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Trail of a Marronda

Baleira, Fonsagrada, Lugo

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Trail of a Marronda

Activity · Baleira, Fonsagrada, Lugo

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A 21-kilometre circular trail, waymarked as PR-G 145, that runs through the fraga of A Marronda and allows walkers to pass beneath the westernmost beech woods on the European continent, in the north of the concello. The forest, declared a special area of conservation, extends between the villages of A Braña, Mendreiras and Martín, over an area expanded in 2002 to 1,239 hectares at altitudes between 500 and 700 metres. It preserves a remarkable diversity of native trees and shrubs, with changing colours that intensify in autumn; the area is notable for buildings adapted to the mountain environment, such as square or circular hórreos with straw-thatched roofs (teito de palla). It can also be admired from the local road LU-750, where the forest drops sheer down to the río Martín.

Photo: Elisardojm (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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