The duration of the route is 1h.15min (5,6km), the difficulty is low, the type of path is track and road, and the landscape will pass through pasture areas and royal ravines. This local trail links three major heritage resources of the Ambroz Valley, on the one hand two important buildings, the Abadía Palace and the Bien Parada Convent, and on the other, the route travels about two kilometers through the Cañada Soriana Occidental, which led the transhumant herds from that Castilian province, to the pastures of the Olivenza Region, in Badajoz. Through this Livestock Route, shepherds arrived, accompanying the flocks, who sometimes stayed to live in this Valley, contributing to its repopulation. The town of Abadía has its origins in a XNUMXth century Cistercian abbey located on the banks of the Ambroz River, next to which a hamlet was grouped together that over time formed the town we know today. The abbey passed into the hands of the Dukes of Alba who ended up converting it into a pleasure palace in Renaissance style. The complex was completed by some famous gardens, in their time, called Sotofermoso.
The dukes carried out a work of patronage of letters, which attracted characters such as López de Vega or Garcilaso to this town. They were also hosts of the Catholic Monarchs and Philip II met his wife Isabel of Portugal in this place, and they supported the construction ( already in the 17th century) of the Bien Parada Convent of the Franciscan Order, which became a School of Theology.
With the confiscation of the 19th century, the friars left and the new owners used it as a stable. Today, despite its state of ruin, the cloister and the main façade allow us to imagine the magnitude of this work.