Camino del Cid

Jadraque to Mandayona

Senderos Borderlands

Tuesday 16 May 2023

Distance: 22.2 km Time: 6:15 Ascent: 250m Descent: 200m – Wikiloc

An easy walk and a pleasant day. After climbing about 200m out of Jadraque and an equal descent on the other side, the path was more or less level following good quality tractor tracks though fields. There’s a village every hour for a break.

Leaving Jadraque we passed the 16th century Church of San Juan Bautista
A gentle climb, about 200m in 2.5 km, out of Jadraque
Spring time field of flowers
The Heneres Valley on the other side of the mountain is much more fertile
Bujalaro (pop 41) Church of San Anton, 16th century
Bujalaro’s Fountain with a duck shaped spout
Easy walking along tractor tracks though fields of wheat
Matillas (pop 103) cement factory, opened 1909 closed 1995
On the Safe Conduct stamp
We walked alongside the canal that runs about 10 km to provide water for the electric powerhouse and former flour mill at Matillas
13th century Romanesque Church of San Blas in Villaseca de Henares (pop 26)
16th century San Pedro’s Apostle church of Mandayona (pop 266)