{"id":2831,"date":"2024-08-29T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turismoserraniacuenca.com\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2024-10-14T21:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T19:08:49","slug":"una-la-pequena-joya-de-la-serrania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turismoserraniacuenca.com\/en\/una-la-pequena-joya-de-la-serrania\/","title":{"rendered":"U\u00f1a, the little jewel of La Serran\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is about one of the smallest towns in the Serran\u00eda Conquense<\/strong>, with only 88 registered inhabitants, but a must-see. It concentrates within its territory an endless number of enclaves of sublime beauty and essential places for those who want to get to know the Serran\u00eda Conquense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not in vain are there many tourist accommodations and bars and restaurants that invite the traveler to make a mandatory stop, and even to use this town as a base of operations from which to explore the rest of the mountain range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nail and its surroundings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nestled between huge limestone rock walls <\/strong>that flow from the so-called millstones towards the calm lagoon that bathes the streets of the town. It has one of the most famous trails in the entire Serran\u00eda, known as \u201cThe Staircase and the Line\u201d<\/a>, is the PR-CU 37<\/strong>, which will take us around the Laguna de U\u00f1a reaching the height of the molars to give us impressive views, which are the same as those observed by the numerous vultures that we will find peering over the cliffs, sometimes just a few meters above our heads, other times below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the impressive rock walls that dominate the landscape also shape the personality of the inhabitants of U\u00f1a, and perhaps for this reason we can find a small but beautiful curiosity along the path, the hermitage of \u201cThe Virgin of Espinar\u201d<\/strong>, located in a corner of a rock, a little hidden, but highly revered by its countrymen, who constantly adorn it with flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To ascend to the U\u00f1a Viewpoint<\/a>, where we can have an impressive perspective of the whole town and its enclave, we will have to pass by the Regional School of Fishing<\/strong>, in the Rinc\u00f3n stream where courses are sometimes organized for those who want to start in the art of river fishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A little further up the stream a small fish farm located in the beautiful enclave of Rinc\u00f3n de U\u00f1a <\/strong>works hard to return to the rivers of the Serran\u00eda the brown trout<\/strong> Once inhabiting every corner of the country, trout now need extra efforts to recover their once abundant presence due to habitat loss, river discontinuities caused by dams and weirs, and the warming of waters linked to global warming. Operating since 1974 and managed by the Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha,<\/strong> The fish farm opens its doors to tourists on occasion so they can learn about its work up close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U\u00f1a Lagoon, calm waters full of life<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Presiding over the landscape ensemble is the lagoon, which serves as refuge to a multitude of birds such as ducks, moorhens, black-winged stilts, herons and little egrets.<\/strong> The luckiest ones have also been able to spot some elusive otters in its waters. The U\u00f1a lagoon<\/a> It is formed by a wall of tufaceous rock that retains the waters of the Rinc\u00f3n stream and the Socarrado ravine<\/strong>Surrounding it we have a path accessible to the less athletic, simple but beautiful, it has several walkways that allow us to enter the lagoon, and a hiding place on one of its sides to observe the birds without being seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its waters are prohibited for bathing, since a large number of birds breed and nest on its banks.<\/strong>, so we are faced with a lagoon ecosystem of special importance that invites us to observe its many inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U\u00f1a Lagoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Wood, the great resource of the Serran\u00eda<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The history of this small town is linked to the timber harvesting <\/strong>of the extensive pine forests located in the heights called "las muelas", in this case a cable It covered a difference in altitude of 200 metres over a distance of just over a kilometre. <\/strong>to be able to lower the logs of the so-called \u201cWooden Mill\u201d.<\/strong> To give us an idea, we find a recently built structure that commemorates the 100 years of its commissioning. cable designed by Gustavo Torner,<\/strong> father of Jorge Torner (emblematic artist of the abstract art generation in Cuenca).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is about the wood unloading station,<\/strong> a sample of the vast industrial heritage linked to the wood of the Sierra. Thanks to the efforts of one of the associations that are most concerned with maintaining and recovering the natural and historical heritage of the area, Esparvel<\/a>.<\/strong> A huge wooden structure that recalls the old unloading station for the logs that were lowered from the heights by flying cables to lower them to the height of the lagoon, in one more of its stops on this intense Journey through mountains, cliffs and rivers<\/strong> towards the sawmills of Cuenca and the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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