To approach to ski resort in summer can be a unique experience. From the Pyrenees to Sierra Nevada, the Spanish stations are one of the first tourist destinies of Europe in the winter, but also in summer it exists an ample supply of leisure, sports and adventure that allows to enjoy its well-taken care of facilities and their modern hotel infrastructures. Mountain bicycles, canes to fish, canoes, or excursions are some of the alternatives to the ski in these paradisíacos enclaves. In the Spanish slope of the Pyrenees they coexist until a total of sixteen ski resorts that offer to the skier everything what today it demands the world of the snow: attractive supply of apresquí and services.
The facilities of this mountain range have last infrastructures of ski, leisure and lodgings. It emphasizes in this sense the care dedicated to the practice of the familiar ski, with a special attention to day-care centers, parks of snow and other facilities for the small ones. Less interesting they are not the complementary supplies of cultural tourism, the gastronomy and other activities that are made in the scope of the sport in contact with the nature: iceskating, air balloons, rafting, senderismo, routes to horse, parapente and routes in bicycle, among others. Pyrenean the Catalan Baqueira-Beret is the winter sports resort more substitute of the eleven facilities of the Pyrenean one of Catalonia. For many fans, national as as much foreign, Baqueira has some of the best tracks of Europe.
It has very demanding routes to experienced skiers, although also it counts on great areas and layouts apt for newcomer. Another great advantage is its direction and its altitude that, along with average thousand of tubes, guarantee abundant snow of quality during all the season. To it it is necessary to even add his great luminosity and its pleasant temperatures in the coldest months. Outside the tracks, very the restaurants are visited that are in their proximities, recognized by their gastronomical excellence. In the capital of the valley of Arán, Vielha, is an Ice Palace with a skating track and conditionned swimming pool, that is the center of diversion and leisure of the zone of influence of the station. In the environs, the localities of Arties, Salardú and Bossot offer interesting buildings of Romanesque Art of centuries XII and XIII, and unit samples of the pirenaica popular architecture. If you are a lover of the free air and the nature, she will enchant Spain to him. Mainly by the variety and the state of conservation of its ecosystems. He is something confirmed officially by UNESCO, since our country counts on 33 natural spaces declared Reserve of the Biosphere, after the recent decision by which east title to six new Spanish resources is granted: the Area of Allariz in the province of Ourense, the Mountain range of the Corner in Madrid, almost half of the territory of Great Canary and, in the zone of Leon, the Argüellos, the Bernesga Stop and the Valleys of Omaña and Moon.
This important international recognition implies the special protection of each area by its ecological wealth, although it means much more. Because he emphasizes those sites in which the man has been able to settle down a harmonious relation with his surroundings, becoming a development model to follow. And he is that the Reserves of the Biosphere of Spain are places where will be able to feel of special way the beauty and the magic that the nature locks up. One will be with exceptional landscapes, unique species and, in addition, a pile of activities that will approach to him all this of a very attractive form. It is only question to choose. A good alternative to know anyone these spaces is the senderismo. Following the network of routes and ways existing, to his rate and with tranquillity, it will be able to discover from the spectacular resistances of the island of Great Canary to the interesting archaeological rest that lodge Valleys of Omaña and Moon.
If it decides to enter itself in the Bernesga Stop, we recommended to him that it reserves time for the observation of birds, since in this zone it is easy to see unit of birds in extinction danger, like the real milano, the travelling hawk, the real eagle or the egyptian vulture. There are other possibilities that also will allow him to appreciate the playful aspect of the nature. What seems to him to cross the Mountain range of the Corner in bicycle? Pedaleando by the footpaths of this region will be able to arrive until the hayedo of Montejo, one of the másmeridionales of Europe. A passage in canoe or a horse route is amused options to visit the territory of the Area of Allariz. Or if it desires something to him more exciting, practicing espeleología it will be able to admire as beautiful corners as the caves of Valporquero in the Argüellos. They are only some of the proposals that will find to venture themselves by the Reserves of the Biosphere of Spain. The best thing is than it goes to the different centers from interpretation and offices of tourism, where they will facilitate all the information to him that needs. This spring comes to Spain and enjoys like never the nature in balance.


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