side of the road with a wall in front. Right across the street we found a way up to the Vadico. It's a nice walk, by a real vergel, which deserves to be made on foot. On the way there are sources to be able to refresh and collect water.

Km 18.5.Entrance to the villages of La Muela, Marchena and Marchenica. The Muela is 5.4 km from this point. In its vicinity is Hoya Somera, an important archaeological site of the bronze age. Later on there are Marchena and Marchenica. In its surroundings, there were Roman remains and an Arab necropolis.

Km 22.Miller's together. At this point the Zumeta River has come with us all the way and the Segura. A natural stone tunnel announces the arrival at this meeting place.

Miller village.From Las Juntas there is another road that reaches this historic village with more than 20 water births. It is a starting point for several routes that will make us known beautiful areas of the Sierra de Segura. When you pass the stone tunnel you have to follow the indication "Central and Miller."

PRACTICAL PARTICULARS

Distance:From Santiago to the Miller Boards there are 22 km away, by a mountain road. The route is extended if we enter the villages and recommended points.

Home:Santiago de la Sword village to which you can reach the A-317. The route is developed by the JF-7038 road

The route is 45 km. It begins in the farm of the Borosa and ends in the Hornos de Segura. It is recommended at least one full day. There are many tourist accommodation on the route.

Km 0 - Piscifactory and River Borosa River Interpreting Center. In this Centre we will know the importance of water and river ecosystems in the Natural Park, in which emblematic species such as the common trout and the otter stand out.

Km 1,7 - Vinagre Tower. This area is one of the most crowded in the Park and is located in a geographically privileged area for its centrality. Here it is essential to know the Park Visitors Center, which has been recently modernized and has various interactive resources. It has a Natural Park Store, toilets, cafe, rest room and children's play area on the outside. Very close to this center is the Botanical Garden, a pleasant place with a wide and careful selection of natural park plants, from small herbaceas to large trees. It is a perfect place to observe and learn to distinguish them or simply to take a pleasant walk between lush vegetation.

Km 6.5 - Coto Ríos. This village, on the banks of the Guadalquivir, was built in the 1960s of last century to house families living in scattered villages and cortijos and whose houses were expropriated to create the National Cazorla-Segura Hunting Coto (now the Andaluza de Caza Reserve). It has medical assistance, shops and other services, in addition to several campsites.

Km 13.3 - Wild Fauna Park Collado del Almond. In their enclosure they pasture in semi-freedom deer, mountain goats, wos and muflons. You can see them and photograph them by walking a pleasant itinerary with fountains, banks and several viewpoints with splendid views of the Tranco reservoir and the ruins of the castle of Bujaraiza.

Km 14 - FRF look. It is one of the milestones of the Route of the same name, dedicated to the mythical naturalist Felix Rodríguez de la Fuente, who from this point of view filmed the famous scenes of the berrea of the deer in the 1970s. In front of it is Mount Bujaraiza, which sometimes, when the reservoir is very full, becomes an island, and is crowned by the ruins of an Arab turret.

Km 17.6 - Old-garden controlled area. This place is very nice to eat and rest, except on the dates you are occupied by some camp.

Km 19.2 - House of Crafts Los Casares. It is an old Forest House converted into a shop of crafts and products from the Park.

Km 26 - Old Control Recreative Area. It is a large and recently built area with magnificent views over the northern part of the Tranco reservoir. It has banks, tables to eat and fountain.

Km 28.4 Tranco Dam - This impressive dam, whose height on the Guadalquivir channel is 82 meters, is one of the largest in Spain. In its surroundings there are several restaurants, terraces and water sports facilities, as well as the village that was raised for the workers who built the dam.

Km 31.5 - The Parral Recreative Area. It is in the middle of the carrasco pine pinar and has a look-out with good views over the waters of the Tranco reservoir.

Km 35.7 - Cñada Morales. When it reaches this village the landscape is opened and no longer exclusively forest, to give way to large humanized areas with olive groves, orchards and scattered cortijos.

Km 44.6 - Safe Furnaces. This small town, built on the top of a peñasco, is in the center of the Natural Park. Its monuments, views and irregular alleys of the Arab past, served him the declaration of Artistic Historical Set.

The look at La Morra de Los Canalizos (km 31) has tables to eat. A little further we found the crosses to Hornos el Viejo and La Plantera. It is highly advisable to turn around this last village, with its scattered population and large oaks, and even down to the Tranco reservoir, to take a relaxing walk along its margin.

In the impressive Mirabuenos lookout (km 35) the views change quite a lot: from the humanized landscape of the previous lookout, with extensive olive areas and numerous cortijos and villages, we go to the vast panoramic high mountain, where the large forests dominate.

The view of Las Huelguecillas (km 36), which has tables to eat, is on an extensive promontory, and thanks to its situation as a small "peninsula" aerial we enjoy a very wide panoramic in all directions.

The Pradillos lookout (km) is the last and has a special charm for being at 1,340 m of altitude. This section of the A-317 ends when it stops climbing. You'll find a crossing and you'll have two options. If you keep going, you'll go to Pontoons and the birth of the Segura. You will find a livestock landscape, with very clear views. If you choose to turn left, you will enter a more forest landscape. You can complete your route in a circular way by returning to the Hornos de Segura on the roads of La Suma and la Garganta (A-317a).

Among the options we propose to you:

Km 0. Caraway. The best way to enjoy Cazorla is to get lost in the streets of the old town and to discover some of its wonders, but on this occasion we propose some forced visits: the Plaza de Santa María, the Castle of the Yedra and some churches such as that of the Carmen or San Francisco of Renaissance style.

Km 1.5. The Iruela.Here we propose to stop you again, leave the car by the road and walk up one of the steep streets that lead to the castle that was owned by the Templars. From above you will have a beautiful view of the Guadalquivir depression. Next to the castle you can also visit the Church of Santo Domingo - and know the details of its foundation and history. Back in the car you will enjoy slimmed streets full of flowers that cheer the view.

Km 12. Air Pass lookout.We go up the road that leads us to the Natural Park and to say goodbye to the countryside, nothing better than to stop at this Mirador and enjoy its views. From here we change villages, castles and olive trees to valleys, rivers and mountains.

Km 13. Viewer of the Port of the Doves (1200 m).The landscape changes dramatically. You will find a great panoramic view of the Alto Valle del Guadalquivir, surrounded by beautiful mountains, including the Poyos de la Mesa on the right, unmistakable by its steep cliffs. It is also a good point to observe rapacious birds such as the royal eagle or the leonate vulture.

Km 16. Valley splash.In fact, the Valley Empalme is not a stop but a crossroads. We can turn left and descend to Cold Arroyo, but at this point we will follow the right-hand option following the JF-7092 road that leads us to the Utrero Clock.

Km 19.5. Closed from the Utrel. 3.5 Km from the Empalme del Valle you can reach a bridge over the Guadalquivir River. At this point we have to leave the car. Here begins a circular route of approximately 45 minutes that we will walk. It is a charming walk next to a Guadalquivir that is going to fit in and that later receives the surprise from the air of the stream of Linarejos. Impossible.

Km 23. Valley splash.Back to the road crossing we now continue on the right, following the A-319 road towards Cold Arroyo.

Km 30. Cold Arroyo.At this point in the road we can visit the Ethnographic Museum of Arts and Customs of the Natural Park. Cold Arroyo is also a good place to take something or make some unexpected purchase.

Km 33. Tejina Recreative Area.A stop on the way to rest, relax and eat outdoors if that's your choice.

Km 40. Vinagre Tower.This is certainly a strategic place within the Park because of it some of the routes that will take you to places as famous as the Cerrada de Elias or the Laguna de Valdeazores. At this point there are also a number of facilities that allow you to know the Park. You will find information about this extraordinary enclave in the area "Passeos por el Valle."

You can take advantage of this stretch of road to close a car circuit with the Miradores Route and the Hornos Grain road. If you want to walk, we recommend the public road that goes east in the direction of the village of Cabeza Gorda passing through the old forest house of the Fuente del Chorro, which passes through dense pine forests.

In the first section we go through three points of interest: the corrijada of Mata Bejid, set of regional-style constructions, the Centre of Visitors of the Natural Park and the bosquet with meringeros area of the Sanctuary of the Fuensanta. In addition in this first part of the route we will find conveniently marked the beginning of the most interesting trails of the massif: Torres Ports and Ascension to the Magic Pico. To the Ctra. A-324 will circulate for 17 km to Huelma. We advise to stop at the Mata Bejid Visitors Center, which in addition to an interesting presentation on the environmental and cultural values of the Natural Park and an audiovisual, has a small shop and meringero area adapted for people with reduced mobility. The Visitors' Centre is open from Thursday to Sunday (check time per season).

You will continue to Huelma, where you can visit two Renaissance monuments that perfectly explain the grandiosity of this population, of these mountains in the 16th century: the Church of the Immaculate Conception, the work of Andrés de Vandelvira, and the castle that watches the people from above.

The second section of the route runs on horseback in the provinces of Granada and Jaén. From Huelma we'll take the Ctra. JA-4204 for four kms. We'll continue for 4 km. More for the Ctra. GR-3100. These are the landscapes of the mountain cereal, increasingly reduced in extension due to its low profitability, but that in times not so far away were the sustenance of the families of the area. The feeling that is perceived in the contemplation of these moors is of remoteness, of isolation, a rural world that is extinguishing.

Attention because you have to turn right on the Ctra. JA-3205, by which you will go down a steep slope towards Arbuniel. To this point you take 35 kms. since you left Cambil. Arbuniel is known for its water spring that feeds the irrigations of the area, through a system of waterfalls that remains active, and that passes through this small population belonging to the municipality of Cambil. The spring is surrounded by a little park, a magnificent place to rest.

From Arbuniel, and in only 8 km. from a road that passes through olive landscapes, we will reach Cambil by the Ctra. JA-3204. Cambil has sufficient restoration services. Do not stop walking through its urban town and be surprised with some Baroque facades, such as the Hospital (18th century).

We suggest the following possibilities:

Km 2.Peña del Olivar Recreative Area. It has an unusual Botanical Collection with natural park species and a natural pool. It is also the starting point for various walks.

Km 2.2.Start to the left of the road to the Fountain Recreative Area of the Almoteja. You can go by car, but we recommend to enjoy on foot this walk 1.5 km next to the river vegetation of the Arroyo del Barranco de los Tejos. The recreational area has a fountain where we can see the catacamosque (Pinguicola vallisneriifolia), small carnivora plant endemic to the Park. There begins a signposted path of 1 '5 km.

Km 5.2. The site of La Fresnedilla, with small scattered cortijos, where we can walk two signposted paths.

Km 6.3.Start to the right of the La Canalica forest track. We recommend that you drive through it, as we can walk through several signposted trails and approach the well of the Snow, sturdy and hidden stone construction where the snow was previously stored for use during the summer. Next to him is a source.

Km 7.3.Mirador de La Fresneilla, with beautiful views.

Km 7.8.Free Time Siles residence. It is in a very careful environment from which comes a wide road that allows very pleasant walks. It ends, after almost 6 km, on the forest track that leaves Siles towards the Puntal de la Ajedrea.

Km 10.4.Start to the left of a long forest track that crosses private farms and runs, in its last sections, by the Tu River.

Km 11.Start to the right of the same forest track we saw in the km 6.3, which makes loop with the road. From here is closer the Snow well. From here we enter the Reserve Area of Acebeas- Nava del Espino, an area especially protected by its high ecological value. We can see that at this point the forest becomes greener and greener.

Km 11.6.Area of Azebeas Controlled Squad. Magnificent place under large larity pines where you can rest when you are not occupied by some camp.

Km 12.5.Place of Las Abeas. On the left a delicious walk to an old forest house starts. This place, with its hazelnuts and its large hives in the shadow of the larice pines, is one of the most emblematic of the Natural Park. In less than an hour you can climb an exceptional path from the forest house to the Calar de Navalperal, from where you enjoy great views.

Km 14.1.Cross with the JF-7016 road. Here our route ends, although it is a very strategic place to start many others. You will see abundant signs that indicate different possibilities, such as Segura de la Sierra, Río Madera or Pontones.

Among the options we propose to you:

Km 0.Santiago de la Sword. Located at 1350 m of altitude, its main economic activity is extensive livestock. It has the parish church of Santiago Apostle (16th century), built on an earlier hermitage dedicated to the same saint and which has a beautiful major altarpiece of Baroque style. In the square of the City Hall we find an old 16th century inn with a vistose wooden balconade.

Km 10.Mirador del Salto de la Nova or del Zumeta; 10 km from Santiago we find on the right hand side this mirador from which we see the limit of the Park and the province of Jaén. Watch out for hats, they can fly a long way.

Km 12.Tobos village. Compulsory stop to buy good bread and delicious cakes. Next to the road there is a simple laundry room that circulates the Tobos stream, with fresh and clean waters.

Km 13.Vites village. To get to the village of Vites you have to turn left and drive 2 km. In this village are raised magnificent white grapes, large and sweet, from which a powerful spirit is distilled. Ask the local neighbors.

Prado Moro.At the end of the village of Vites a left road ascends to Prado Moro. Here a centenary oak resists at the time that gives us a vision of the vegetation that in the past existed in the area.

Km 16.Embalse de la Vieja. A prominent peak called the Morrison announces the beginning of the Old Age reservoir. After the village of Morrión, a lane - not marked - goes down on the left to the reservoir.

Km 18.The Vadico. Two km from the reservoir there are houses on the right side of the road with a wall in front. Right across the street we found a way up to the Vadico. It's a nice walk, by a real vergel, which deserves to be made on foot. On the way there are sources to be able to refresh and collect water.

Km 18.5.Entrance to the villages of La Muela, Marchena and Marchenica. The Muela is 5.4 km from this point. In its vicinity is Hoya Somera, an important archaeological site of the bronze age. Later on there are Marchena and Marchenica. In its surroundings, there were Roman remains and an Arab necropolis.

Km 22.Miller's together. At this point the Zumeta River has come with us all the way and the Segura. A natural stone tunnel announces the arrival at this meeting place.

Miller village.From Las Juntas there is another road that reaches this historic village with more than 20 water births. It is a starting point for several routes that will make us known beautiful areas of the Sierra de Segura. When you pass the stone tunnel you have to follow the indication "Central and Miller."