HIKING ACTIVITY FOR TEACHERS FROM IES ALHAKEN II

A bunch of school teachers joined together on a Sunday morning for a hike in the mountains surrounding the city. We took a bus to a little village called Santa María de Trassierra, where we started the hike all the way down to Córdoba.

                                     

We went through some dense forests, full of Meditarranean vegetation: holm oak, kermes oak, locust tree, huckberry, etc. 

The path that we walked follows the original route that Romans used 2000 years ago to connect the city (Corduba) to the copper mines in the mountains.

Another nice spot during the hike is the replica of the Fountain of Elepahant, which was built at the time of the Muslim caliphate in Córdoba in the XIth century. This area was a large recreation place in the mountains where the upper classes would come to relax far away from the bustling city of those years.

By the end of the path, there is a fork which leads to the old Palace-City of Madinat Al-Zahra. One of the most beautiful places in this other path is the so-called Puente de Los Nogales (Nut trees Bridge). This three arches bridge connected the caliphal palace and the city and allowed heavy carts, full of goods, to be moved to and from Madinat Al-Zahra.