What to do in Soria

Soria is Spain's least populated province and the one that best preserves the silence of the meseta. The Río Lobos Canyon is its best-known feature: 25 km of limestone gorges with a permanent griffon vulture colony soaring above the Templar hermitage of San Bartolomé; the valley-floor path can be walked with negligible elevation change. To the north, the Urbión peaks reach 2,228 m and the Laguna Negra refuge allows an easy approach on foot to a glacial lake of dark water enclosed by vertical rock faces. The Soria–Castejón de Olvega greenway covers 24 km between cereal fields and stone villages with the Moncayo silhouette in the distance. In autumn, mushroom routes draw groups from Soria city into the pine forests of Vinuesa and Navaleno in search of porcini and saffron milk caps.