Las Medulas
Las Medulas is an old Roman gold mine in northwestern Spain. Gold has been mined here hydraulically for almost 300 years, starting in the first century BC. Pliny the Elder wrote about this mine: "What is happening in Las Medulas is much harder than the work of the Titans."
Ancient engineers have co...
Torcal de Antequera National Park
Torcal de Antequera is a national park in Spain, founded in 1989. The park covers an area of only 20 km2, but nature has worked hard in this small space. Under the influence of erosion over tens of millions of years, rocks and stones of bizarre shapes have formed here, which are a striking example o...
Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park
Ordesa y Monte Perdido is a national park in Spain, in the province of Huesc. The park was founded in 1918 according to a Royal Decree declaring the Ordesa Valley a national park. At that time, its territory occupied 21 km2, but in 1982 the park was increased to 156 km2 and received its current name...
Doñana National Park
Doñana is a national park in Spain, 90 kilometers south of Seville. It was founded in 1963. It covers an area of 75,800 hectares. The park protects pine forests on the dunes of the ocean coast and freshwater marshes at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. Dongyang National Park was included in the W...
