Post-Congress Excursions
Day Trips:
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Sierra de Guadarrama National Park – La Herrería forest - El Escorial.
Sabana-like holm oak woodlands and Scots pine forests in the southern slope of the Sierra de Guadarrama.
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Sierra de Guadarrama National Park - La Granja - Segovia.
Contrasting northern vs. southern slopes in the Central System encompassing different landscapes with holm and deciduous oaks, pinewoods, and summit scrubs.
Four-five day excursions:
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Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas Natural Park - Jaén.
One of the largest European protected areas, both a refuge during the quaternary ice ages and a center of speciation for a rich calcareous flora located in Andalusia
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Sierra Nevada National Park - Granada.
The Baetic mountain range highlighted as the most diverse hot-spot within the western Mediterranean basin, with a remarkable rate of regional and local endemisms.
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Sierra de las Nieves National Park – Los Alcornocales Natural Park – Cádiz.
Home of the ‘pinsapo’ fir and relics of tertiary flora preserved between mountains with one of the highest raiIberianfall in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Sierra de Albarracín – La Albufera Natural Park – Valencia.
A journey through mountains and plateaus with the greatest peninsular gymnosperms diversity to reach the Mediterranean coast and the semi-arid Iberia.
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Sierra de Guara Natural Park - Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park – Huesca.
A transect through the Pre-Pyrenees and the central Pyrenees that allows exploring the diversity of plant species and communities at the Mediterranean and temperate climate boundary.
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Irati beech forest – Larra karst nature reserve – Pamplona.
The humid western calcareous Pyrenees are home to some of the best coniferous and deciduous forests on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Picos de Europa National Park – Redes Natural Park – León.
Deciduous forests and a great diversity of scrub on limestone substrates alternate in mosaic with agropastoral landscapes in humid-climate Iberian Peninsula.
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Montseny Natural Park – Cadí-Moixeró Natural Park – Barcelona.
A variety of elevational vegetation belts house broad-leaved and coniferous forests in the Catalan mountains, assembled by an outstanding floristic diversity.
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Serra de Tramuntana – s’Albufera Natural Park – Palma de Mallorca.
The protected areas of the Majorca Island (Balearic archipelago) concentrate a large number of endemic species in a range of altitudinal belts
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Serra da Estrela National Park – Arrábida Natural Park – Lisbon.
Journey through the west of the Iberian Central System to reach the wet mountains of the Portuguese Atlantic coast.
One week excursions:
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Teide National Park – Garajonay National Park – Tenerife and La Gomera islands.
The best-preserved laurel forests and mountain thickets of the Canary Islands with a plethora of Macaronesian endemics and relict taxa.
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Tamadaba Natural Park – Timanfaya National Park – Gran Canaria and Lanzarote islands.
Canary Islands pine forests, laurisilva remnants and xeric scrublands on spectacular volcanic landscapes.