Vias Verdes – Old railway lines in Spain that has been renovated for walking and cycling viasverdes.com

In Spain, there are more than 3,400 kilometres of old disused railway lines that have been recovered as cycling and hiking itineraries within the framework of the Greenways Programme, which the Spanish Railways Foundation has been promoting since 1993.

The Greenways Programme arose as an initiative to reuse and enhance the value of disused railway heritage. A heritage of great historical and cultural value, which is being rescued from oblivion and total disappearance given the enormous potential it offers to develop new initiatives for mobility and active and sustainable leisure purposes, in accordance with the new social demands of recent decades.