Discover Borobia

Borobia combines striking landscapes with historic buildings, local traditions and stargazing activities. The Río Manubles rises in Borobia’s Dehesa del Tablado. The forests include holm oaks, Portuguese oaks, oaks, junipers and rockroses; broom and juniper shrubs also grow in the undergrowth. When choosing your destination, you can therefore explore a range of themes, from trails and nature watching to architecture and astronomy.

Landscape and trails around Borobia

Laguna Gandalia lies in a former mine and is recommended for birdwatching and recreation. The Sabinar de Ciria y Borobia also offers a distinctive natural setting: its wetlands are home to tree junipers, Portuguese oaks and Montpellier maples. The Río Manubles forms a gorge there with numerous caves inhabited by griffon vultures.

The routes can be distinguished by their layout and course. The GR-260 Vuelta al Moncayo, also known as the Calcenada, runs for 14 kilometres through the municipality. You can travel it on foot, by mountain bike or on horseback. The GR-86 Soriano crosses Borobia from north to south, from La Cueva de Ágreda to Ciria. The PR-95 Ruta de las Yeseras is a short local circular trail from Borobia to former gypsum works on the border with Aragón.

Buildings and local traditions

The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción was built in the 16th century in the late Gothic style, incorporating early Plateresque forms. The Ermita Ntra. Sra. de Todos los Santos is believed to date from 1200; it was apparently rebuilt in the 18th century. The Ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Santos is surrounded by the Huerta de la Virgen, a botanical garden with European trees and plants.

Remains of walls, paving and masonry survive at the Castillo Medieval de Borobia. It was a residence of the Castilian marshals Luna and Arellano. The Carnaval de los Zarrones reveals another aspect of local culture: this deeply rooted pastoral tradition is part of Borobia’s cultural and ethnographic heritage. During the parade, the Zarrones move through the town and throw straw at people who provoke them.

Stargazing and activities

The Observatorio de Borobia offers several ways to explore astronomy. You can book guided daytime and nighttime visits online. Check the latest dates and booking options before making plans. Guided daytime solar observations use two telescopes: the Coyote telescope, a 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain with a Thousand Oaks filter for observing the photosphere, and the 72 mm Icaro solar telescope for observing the chromosphere, or lower atmosphere.

El Rayo de Luna is a full-moon session that combines telescopic observation of the Moon’s surface with a poetry reading and the reading of a legend by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. Astrosenderismo por el Moncayo combines hikes in the area around Borobia with learning to identify constellations with the naked eye and finding your way at night. Groups of more than 20 people and schools can also take a 1.5-hour historical dual hike through Borobia, to Mina Gandalia and to the Huerta de la Virgen. It covers the Gandalia iron mine, with its 60-metre-deep lake; the Huerta de la Virgen, a botanical garden with European trees and plants surrounding the Ermita de la Virgen; and the history of Borobia, where Tristán de Luna y Arellano, conqueror and first governor of Florida, was born.

A product from Soria

Borobia is one of the municipalities in the province of Soria that produces Mantequilla de Soria. It is a product with a protected designation of origin and adds a local culinary dimension to the area’s natural and cultural attractions.

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