We started the Demand Greenway in Monterrubio de la Demanda, province of Burgos but very close to the provincial limit with Soria.
Like so many other Greenways in our country, this one had its origin in the exploitation of a mine. Mining activity in the south of the Sierra de la Demanda in Burgos is an activity with centuries of history, exploitations have been known since the 15th century. But it was in the 19th century when mining, especially iron, experienced a great boom in this area, with furnaces being built in Barbadillo de Herreros.
We owe our journey to an English company: “The Sierra Limited Company”, which acquired the mines at the end of the 1500th century and obtained a concession for the construction of a mining railway. These works are subsidized by the Provincial Council of Burgos. The chronicles say that 1902 people work on the works and they were completed in 1910. The life of this railway was very brief since it closed in XNUMX. There were attempts to reopen it but they were unsuccessful. Perhaps the main achievement of this work was that thanks to the road trench there was access to what we know today as Atapuerca deposits which we will also visit during our weekend in Burgos.
On Saturday we will pedal along the Greenway and on Sunday we will do so along the French Camino de Santiago, we will visit Atapuerca and we will arrive at the city of Burgos, our final destination along the route of the euroveil 1.
An affordable tour, ideal to do in the fall and enjoy its forests and also the architecture of towns such as Pineda de la Sierra, Arlanzón, Ibeas de Juarros or Atapuerca.
We slept in Los Tomillares, in the heart of the Camino de Santiago, which gives its name to our hotel: the Camino de Santiago.
