BETWEEN THE RIVER AND SIERRA

Castril is located in a promontory that dominates to the waters of always generous river, waters which some kilometers are born above, in the heart of a majestic mountain range, whose ecological and landscaping interest has propicionado its declaration how protected natural park.

 The footbridge

It flies over the river on a scaffolding of old fitted passages of railroad in the rocky wall, crossing a spectacular called throat “the closed one”. Its departure point is located next to the old one makes of the light to 500m of the urban center. When finalizing the footbridge, its footpath crosses the channel through a tightened metallic bridge and continuous by a gallery drilled on the rock, of almost seventy meters in length, that has bacón from which it is contemplated I complete section of narrow throat.

The natural park

The mountain range, whose elevated levels more exceed 2000m, is crossed by the Castril river. The action of running water and the limestone nature of the ground have originated a spectacular relief, creating an interesting landscape of precipices, closed cascades and. The interesting park also lodges simas and underground grottos, how the one of Don Frenando, the one of greater length and depth of the province of Granada. Its orography makes suitable for practices it of montañismo, senderismo and bicycle of mountain