Mancha Real - Summit of Almadén - Torres

The tour begins in Mancha Real and ends in the neighboring town of Torres; therefore a route that makes it easier to leave a car in each village to organize the return after the route. If you are going to complete the tour you will need water, some food to replenish strength and a coat for the high mountain area. In Mancha Real you will only have to ask about the rise to the Almadén peak or the TV repeater - the summit is located a set of telephone and telecommunications antennas. Any neighbor will know you have to go south of the village, next to the Pila Fountain and the municipal pool. There, and on permanent rise by repopulation pineers, the lane rises from the repeater by which you will pedal for 10 km of climb next to the Sierra de la Peña del Eagle. The ascent will take you from the 850 m from Mancha Real to the plains of Bercho and Peña Blanca at 1,400 m. on the Jiennense countryside, where the landscape of mountain plains is appreciated, an area that was described in the Middle Ages, in the Chronicle of the Constable and the Book of the Alphony X Mountain, as... "an important place of major hunting, rich in boars, wolves, deer, bears and a closed vegetation." Two kilometers of plain and we are on the detour for the big climb, the step towards the high mountain: the Almadén summit pedaling by track. It's six and a half miles of ramps and sweat, but the effort is worth it. The summit, if the day is clear, is a privileged viewpoint in Andalusia. To the north is the entire great depression of Guadalquivir, closed by the horizon of Sierra Morena. The east shows you the other peaks of more than 2,000 meters from the Sierra Magina massif. To the south you will see the Sierra Nevada Natural Park horizon in Granada. The drop of the same 6.5 Km. (watch out for curves and speed!) leads us back to the previous crossing. From here a new stretch of 4 Km. by cherry plantations accompanies us to Navaparís, one of the most cuddly sources in the area. 2.5 kilometers more and you are on the local road - asphalt - that will take you in permanent descent (another 2.5 km more) between orchards, cherry fields and small cords to the Torres River, and the town of the same name.