FIRST "SIERRA DE GUADARRAMA NATIONAL PARK" DAYS

FIRST PHOTO CONTEST "SIERRA DE GUADARRAMA"

SIERRA DE GUADARRAMA NATIONAL PARK, 100 YEARS OF HISTORY

Sierra de Guadarrama landscape, from La Granja de San Ildefonso Palace, 1872

The Autonomous Body of National Parks, organizes this exhitition with historical character about Sierra de Guadarrama National Park.

This exhibition pretends to bring the new National Park to visitors, making a walk through the landscapes of the park, the ethnography, traditional jobs and costumes of the area, turism, sports, arquitecture, industry, communications, culture, history and biography of people related to the mountain.

Pictures illustrates different aspects of the Park. Some of them have been selected by their didactical, aesthetical and informative character and show interesting aspects of Sierra de Guadarrama territory, even if they have been kept out of the limits of the Park.

This exhibition also represents a recognition to the previous generations who have been able to leave a precious cultural and educational patrimony and have left examples of sustainable integration of traditional activities in the environment, establishing what we have to protect for future.

Military exercises in Boca del Asno, Valsain, 1906

Navacerrada test circuit layout. Navacerrada Port, 1903

Girls dancing in La Peñote campsite, Cercedilla, 1942

Buses and hikers in Boca del Asno, Valsaín, 1933

Expeditionary in La Pedriza, Manzanares el Real, 1900

Hiker in La Pedriza, 1904

Cars competition in Navacerrada, Cercedilla 1904

Pine trees lowering from the mountain, 1915

Carpenter family, San Rafael, 1912

Trekking to Siete Picos, Sierra de Guadarrama, 1890

Skiers in Navacerrada Port, Cercedilla,1925

SIERRA DE GUADARRAMA STUDENTS PRESENTATION

IES SIERRA DE GUADARRAMA

This is our high school:

       IES Sierra de Guadarrama.    

WHERE IT IS LOCATED?

•Our high school is in Soto del Real.

•We see in this map a red point: it is the high school.

•Soto del Real is a village that is in the mountain.

•It is 50 kms from Madrid and it’s close to the Regional Park of Manzanares Basin.

•There is too much forest and animals.

•It’s very cold in winter,but in summer it is very good because it is not too hot cause we are close to the mountains.

ENTRANCE

•This is the entrance of our high school:

  THE LIBRARY

COMPUTER ROOM

CAFETERIA

PLAYGROUND

•This is where we study and live if you want to know …We wait you.