We continue and end today my story of a recent Extremaduran trip, which we started to account last week, already placing ourselves in the return to Madrid from Guadalupe. With a first section to Peraleda and the Valdecañas reservoir, the perhaps more beautiful of the entire excursion, which we traveled without traffic, crossing the region of Ibor, which means in Arabic water fluidity … and rightly so.
The Tajo reservoir, in Valdecañas, looks like a sea, with a capacity of 1,446 cubic hectometers, one of the largest in Spain. Three times the Atazar, of which the Madrid people value at its maximum value as the main reservoir of the water we drink in Madrid.
Then, we visit the Isla Valdecañas urbanization, large, with quite uniform homes, somewhat cements and with some sadness. Verifying that an important investment has been made, without seeming to have a negative impact on nature; Among other things, because the area is treated with great generosity of vegetation.
We ate then, in Oropesa, quite well, and from there we left for Madrid, the great umbre capital. I with my eyes closed … very comfortable in my passenger seat, in pleasant sleep. Half dreaming, I remembered a previous trip touring the four great reservoirs of Guadiana: García de Sola, Cíjara, Valdepeñas, and Zújar (De La Serena). The latter the major in Spain and the second of the Iberian Peninsula, only behind El Alqueba. That by the way I also visited years ago, admiring the tourist uses, of great benefit for the residents of the area and the hydro -tourists.
And I finish, dear friends, my 2025 Extremaduran trip. Brief, but really formidable, especially as a true relief for an urbanity like me. That occasionally feels a kind of call from the earth. To glimpse landscapes that fill the soul of joy and the body of vitality, due to the great simplicity, changing color, ringing, and sensations of nature.