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The Royal Drove Road of Cuenca

Vega del Codorno, Serranía Alta, Cuenca

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The Royal Drove Road of Cuenca

Historical milestone · Vega del Codorno, Serranía Alta, Cuenca

Image of Vega del Codorno, not of the place itself.

From these heights sets out the Cañada Real Conquense, also called de los Chorros, one of the great Castilian livestock droving routes that runs down from the Serranía de Cuenca to the winter pastures of the south, crossing the provinces of Cuenca, Ciudad Real and part of Jaén. Organized administratively by Alfonso VIII, who generously granted the land of Cuenca through which it passes rights and boundaries, it took part of its course alongside the old forge of Los Chorros, near which there was also a chapel. Formalized in the time of the Mesta, created in 1273, it is still walked by transhumant flocks every autumn.

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Photo: Cruccone (CC BY 3.0)

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