One thousand merino sheep and one hundred retinto goats from the transhumant herd are already in the Community of Madrid to travel this Sunday along Calle Mayor and Paseo de Recoletos in Madrid, among other central roads, at the XXVIII Festival of Trashumance. The transhumant herd, guided by the Trashumancia y Naturaleza Association and the Consejo de la Mesta Association, thus returns to the region after spending this summer in the pastures of Northern Spain. The animals left on September 25 from Cervera de Pisuerga and Polentinos in the Cantabrian Mountains of Palencia. During this month o
One thousand merino sheep and one hundred retinto goats from the transhumant herd are already in the Community of Madrid to travel this Sunday along Calle Mayor and Paseo de Recoletos in Madrid, among other central roads, at the XXVIII Festival of Trashumance. The transhumant herd, guided by the Trashumancia y Naturaleza Association and the Consejo de la Mesta Association, thus returns to the region after spending this summer in the pastures of Northern Spain. The animals left on September 25 from Cervera de Pisuerga and Polentinos in the Cantabrian Mountains of Palencia. During this month of transhumance, they have traveled the Cordel Cerverano that had not been used for more than half a century and the Cañada Real Leonesa Oriental to cross the Guadarrama National Park this Saturday, October 16, to be received that day by the Collado del Arcipreste by the authorities municipalities of Guadarrama. The herd is directed by Jesús Garzón, president of Trashumancia y Naturaleza and the Mesta Council, by Marity González, first Mayorala of the Mesta Council, by three shepherds and a hatero, defended by 6 mastiff dogs, 4 Basque careas and 1 It carea lions, which help the shepherds in their management. The Community of Madrid, with 3,700 kilometers of cattle trails and an area of 12,600 hectares ( percent of the region), "most of them perfectly signposted, constitutes an extraordinary example of a densely populated and urbanized region that has known how to respect this unique heritage of the network of livestock routes ", point out the organizers of this festival that, in addition to betting on the recovery of this form of grazing as a way of protecting intangible heritage and the environment, they demand every year the maintenance and protection of the ravines and cattle tracks in Spain. Garzón has indicated that the herd is collaborating with the 'Life' project of the Autonomous University and the Community of Madrid, whose "fundamental" objectives are
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