Burgos information
Sedano region
Sedano and Las Loras
An extensive territory is located in the north-west of the province
of Burgos,similar to an enchanted labyrinth of rock, water and
greenness. It is a tight and spectacular succession of canyons,
bleak highland and dark-brown coloured land. A privileged region
where Nature in its purest state can still be found and where
the traveller will recover the rhythm of the yearned for traditional
life. The regions of Sedano and Las Loras are also a crossroads
where history and secular human activity have left an unrepeatable
and brilliant mark. In short, a paradise where the most attractive
rural tourism can be enjoyed, travelling in time through the route
of the dolmens, discovering the legendary Peña Amaya, being
surprised by an unrepeatable group of Romanesque churches, savouring
several delightful villages and practising trekking, rafting and
adventure sports in the canyons of the Ebro and the Rudron.
The lands of Sedano and Las Loras form a well-communicated region whose name has only to be mentioned to become submerged in a succession of pleasant and unrepeatable sensations.
Canyons of the Ebro and of the Rudron
The impressive group of valleys, ravines, gorges, gorges in an
anticlinal fold and canyons, which the river Ebro and its tributaries
cross on the way through the lands of the north-east of the province
of Burgos, form one of the natural spaces with most personality,
wealth and variety of ecosystems in the whole Iberian Peninsula.
If, botanically, this extensive territory seems to be buried in
the area of transition between the Atlantic and Mediterranean
biogeographical regions, from the fauna viewpoint, it is a real
reserve for one of the most threatened animals in Spain.
The star enclave of all this region is the Canyon of the Ebro:
a winding and deep ravine measuring more than 200 metres deep
carved by this river in the hard limestone materials of the Bleak
Uplands of La Lora. A paradise for trekkers and lovers of birds
of prey, the canyons of the Ebro and the Rudron have been declared
as Protected Landscape.
The Dolmen Route
In the austere landscape of the moors that preside the highlands
of the region of Sedano, one of the greatest dolmen groups in
Europe is situated. It dates back around 5,000 years, during the
Neolithic times, and the archaeologists confirm a later utilisation
of more than one thousand years. The architectonic and functional
scheme of these funerary megaliths responds basically to a variant
known as a corridor tomb, which is made up of a circular or polygonal
chamber and a long access passageway. The internal structure is
raised with large lofty stone slabs, protected by an outer pile,
the burial mound, of soil and stones.The most spectacular of all
of them is the dolmen of Las Arnillas, in the district of Moradillo
de Sedano. It can be reached by walking through the valley of
the Granja close to Gredilla- or by a four-by-four following the signs.