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THE BIERZO AND THE ANCARES


Leonese company specialized in Thematic Tours and private visits both for individuals and for Travel Agencies (wholesalers, retailers), Associations, Private Companies and Public, School Organizations, etc.

Not only in the city of León, but throughout the province. Local Leonese official tourist guides, proud of their land that will create a beautiful, unique and unrepeatable experience.

Private guided tour that combines the most important tourist resources of the city of Ponferrada, such as the Castle of the Templars and its historic center, led by the best official Leonese tourist guides

Trip 1: Essential Ponferrada (Castle + City Tour)

Ponferrada

In this combined view you will discover in the first part, the Castle of the Templars. We will enter the bowels of this magnificent fortress to discover its wall of three rounds, its five towers, spiral staircases, palaces, as well as its libraries.

And in a second part, as the city has been for centuries, an obligatory passage (between the plateau and the neighboring Galician lands) of the pilgrims who travel the Camino de Santiago to Compostela, which were protected by the Knights Templar within the walls del Castillo; thus growing the walled city and forming a Jewish community.


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Nice walk through the old Roman gold mines, forming a cultural landscape since 1997 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Trip 2: Las Médulas

Ponferrada

This route runs through the largest gold mine in the entire Roman Empire, which was already frequented by lovers of nature and archeology in the 19th century. Las Médulas were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997. They are located in El Bierzo, northwest of the Montes Aquilanos and next to the Sil River Valley, being an impressive landscape unique in Spain formed as a result of gold mining Romans.


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Valle del Silencio or Tebaida Berciana, with centuries-old chestnut forests, hermitage-caves, crystal-clear waters, remote villages... await us

Trip 3: The Valley of Silence

Bierzo

We will enter the Valley of Silence, also known as the "Tebaida Berciana" for being a mountainous and secluded place where numerous monks such as San Fructuoso or San Genadio retired to live during the Middle Ages.

Region where you can taste some of the most typical products such as its famous botillo, piquillo pepper, chestnuts, or Bierzo wine.


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Villafranca del Bierzo, one of the most important towns through which the French Way of Saint James passes

Trip 4: Villafranca del Bierzo

Bierzo

We will travel to the historic Villafranca del Bierzo, the former capital of the homonymous region and one of the most beautiful towns in the province of León. Since the Middle Ages, Villafranca has been one of the most important points on the French Camino de Santiago and in its Romanesque church of Santiago (crossing the famous Puerta del Perdón) pilgrims could obtain a plenary indulgence in case they could not continue to Santiago.

During the tour we will accompany you through one of the most beautiful areas of Bierzo, where you will discover a place where nature and wine tourism are very fashionable.


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