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What to see and do in Manzanal de Arriba

What to see and do in Manzanal de Arriba (La Carballeda, Zamora): 6 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Curiosities

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Santa Cruz de los Cuérragos 9.3 km

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What to see and do in Manzanal de Arriba

Manzanal de Arriba
Village
Manzanal de Arriba, in Carballés Manzanal d'Enriba, is a municipality of 332 inhabitants in the comarca of La Carballeda, in the province of Zamora, which brings together eight hamlets, among them Codesal, Folgoso de la Carballeda, Sagallos, Sandín and Santa Cruz de los Cuérragos. Set into the apse wall of its church of San Mamés is a 10th-century Mozarabic lattice window, with four arrow slits and two pierced oculi. In the Covacha del Portillón, south of Linarejos, one of the province's few examples of prehistoric schematic art is preserved, with anthropomorphic figures and series of reddish bars. Near the municipality ran the Roman road that linked Astorga and Braga. In the Middle Ages it was part of the Kingdom of León, and in the early modern period it belonged to the Lands of the Count of Benavente.
Santa Cruz de los Cuérragos
Monument
Declared an ethnological complex on 26 June 2008, this village of six residents spills down the slope of Peña Castillo facing Portugal, with the best-preserved mountain vernacular architecture in the area. It lies at the western edge of the province of Zamora, at the meeting point of the comarcas of Aliste, Sanabria and La Carballeda, within the Sierra de la Culebra Nature Reserve, at 900 metres above sea level. Its buildings, which use slate even in the walls, are related to those of Robledo and Ungilde, in Sanabria. In the mid-19th century it had only 18 inhabitants; around 1850 it was incorporated into the municipality of Folgoso de la Carballeda, which later moved its seat to Manzanal, renamed Manzanal de Arriba around 1900.
The Mozarabic lattice screen of San Mamés
Monument
The parish church preserves a fragment of tenth-century tracery carved in a round-headed slab, with four narrow openings, small oculi and crosses with equal arms, a rare testimony of Mozarabic art.
The Bridge of Hell
Monument
It crosses the river Manzanas at the bottom of the valley of Santa Cruz de los Cuérragos, beside an old mill; its name alludes to how abrupt the crossing is, in the middle of the natural area of the Sierra de la Culebra.
The Peña Castillo
Nature
At 1,185 metres it is one of the three greatest heights of the Sierra de la Culebra; halfway up the slope, at nine hundred metres, sits Santa Cruz de los Cuérragos, and from the summit the border with Portugal is taken in.
The rock art of the Covacha del Portillón
Curiosity
South of Linarejos schematic rock paintings are preserved in the Covacha del Portillón and in the Abrigo de Melendro, the oldest traces of human occupation in this corner of the Carballeda.