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The ceding of the mountains to the Coto Real de Gredos

Candeleda, Arenas de San Pedro, Ávila

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The ceding of the mountains to the Coto Real de Gredos

Historical milestone · Candeleda, Arenas de San Pedro, Ávila

Image of Candeleda, not of the place itself.

The municipality ceded in 1905 common lands to the king to constitute the Royal Hunting Preserve of Gredos, the instrument with which the Iberian ibex was protected in the range and a distant forerunner of the present regional park.

1905

Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Jcillero assumed (based on copyright claims). (Public domain)

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