Madrona Range

Sierra Madrona forms part of the rugged mountain country on the southern edge of La Mancha. Its wooded ridges and valleys contain traces of people who lived here thousands of years ago. At Peña Escrita near Fuencaliente, figures painted on rock shelters depict humans, animals and signs in a schematic style. Dating from the Copper and Bronze Ages, these paintings preserve an ancient record of life in the mountains long before the kingdoms of medieval Iberia.