The Beech Forest in Ordesa

We are approaching Ordesa, al Beech Forest.

In one of the epicentres of the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park is this splendid forest, which in autumn takes on a multicoloured grandeur. It is also the transit point for one of the most popular routes in the entire Pyrenees mountain range.

The National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido is proclaimed as such in 1918, initially for the Valley of OrdesaIn 1982 it was extended to the other three valleys, which in addition to Ordesa, form part of the Monte Perdido Massif: Valle o Cañon de Ordesa, Valle de Ordesa and Monte Perdido. Añisclothe Gorges of Escuaín and the Valley of Pineta. Flora, fauna and geology are at their best in these valleys. This limestone massif, with its maximum altitude at Monte Perdido with its 3,348 metres, is a witness to and vestige of the geological history of the PyreneesIn its stratified richness, which erosion has made a canvas of walls, canyons, deep valleys that reveal the past.

In this scenario is the Beech Forest of Ordesa. It can be reached on a popular walk, as we have already mentioned, leaving from the Ordesa Meadow (which can be reached by car; in the summer months and at Easter we will have to take a bus from Torla(the access barrier is closed). The medium-difficulty route will allow us to contemplate the Ordesa Valley in all its splendour, we will walk through the Beech Forest and then go out into the pastures near the Soaso Circuswhere the water falls from the upper level in the famous waterfall. Horsetail.