Via Verde de la Sierra
Olvera_ Area Caravanna.
A small private area next to the Station Hotel for four motorhomes. The access is difficult if you do not speak Spanish as you must ring a phone number to get a passcode for the gate lock and as the message is in Spanish. We were luck a young couple arrived and we gained entry on their knowledge. Very nice quiet spot with the bar and restauran t of the hotel very close.
Beautifull cycle from Olvera 36.6 kilometres to Puerto Sorrano on a disused railway track. 30 tunnels and stunning scenery.
The Sierra Greenway goes along the old Jerez-Almargen railway line. Voted the best Greenway in Europe in 2009, La Vía Verde de la Sierra runs for 36.5 km at the foot of the southernmost mountains of Spain, between the Cádiz towns of Olvera and Puerto Serrano, and in between, the Seville town of Coripe. It traverses some of the most beautiful and spectacular countryside in Andalucía, and follows a section of the old railway line from Jerez to Setinil and Grazalema, first proposed by the Cádiz authorities in 1888, but which progressed no further than the paperwork.
Attempt number four was instigated in 1925 by Málaga-born Rafael Benjumea Burin, the Minister for Development appointed by the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera. The Minister was an engineer by profession, and his ambition was to create a railway system that would serve military and strategic interests. The idea was to connect more directly the naval bases at Cádiz and Cartagena.
Between 1926 and 1933, tens of millions of pesetas were poured into the construction which was divided into three phases, each being awarded to a different construction company. Work was halted during the Civil War, recommenced again at the end of the Second World War, but due to a lack of impetus and momentum, together with a change in the economic viability of the project, it was finally abandoned in 1962. Not a single train ever ran on the line.
Via Verde de la Sierra
Olvera_ Area Caravanna.
A small private area next to the Station Hotel for four motorhomes. The access is difficult if you do not speak Spanish as you must ring a phone number to get a passcode for the gate lock and as the message is in Spanish. We were luck a young couple arrived and we gained entry on their knowledge. Very nice quiet spot with the bar and restauran t of the hotel very close.
Beautifull cycle from Olvera 36.6 kilometres to Puerto Sorrano on a disused railway track. 30 tunnels and stunning scenery.
The Sierra Greenway goes along the old Jerez-Almargen railway line. Voted the best Greenway in Europe in 2009, La Vía Verde de la Sierra runs for 36.5 km at the foot of the southernmost mountains of Spain, between the Cádiz towns of Olvera and Puerto Serrano, and in between, the Seville town of Coripe. It traverses some of the most beautiful and spectacular countryside in Andalucía, and follows a section of the old railway line from Jerez to Setinil and Grazalema, first proposed by the Cádiz authorities in 1888, but which progressed no further than the paperwork.
Attempt number four was instigated in 1925 by Málaga-born Rafael Benjumea Burin, the Minister for Development appointed by the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera. The Minister was an engineer by profession, and his ambition was to create a railway system that would serve military and strategic interests. The idea was to connect more directly the naval bases at Cádiz and Cartagena.
Between 1926 and 1933, tens of millions of pesetas were poured into the construction which was divided into three phases, each being awarded to a different construction company. Work was halted during the Civil War, recommenced again at the end of the Second World War, but due to a lack of impetus and momentum, together with a change in the economic viability of the project, it was finally abandoned in 1962. Not a single train ever ran on the line.