Gascueña de Bornova Travel Guide

Between Gascuena de Bornova and Pradena de Atienza, to two kilometres and a half of the first one, one finds a path put up signs with the letters A R of blue painting, of which it splits the way towards the top, after three hours of way it comes near up to the hermitage that crowns the mountain.
Hermitage of the High Saint King of the Majesty, the legend attributes his construction to the Templars, it was reconstructed in the year 1785, it is of coarse masonry with vault of half a cannon, more advisable is the impressive panoramic view that it includes from Sierra de Guadarrama to the Sistema Iberico.
In the southern part one finds Alcorlo's reservoir where retame the water of the river Bornova, to east Atienza's castle is spied haughty, in the northern part the "Sierra de la Pela", and westwardly the "Macizo de Ayllon" and the " Pico del Ocejon".

The only way of acceding to these villages is by means of car, the distance are approximately 132 Kms from Madrid or 82 Kms from Guadalajara city.

It is important to have the deposit full of petrol, the gas station nearby it is not less than fifty kilometres