Ruidera is a small town in the province of Ciudad Real, with a population of about seven hundred inhabitants, whose economy revolves, almost entirely, on tourism.
Set in the middle of the Upper Guadiana river basin, giving name to the lake rosary; basin is located in the northern part of the Campo de Montiel. This zone covers an area river approximately 4,000 hectares, of which 3772 belong to the NATURAL PARK LAKES RUIDERA and declared July 13, 1979.
Ruidera To visit, you can do for the national road N/430 (Badajoz, Valencia). If from Albacete in the direction Badajoz, locate the town a hundred kilometers from the capital of La Mancha. In the opposite direction is far one hundred kilometers from Ciudad Real and fifty of Manzanares. Travelling from Madrid is accessed from Manzanares or from Villarta of San Juan, the latter locality where there is a diversion to Argamasilla de Alba which is about twenty miles Ruidera.
history.
What we consider as the scope of Ruidera presents "fingerprints" of human beings in a very remote past, reaching prehistoric stages in which the weapon more accurate and precious few songs were cut back in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic (200,000 to 30,000 years).
Other settlements closer in time, vague chronology, we dare to frame them in the Neolithic period, but will be in the Age of Metal when the ecosystem Ruidera or Alto Guadiana display pools populated by social structures, to a considerable level . In that phase of the early history we find some intriguing buildings and badly damaged, known as "The Motillas" whose chronology of 1,800 to 1,200 would be BC. Already
Iberian-Roman phase, this area was located in the region Laminitana. Belonged to this site and was Lamini term mentioned by Pliny and Ptolemy, as military mansion way from Rome ended in Cadiz, which ran from Mérida to Zaragoza, and the starting point of which was headed to Toledo Consuegra.
Ruidera The word appears in the Middle Ages. "The Ruidera del Guadiana" might express the noise of falling water over the falls of the sinking. However, in the sixteenth century Atlas of the Escorial, a contemporary of Topographic Relations of Philip II, it appears as Riadera, perhaps by the frequent overflowing of the lakes. Ruidera
belonged to the Order of Santiago to the founding of the Royal Ruidera site in 1783, with the lagoon or Hung Long, the King's Cave and part Morenilla Coladilla, which for 550 years were in the hands of the Order of Santiago, became part of the Royal Place and therefore belong to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
Real Ruidera Site has been belonging to the municipality of Argamasilla de Alba (population of the Order of San Juan), a hamlet attached to the day September 21, 1990, when Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha independence agreed upon admissibility of the proposed segregation, courageously made by local politicians at the time and unequivocally supported by most ruidereños.
Heritage. Talking
Artistic Heritage de Ruidera es sin duda adentrarse en un paraiso natural sin igual en todo el territorio. Las Lagunas de Ruidera.
Camino de Ruidera, a catorce o quince kilómetros de Argamasilla de Alba, pasamos por el pantano de Peñarroya, y siguiendo por esta ruta nos vamos internando por una zigzagueante carretera hasta encontrarnos con la última laguna, la CENAGOSA o CENAGAL, divisándose vagamente en dirección oeste, oculto por la vegetación lacustre, el puente de la Esclusa. A la izquierda de la carretera está el caserío del Real Sitio de la Magdalena, con su relevante ermita, siendo ambas construcciones obra del gran arquitecto Juan de Villanueva, levantadas por los años 1783-1785.
Más arriba está la laguna COLADILLA, convertida, como la anterior, en zona pantanosa, aunque con un espacio abierto en la lámina del agua, marcado por el típico cerco de carrizos y masiegas.
La laguna inmediata a éstas es la MORENILLA o CUEVA MORENILLA, con una longitud y anchura máxima de 500 y 200 metros respectivamente. Kilómetro y medio más arriba nos encontramos con la población de RUIDERA. Al visitante que se hospede en los establecimientos hoteleros de Ruidera le resultará más fácil contemplar algunas ruinas y dependencias de la antigua Fábrica de Pólvora, construida por Juan de Villanueva, la Casa del Rey, aposento del Infante D. Gabriel, hijo de Carlos III, y también el HUNDIMIENTO, que destaca como maravilla natural en este environment, carved by torrents of water to overflow the ponds.
to continue visiting the lakes upstream, you must turn onto the road to the left, the winds, still the KING of the first where we are. Before you should visit the Reception Center Park, located in these lakes, which provides timely information. La Laguna del Rey is the second largest lake in the whole series, with a length of one kilometer and an area of \u200b\u200b33.72 hectares, taking "in the deepest ravines over a hundred feet," says local people. United
to the King for a short river, the lake is HUNG, which has a surface of 103.93 hectares, with a very irregular contour length approximately three miles. At the point of the boundary between the provinces of Ciudad Real and Albacete is a place known as La Isla, where there was a medieval fortress. At the end of the lagoon Hanging beside the road, is the Youth Hostel "Alonso Quijano." Hanging
Lagoon BATAN communicates with a channel made by the hand of man. Batan has the oval profile in the vicinity are relics of old mills and fulling. Separated from the lagoon
Beat the lagoon we SANTO Santo MORCILLO or cherubs. The separation step or travertine forming a waterfall, in relation to the sheet of water, usually between 10 and 15 meters.
exceeded the Holy Morcillo, we find the SAVING, separated from the former by a band travertine, and along the lake chain reached the tongue, which in times of flood, to pour into the savior, is a gorgeous ravine or fast . Language no marsh vegetation along its banks to be bounded by a monumental wall Tobazo.
And so we reached the lagoon smallest of all (although a little higher there was another smaller, the Cup), the Redondilla, oval and 3.72 hectares, separated from the language of the iconic travertine usually leads to a spectacular cascade.
If we visit the Cave of Montesinos and Castle Rochafrida, we can do this by going along the road that branches off to the Lakes, left, at the height of the Redondilla or deflected by an asphalt road that bathes the Laguna San Pedro. Before we reach the hermitage of San Pedro de Sahelices, a sanctuary that must have existed when the Reconquista, and its early Christian origins perhaps. Continuing up the road leads to the Cave of Montesinos, whose fame comes mainly from the adventure that she spent the hero of La Mancha Don Quixote.
Descending from the cave we see a deviation labeled indicating the route to follow to reach the Castle of Rochafrida, contained in the year 1216 as the castle of San Felix. It is believed that the name "Rochafrida" sixteenth century.
If we reach the beginning of the Upper Guadiana while contemplating the rosary lagoon, we must go back to the road again along the Laguna San Pedro, which, like the language, at its mouth is flanked by a picturesque wall calcite.
The San Pedra TINAJA refers to the lagoon through two channels trephining travertine. The Tinaja shaped, more or less, tub, with an area of \u200b\u200babout ten hectares. An important point to highlight this gap is the large amount of printed schematic displayed on its walls, many of them prehistoric.
Above this gap in sight of the lagoon thyme, triangular shape. From here, if we continue the climb, we must do it for roads, skirting Lake CITY, with a length of 1,800 meters. The ecological environment of the lagoon is the most acceptable of all the Natural Park.
Finally, from the Council to Laguna Blanca, the journey becomes quite difficult, especially for passenger cars, making it convenient to do so by road from Ossa de Montiel, Villahermosa, especially if we want to see the source of the Zampullones.
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