Maestrazgo Trek

Before we set out on our first day of our Maestrazgo trek, we wondered if route finding would be difficult as our trek wound its way from village to village in a remote sparsely populated part of Spain. We'd chosen the region for a spring/ early summer holiday as the hills/ mountains were between 1000 -2000 metres so unlikely to be troubled by melting snow. We found on the first day and subsequent days that the waymarks were excellent and route finding was not a problem. This gave us time to enjoy the hills/mountains and the steep sided valleys or gorges as well as the flowers and trees. Our most stunning memory was looking down from the rim of the Pitarque gorge and seeing the source of the river we had reached two hours previously.Each village reached at the end of the day was different. Some were perched on a hill or on a flat piece of land protected from invaders by barancos on three sides. One village still had most of its walls and old gateways. An evening stroll to see the sights created in past ages contributed to our pleasure; we were well informed by the local representative. Our accommodation ranged from a luxurious villa in a hamlet of nine people (Mario's delicious food will be long remembered,) a traditional Spanish village house and village hotels, the smallest of which had three rooms as part of a new build sponsored by the region's administration.
We enjoyed each day, no two days were similar. Beautiful scenery, very few other walkers, good Spanish wine.