Pereda de Ancares – Chestnuts, Trails and Ancares Culture

Pereda de Ancares stands out for a specific natural feature: the village is surrounded by ancient chestnut trees. If you are looking for a holiday apartment in Pereda de Ancares, you will also find a variety of trails, traditional crafts and distinctive cultural forms here.

Nature

The Camino Natural de la Mirada Circular initially leads towards Pereda de Ancares through meadows and then through an oak and chestnut forest with Castanea sativa. Before Pereda de Ancares, the trail crosses a river via a bridge. At the church of Pereda de Ancares, the route climbs uphill to a junction with a tourism centre.

Another trail connects Pereda de Ancares, Braña de Pereda and Tejedo. The route is 12.8 km long, designed as an easy circular trail, and begins and ends in Pereda de Ancares; the approximate walking time is given as 3 to 3.5 hours each way. It reaches Braña de Pereda, where the El Cabano da Braña shelter is available for a break.

The 21 km route from Pereda de Ancares to Campo del Agua leads to brañas, that is, high-altitude areas covered with pastureland. It also reaches the glacially shaped Burbia Valley, which is regarded as a typical landscape of Ancares. The two hiking options therefore differ in trail format, time required and landscape areas. These features can be considered separately when planning a day, without reducing the routes to the same type of hike.

Village Landscape

From Pereda de Ancares, the Riu seco area as well as Mirandelo and Fumeixín are accessible. The village also has a municipal swimming pool.

Culture

The Museo Rural “Casa-palloza de Ancares” conveys the way of life of the Ancares region in the pallozas, as well as the transition from the palloza to the Ancares-style house with a slate roof.

At Artesanía Pumarego, wood is worked by hand using traditional tools. This produces household items, sculptures and furniture. Artesanía Pumarego also organises visits to the Molino de Pereda, a grain mill.

The pandereta, also known as the pandeira, is one of the cultural assets that regularly occur in connection with Pereda de Ancares; it is used spontaneously, without a fixed frequency, or at festivals held throughout the year, such as summer festivals, magostos, entroidos and fiendeiros.

The Poncho de palla adds a historical detail to these cultural themes: this handmade garment, woven from reeds, was formerly worn by shepherds in the rain when driving livestock out to pasture. Thus, the current cultural offering includes communicated traditions alongside an explicitly former use.

Other Places

For further travel planning, you can also consider Valverde De La Virgen, Fuentes de Peñacorada, Valderas, Brimeda, Riello, Mansilla Mayor, Cubillos Del Sil and Ocero.

When choosing a holiday apartment in Pereda de Ancares, you can consider travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions as separate points of comparison. Travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions therefore stand alongside the described trails, landscapes and cultural forms as independent selection criteria.

For the overall travel overview: León.