Link profile: Sierra Norte

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As its name says, the Sierra Norte is the northerly part of the Sierra de Madrid, more properly called the Sierra de Guadarrama. It is a beautiful, rural area, attractive both for its landscapes and its lovely, historic villages. The former include the Peñalara Nature Reserve, the highest place in the region of Madrid, climbing to 2,428 metres, and the Hayedo de Montej, an unusually southerly beech forest. Its centres of population are mostly villages and hamlets of mediaeval origin, many with historic churches, monasteries or hermitages, old palaces testifying to more prosperous times, or castles reminding that Madrid is historically part of New Castile. The area has suffered the ravages of rural depression and depopulation, but is undergoing something of a revival with the increasing popularity of rural tourism. The link goes to a commercial website for the Sierra Norte, Spanish-only but otherwise thoroughly admirable, with information on the area's villages and hamlets, maps, hotel and restaurant guides, webcams, articles, events and a forum. If Spain and Portugal had a star rating system, this site would get four out of five, minimum.
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