Sierra de Francia La Alberca

The Sierra de Francia is a region of the province of Salamanca in Spain, located in the south of the province some 70 km from the provincial capital, limiting the region to the south of Las Batuecas in Northern Province Caceres, on the north by the region of Campo Charro and the east by the Sierra de Béjar. It is the largest tourist region of the province of Salamanca. Contains a number of mountain populations of great historic value, some of great landscape value, rich in folklore, handicrafts and traditional cuisine.

Its environmental wealth earned him the appointment of a large part of its territory as The Sierra de Francia-Batuecas Natural Park in 1978. Besides Park will also be just the title of "Biosphere Reserve" with the Sierra of Béjar.

Culture and traditional architecture highly conserved in the municipalities of the highlands have resulted in achieving the declared of Historic and Artistic several villages of the region: Mogarraz, Saint Martin's Castañar, Sequeros, Monleón, Miranda del Castañar and La Alberca.