each path tells a millenary story
Many cultural routes connect the local heritage with other territories through national and international routes and itineraries: The route of the Roman Villas of Hispania, the Argaric route, the European Network of Ceramic Cities or the European Cultural Itineraries of Unesco of the Rock Art Routes, the Andalusian Route of Ibn-Aljatib or the European Route of Industrial Heritage, to which the Snow Wells of Sierra Espuña belong. You can enjoy guided tours, workshops, excursions, thematic or dramatized visits throughout the year or go on your own and travel through history.
A trip to the Roman Hispania through a palatial Villa that preserves mosaics, thermal complex, oil and wine mill and even sarcophagi and remains of a paleochristian occupation after the fall of the Roman Empire. And if you feel like it, you can undertake the adventure of visiting all the Roman Villas that are preserved through the Network of Roman Villas of Hispania.
You can learn about the culture that, four thousand years ago, founded the first real inhabited cities and established a political system with the first parliament known in Europe. Discover the secrets of this civilization, settled in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula at the beginning of the Bronze Age, by visiting the sites of La Bastida and Almoloya and the interpretive room in the Museum of Mula.
If you follow in the footsteps of the route that undertook the great polygraph of Muslim Spain Ibn al Jatib in 1343. Travel to Al-Andalus by a European Itinerary of Unesco and know the Islamic footprint in the villages of Espuña. Breathe the Arab heritage, from the Castle of Alcalá, the Albacar, Las Paleras or the Tower of Aledo, and know the imprint of more than five centuries of Muslim domination in the Kingdom of Murcia.
A Unesco European Itinerary that covers the most important vestiges of the first important cultural, social and symbolic expression of humanity. In the Sierra Espuña Territory you can enjoy contemplating cave paintings in the Cueva de la Plata and in the shelter of El Milano. Hunting scenes with red and black lines will take you back to prehistoric times.