(re)Wandering in Madrid: Dehesa de la Villa

January, 2018
by Editorial Team

This can be seen as an attempt to recover the reality of space and the pleasure of real exploration in the urban context where most of us actually live or travel to. It belongs to a series of personal immersions that are explained and listed here. You can download the GPS track and its tags/waypoints from Google Maps.

Dehesa de la Villa Trail, Moncloa-Aravaca, Madrid, Spain

Distance: 5.3 km – Total climb: 192 m – Total descent: 187 m – Duration: 1:20 hrs

So there is this isolated 64-hectare “pasture” with cedar plantations. Reforested with pine trees in the days of Queen Isabel II, the Dehesa de la Villa park is now half an hour away from the center of Madrid in an apparently anonymous area.

Tagged: Sporty (3), Artsy (3), Informative (2), Green, Relaxing, Colorful, Pretty, Busy, Playful, Surprising, Noisy, Decadent, Promising.

Tags/waypoints reveal the key features of the wandering without being too much of a spoiler. This, like all the other trails, is more enjoyable in good weather and daylight.

GPS track and waypoints recorded with Trails and OSMTracker.