Route through the Sierra de Gata
The elevations of this mountain range do not reach those of other sectors of the Central System (especially the Sierra de Gredos), but they offer air tours as there are few in the center of the peninsula.
There where the leafy masses of oaks and chestnuts open up, great panoramas appear before the eye: the Alagón valley to the south, the granite masses that enter Portugal to the west and the mountains of the Sierra de Gata moving away to the east.
Except for brief sections that preserve vestiges of the old route, the roads are impeccable, lonely and hardly any traffic, of medium size and with a hypnotic sinuosity in a good part of the
route.
Three ports mark the limit between the great meadows of Extremadura and the lands of Salamanca. the old port (1108 m), the westernmost, located right on the border with Portugal, halfway between Valverde del Fresno and Navasfrías, offers an enormously suggestive section.
The route to the port of Santa Clara (1040 m), that meanders from Cilleros to Salamanca El Payo, it is accurately advertised as a “scenic road”. The tour is lovely.
The third is the port of Perales (910 m), frequented on weekends by numerous bikers from Salamanca and Cáceres who come attracted by its entertaining curves. Access to this pass from the north via the CL-526, which part of Ciudad Rodrigo, It is rectilinear and presents some of the most attractive lines in all of Castilla y León.
