Magic Autumn in the Ambroz Valley

The 29th Edition, 23 October to 29 November

Otoño Mágico is the Ambroz Valley's autumn festival, and has been held since 1998. The 2026 one is its 29th edition, with the slogan "Where the forest beats with you", and spreads activities among the valley's eight villages: Abadía, Aldeanueva del Camino, Baños de Montemayor, Casas del Monte, La Garganta, Gargantilla, Hervás and Segura de Toro. There was a curtain-raiser on 4 October, the "Saluda al Otoño" in Baños de Montemayor; the official programme runs from 23 October to 29 November, almost always at weekends, and two postponed events extend it to 13 December.

There are guided routes through chestnut groves and dehesas in the "Paisaje y paisanaje" series, walking, cycling and motorbike rides, concerts, theatre, monologues, astronomy, workshops and gastronomic days. Each activity has its own page on visitambroz.es, with the time, the meeting place and, if needed, the link to register or buy a ticket.

Ambroz Day in Hervás, Saturday 14 November

It is the big day in Hervás. From 12:00 to 20:00 there is a crafts market on the pedestrian street and the Plaza de la Corredera. From 13:00 to 15:00, in the sports hall, the women's associations of the eight villages and the Cookery and Gastronomy course of the Valle del Ambroz secondary school serve tapas of the district's recipes: migas, patatas revolconas, pig's snout, caldereta, zorongollo, pickled potatoes or fried milk, with a ham-carving demonstration. At 18:30 the parade of Don Otoño's Magic Adventure sets off, with the Forest Fairy, street theatre and fireworks, between the roundabout and the youth centre, returning to the roundabout.

On Sunday 15, the "Risas Mágicas" monologues at the Cine Teatro Juventud are already sold out.

On the 22nd, on Foot from La Garganta to Segura de Toro

Sunday 22 November is the 27th "Bosques del Ambroz" Walk, which crosses the valley from north to south. The long route, 21 km with 700 places, leaves from the Plaza del Solano in La Garganta between 8:30 and 9:00; the short one, 12 km with 250 places, leaves from the Plaza de la Corredera in Hervás at about 11:00. Both end in Segura de Toro, with a local produce market and music. Registration is compulsory, and when signing up for the long one they ask whether you need a bus to the start from your village in the valley. Segura de Toro is also the village of the Temblar Chestnut Trees.

What Is Left Until the 29th

On the 20th, presentation of the book "Fauna del Valle del Ambroz y Trasierra" in Hervás. On the 21st, theatre and music in Abadía, a baking competition in Aldeanueva del Camino, a concert by Al-Konetara Folk in Baños de Montemayor and astronomical observation in Abadía, with a reserved place. On the 27th, at the Gaia wineries in Hervás, the presentation of a CICYTEX study on the Ambroz grape varieties. On the 28th, Baños de Montemayor devotes the day to wellbeing, with yoga, the Cesteros route and a solar workshop, as well as the first motorbike route. On the 29th, the Casas del Monte mountain race and a tapas route through its bars close the programme.

Postponed to December

The 23rd Caminos del Ambroz MTB Ride, which was to take place in November, moves to Sunday 13 December, from the Hervás sports hall, from 8:30 to 15:30. The same day the guided route "Sex Appeal", also postponed, leaves from the chestnut tunnel beside the park. On Saturday 12, another Ambroz Day brings to Hervás the Jurdano Carnival of Las Hurdes, the guest territory.