It has just been published. Its text and photos correspond to two declared guadarramistas: the words are from Eduardo Martinez de Pison and the images, the Javier Sanchez. Its title is brief and to the point.: «Guadarrama. National Park". You have 219 pages between written and illustrated, It is a bilingual edition in Spanish and English and is a display of editorial beauty, with large pages, perfect print, hard covers and case with a photo of the cover with the Guadarrameño forest and another on the back cover with its cliffs and snow peaks.
This book closes, for the time being, the collection of large-format volumes that the Lunwerg publishing house has dedicated for years, in collaboration with the Autonomous Organization of National Parks, to each of these Spanish Parks. Logically, The work corresponding to the last National Park declared remained to be edited., that of the Sierra de Guadarrama.
The first part of the book addresses the geography of its nature, its history, scenery, culture and protection
Both text and photos, with significant feet, together they follow a methodical plan. The first part of the book addresses five axial and general themes of the Guadarrama: the geography of its nature, its history, landscapes, its culture and the protection of the Sierra. The second goes into the mountains through five excursions through as many places, that make detailed examples, stepped on its slopes, from its very bases to its summits. Those five places in Guadarrama, chosen as expressive, its: the Reajo del Sestil del Maíllo, the Angostura Valley, La Pedriza de Manzanares, the tall pine forests and the lagoons of Peñalara.
First the book focuses on the nature of Guadarrama, which constitutes its primary framework, from a geographical perspective. Its values have given rise to repeated expressions of naturalistic admiration, artistic, scientific and cultural, which has led to the claim, achievement and management of its progressive conservation. Mountain with long slopes and steep slopes, landscape staircase from the oaks on its bases to the boulder, the rock and the snow of the summit, although late recognized, Its image has become so powerful that it has become a geographical symbol.. The saw, wild enough, has kept a wild and mountainous space in wide expanses.
The saw, wild enough, has kept a wild and mountainous space in wide expanses
In the Sierra they merge, however, history and nature. To the local history of the mountain, the history derived from its powerful urban centers is also added here.
neighbors with association to major historical events. As its bases and internal valley have been populated since ancient times, The mountain has experienced logical uses – forestry, rancher, wayfarer, miner, stonecutter, water, hygienic and tourist-, so that the mountain landscape everywhere shows a human face of long life.
The orographic sectors that make up the Sierra make up three juxtaposed sections, which add up to a total of twenty-three landscape units. The first sector, Western, which in this book is symbolically called “Abantos”, Follow the Almenara mountain range to the Pinar de la Acebeda. The second, central, “Port Sector”, goes from Siete Picos to Cabrera; and the third, northern, “Sector Carpetano”, understands Peñalara, its mountain extension and the Lozoya Trench. The “Abantos” segment is further divided into eight units, that of the “Puerto” in nine and the “Carpetano” in six. In this way they are described geographically, with their corresponding photographic illustrations, in a general sweep of the Sierra, its most outstanding landscape elements. The Guadarrama is, like every mountain, multicellular and, while, a unique geographical organism. We can look at its pieces separately, but we will not understand them except in their connection as a whole.
The Guadarrama is, like every mountain, multicelular: we can look at it separately, but we will not understand them except in their connection as a whole
There was a founding milestone of Guadarramaism especially marked with the constitution of the Society for the study of Guadarrama in 1886, directed by Macpherson, Same, Quiroga and Bolívar and with partners like Giner, Cossío, Rubio, Riaño, Beruete, Torres Campos, Lázaro Ibiza and Velázquez. Since the beginning of the 20th century, there have been weight-bearing mountaineering centers, such as the Hiking Sports Society or the Spanish Alpine Club and the Spanish Society of
Peñalara Mountaineering. The quality of the mountain landscapes and its proximity to artistic centers, intellectuals and scientists from Madrid and Segovia have given rise to a broad cultural contribution to the Guadarrama, qualified, diverse and durable.
The Guadarrama was initially the object of conservation within the dispersed cataloging of Natural Sites of National Interest and Natural Monuments; then he got it, partially, as a Natural and Regional Park and as an integral part of a more extensive Biosphere Reserve, with its enclaves of Zepas and Lics; and finally it is as a National Park, with a broad meaning, grouper, demanding and definitive. Millennia of natural evolution and centuries of historical process are accumulated in the landscape of the Sierra with qualities and harmony. The Guadarrama is a refuge of greater geographical values. Therefore, it is not just another resource but a special heritage., scarce and reduced to itself. Its declaration as a National Park recognizes such values and protects them with the best instruments that our society has granted itself..
Millennia of natural evolution and centuries of historical process are accumulated in the landscape of the Sierra
The five Guadarrama places described here show in a complementary way different aspects of the mountain in order to know the basic elements that make up the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park in specific places.. Five steps that we can climb to explore your profile, from the valleys to the peaks. They are not in the same profile one after the other as in a staircase, but through different places in Guadarrama, but they can be linked in different walks.
El Reajo del Sestil del Maíllo seems like a northern place sheltered in the interior of the mountains. But “reajo”, they scold, arroyo, It is a very mountain name; the “sestile”
also, where the cattle rest; and “maíllo”, the wild apple tree, It is very evocative of our middle mountains. The Angostura Valley extends its itinerary through the upper part of the Lozoya Valley in a long route. This magnificent forest contains many corners, but above all the great surprise of some very old yew trees located near the course of the Arroyo Borondillo.
The Pedriza rocks seem to form a rock waterfall that descends to the base of Manzanares in successive waves.
Another of these key pieces is the rocky landscape of La Pedriza, essentially stone mass that lives up to its name. The rocks here seem to form a rock waterfall that descends from the mountain ranges to the base of Manzanares in successive waves.. In the tall pine forest, as the book says, It is “the silence of the Sierra that matters, what is seen and heard in nature, like berroqueños bowling covered in moss, the meadows in peace, the sound of the treetops moved by the wind, the crackling of the branches, the same silence. The calm, the stillness is seen and heard in the shadows, on the backdrops of trees, in the light woven on the ground, in the hidden bushes, in the great pines whose age and size give you warnings, in the ephemeral cloud that arises and dissipates".
To get to know the Sierra well you have to visit it at least twice a year: one in a month with snow and another with the flowering broom
Regarding Peñalara, “It is the highest mountain in Guadarrama and almost a high mountain Guadarrama, It is not the same". We have one last recommendation: To get to know the Sierra well there is, course, to access its interior with the intention of enjoying and learning, but you have to do it at least twice a year, one in a month with snow and another with the flowering broom. After these initial tours (or initiators) many more will come, because the Sierra is inexhaustible.
Welcome to this book, true tribute to the Sierra de Guadarrama.
