Starting point (Moro’s hill)
Arrival point The same
Distance 6 kilometres
Duration 3 hours
Difficulty Low
Contact points:
With the 3 part of the road to Ashes
With the 5 parking
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Collado del Moro – Cenizas – Collado del Moro
We can leave our car close to the Portmán Road, at the beguinning of the Llano del Beal´s road.
The walk start at the bfase of the Collado del Moro and the first thing we can across is a fence which avoids a car from entering to the path. Here we come into the GR-92, and the good conservation of the road lets us go up comfortably.
At this point, we start to see Satureja (Satureja obovata) bush from the family of the labitae, that flourishes en September and October, it is aromatic and it is used in the dressing of the olives, there are lots of it in the rocky areas of the different routes.
At the road´s first turn, we find sideritis pusilla fram the “Labitae” family which flourish from February to June.
On both sides of the path we can see Onopordum micropterum from the “Asteraceae” and cat´s, hoof (sedum sediforme) from the Crassulaceae.
Following the road, we will see the houses of Las Cenizas to our left, and, later on, we will come Los Cuartelillos to our right, which is on old military facility used for many years for the training of the soldiers that were doing the military service.
Portmán bay, full of sterile residues from the mineral wash-plant named Robert, the fishers´ harbour, today very far from the shore and “las casa baratas” close to the village Portman.
Going on our way, we will find taugled up the pines, Sarsaparrilla (Smilax aspera) from the Smilacaceae and soon after Dwarf fan palm (Chamaerops humilis) from the Plamae, serratula flavescens from the Asteraceae, estepa (Cistus albidus) from the Cistaceae and tinder rhistle (Echinops ritro) from the Asteraceae.
Eventually, we get to the summit of Mount Cenizas, 307 m high, where the battery of Cenizas located.
After the visit, we can returm along the same path, admiring the beautiful landscape of La Manga Club, minor sea and La Manga.
The “ BATERIA DE CENIZAS” misión used to be defending Cartagena from every posible naval attack by the sea Cabo Tiñoso used to be another important place wit the same defending mission. That important mission was proved om Sapanish Civil War (1.936-1.939). The battery of cannons made fire for the last time on June the 12th of 1.981. It was declared off-duty in 1.994.
The battery was installed during Primo de Rivera Spanish Dictatorship and was finished the and Sapnish Republic. It´s equipped with two Vickers cannons (mod. 1.923). Each Vickers cannon was able to fire 18 TNT kilos cannon balls; range: 35.000 meters; bore: 17,671 meters; weight: 885 kilos.
Now we´ll leave “Batería de Cenizas”. We are going to visit Negrete Cape and its interesting antiaircraft battery that has four 105 millimetres cannons. Each cannons was able to fire a cannon ball to 13.400 meters (range 13.400 meters). This antiaircraft battery was built in 1.931. It made its shoots in 1.933. It was the first antiaircraft battery in Cartagena cosat.
During the Spanish Civil War the antiaircraft battery made 293 shoots. Finally it was dismantled in 1.953 (door more information se: “Castillos y fortalezas de Cartagena”, by Aureliano Gómez Vizcaino, ed. Aforca)
We can see a beautiful landscape from the place werw cannons are: Calblanque nature reserve, Cenizas, Peña del Águila and some tune factories
English version by Alfonso Peñalver y José Mª Serna
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