Hornachuelos Enchanted Forest

The Enchanted Forest of Cañada Verde is an incredible place where Time becomes an artist to shape Nature. Here all Nature is Art.

Natural bonsais growing on the rocks of walls and floors, ancient Miocene shelters that sculpt the glen, fossil beaches and fossil cliffs millions of years old, centuries-old dry rock walls covered with moss, tree trunks with their whimsical shapes that give shelter to birds’ nests, brambles, ivy and ferns, and many other things that the imagination of the artist that we also carry within us can discover.

All this nature makes any of our visitors can observe how the passage of time takes shape as if by enchantment and becomes the protagonist of this Enchanted Forest. The Enchanted Forest is within the Sierra de Hornachuelos Natural Park and has 3 Unesco World Heritage Sites: it is a Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site for the Dry Rock Walls in its 3 variants and a Starlight Reserve.

Now you can enjoy this unique spot with your family or your partner. 50.000 square metres of forest, free for all our guests from Monday to Thursday. With the unique European Walnut Forest, Bandoleros Cave, Tenebrous Passage, Arabian Fountain, Stone Gardens, Moss Path, Crystalline Aquifer, etc.

You can enjoy traditional games with your children in the middle of nature, and if you bring your dog he will love it.

This is a chronicle that refers to the Cueva de Bandoleros del Bosque Encantado, formerly Huerta de El Fiel.

“In the Sierra de Hornachuelas, in which there are several caves that according to the elders of the place, can still be found with names and surnames, as the cave of the “Mesa de Tomajín” (in front of the Huerta del Rey) just over a kilometer from the Villa de Hornachuelas, from which not only the village could be seen, but also a wide area of the countryside, which on clear days could reach near Ecija or near Palma del Rio, but also a wide area of the countryside, which on clear days could reach near Ecija or the vicinity of Palma del Rio, (a place from which the bandits felt safe, when there was movement of “Migueletes”), or an existing cave in the Cerro del Peco, practically inaccessible, between the house of the Molinillos and in what is today the Retortillo Reservoir, as well as the existing one in the ford called in the slang of the plain people “Pasa Algeciras” (Pasada de Algeciras) called “Cueva de José María El Tempranilla” (Cave of José María El Tempranilla), where you can even see the mangers to water the horses and in the current “Huerta de El Fiel”, (then called “Los Huertos del Fiel”) where this bandit group challenged the troops of Ferdinand VII who were unable to locate and capture the “highwaymen”, as they were commonly nicknamed.

El Tempranillo(En la literatura y la leyenda)
Antonio Ortega Serrano
Official Chronicler of Hornachuelos