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Before the hunting reserve was limited to the valley of the Batuecas. Now the park makes up a large part of the Sierra de Francia and provides a haven for protected species such as the linx, the wolf, the mountain goat, the royal eagle, the vulture or the black stork. |
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But
the jewel in the crown is without doubt the wild, craggy ravine which
many have considered an earthly paradise:Las
Batuecas.
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The
numerous caverns with cave paintings
to be seen along the way provide evidence that a genesis occurred in this
place. It's not for nothing that monks chose the entrance to this valley
as the place to set up home and they also built hermitages over the mountain
to meditate and be nearer to the creator.
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Something
never seen before in Spain, nor even imagined! So high is the mountain
we've just crossed that, as i behold it, it seems a closed fortress
with peaks which reach up to the very heavens. (Lope de Vega, Las Batuecas
del Duque de Alba)
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