Nestares - Sierra Cameros | Turismo en La Rioja, Camero Nuevo | Pueblos y Paisajes

Sierra Cameros | Turismo en La Rioja, Camero Nuevo | Pueblos y Paisajes

En uno de sus valles recorrido por el río Iregua, está el Camero Nuevo, tierra de bosques, pastizales, cumbres y pequeños valles, donde se sitúan 13 pueblos con historia, tradiciones y leyendas, que siglos atrás se agruparon bajo la denominación de Hermandad de las 13 Villas.

Nestares

Nestares stands out in the lowest part of the slopes of Serradero, at the end of the Sierra de Moncalvillo, and is the first town showing Camerano architectural features. In their houses, stone, adobe and wood are mixed.

“En la puerta de Cameros
Levantó Dios un altar,
Y en él colocó a su madre,
La virgen del Manojar”.

(At the door of Cameros
raised God an altar,
and in it he placed his mother,
The Virgin of the Manojar)

The father of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, was born here and later migrated to the lands of Huelva (Spain). The remains of his grandparents rest in the cemetery of Nestares.

Nestares had 93 inhabitants in 2017.

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1 · Church of Saint Martin

Church devoted to this charitable Saint, so common in all the Sierra de Cameros

2 · School-Museum

The School-Museum of Nestares was opened in 2012, coinciding with the commemoration of the centenary

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3 · Chapel of Saint Bartholomew

One hour away up to the Serradero, on the way to Castroviejo, we find this chapel that could have been Romanesque

4 · Chasms of the Maño and the Maestro

Within the jurisdiction of Nestares, we find the caves-chasms of the Maño and the Maestro, where there was settlement at the end of the Neolithic

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5 · Chapel of the Virgin of Manojar

Located on a hill above the village, it is a single-storey building, with three sections and dome in the front

6 · The Oak tree

In Nestares we can find a spectacular oak tree specimen, that has been estimated to be 700 years old

El Serrano (The Highland)

Although Puerta de Cameros is Viguera, the first village of Highland typology is Nestares, located on a sunny slope and far from the humidity of the Iregua Rive

Mushrooms

The mushroom tradition has been very important in Cameros Nuevo (New Cameros). Nowadays, many municipalities regulate its collection

Villages and Landscapes of the Camero Nuevo. La Rioja