Madrid’s Sierra Norte offers a variety of tourist resources that are hard to come by anywhere else. Mountain villages, charming nooks, trails, pastures and meadows, peaks, rivers, large bodies of water, forests that line the riverbanks, pine and oak groves and even one of the most revered oak groves in Spain, the Hayedo de Montejo. In these lands, one may still experience a pastoral life consigned to oblivion today, a life when the hour of the day was marked by natural cycles.
A great option for a two-day getaway in this wide expanse of land to the north of the Region of Madrid, consists of its towns situated in the river basin of Jarama, into which the River Lozoya drains. The confluence of these two rivers, one descending from the Sierra del Rincón and the other from Macizo de Peñalara, is precisely where we begin our exploration.