South of Guadalupe, we found this Via Verde called Via Verde Vegas del Guadiana, which leads from the river Guadiana north through rice fields and the dehesa landscape – pastures with oak trees. It is a 57 km long track between Villanueva del la Serena and Logrosán. This railway was not even completed before the …
After we had found this wonderful spot at the Embalse de Plasencia, a dam at the río Jerte with great water to swim and a nice shore to park and relax, we didn’t want to leave again to drive to the Via Verde de la Plata. But we found a cycling route along the dam, …
Even with the heat, we wanted to cycle along another railway line, the Via Verde de la Jara which is in total 52 km long. It starts at Calera y Chozas, leading south over the Tajo via an enormous viaduct and up into the mountains on the other side, which are dominated by a savannah …
We love the Via Verdes in Spain – former railway tracks converted into cycling routes. This one is called Via Verde del Trenillo. It leads straight through a flat landscape, so we didn’t expect too much and therefore were positively surprised. We started from Villacañas, where we had spent the night at a shady picnic …
After spending the night at a beautiful spot at the Danube, we first visited our Tatra at Aigner trucks (more in a separate post) and then started from Arnstorf with our bikes along an old train route called Bockerl until we reached the Bockerl Bridge over the river Isar near Landau. Chapel for cyclists in …
We needed some exercise again, so we looked for the next Via Verde, which we found between Segovia and Nava de la Asunción along the former train line which followed the Eresma river. There was a parking at Nava de la Asunción (41.158436, -4.486036) directly at the Via Verde. It seems …
In Vila Real starts a former railway line along the Corgo river, which was converted into an Ecopista. The colors of the hills this time of the year were amazing! The route starts from an old train station on the outskirts of Vila Real (41.312678, -7.718249) There are no signs and it is just a …
The plan was to continue the Ecopista the next day from the point where we had turned around in Tondela, but the weather put a spoke into our wheel ;-). The next day it was raining cats and dogs, so we decided to drive on. We found a very interesting museum in Caramulo – details …
After hiking in the mountains, we decided to change to riding the bikes for a while. We chose the Ecopista – or Via Verde how it would be called in Spain – along the Dão river, starting in Santa Comba Dão. The disused branch line once connected Viseu with Santa Comba Dão. Almost 50 kilometres …
In the mountains north of Sevilla, we cycled the route of a former mine railway. The iron ore won in the open pit at San Nicolás del Puerto was transported from 1895 onwards into the valley and to an already existing railway line. Today it is a cycling route through a very green and beautiful …
