Get to know us - Verdehesa

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Responsible tourism of experiences with soul to calmly enjoy the nature and culture of Extremadura.

Verdehesa offers you tourist activities and experiences in the dehesas of the National Park and Biosphere Reserve of Monfragüe (province of Cáceres). These proposals are carried out in the field of nature tourism and agrotourism, with which we also try to promote sustainable rural development and the conservation and enhancement of natural and cultural heritage. Committed and responsible tourism!

In Verdehesa you will also find tourist experiences where nature is also a resource to improve your health. The contact with biodiversity, the absence of noise, the calm, the leisurely weather and the aesthetics of the landscape that Extremadura offers us restores us and increases our positive emotions, improving our physical and psychological well-being. And we help you to achieve it!

To make you fall in love with Extremadura, Verdehesa will also take you to exceptional Historic Sites and others landmarks of the region, which we will travel through together through the guided tours to make you feel the history of the different civilizations that have inhabited them and have left their legacy in a monumental heritage.

We accompany you on your guided tour to Cáceres, Trujillo, Plasencia, or Mérida to show you, in a different way, the impressive cultural legacy that our region treasures: cave paintings and archaeological sites from prehistoric times; Roman theaters and circuses; Islamic castles, walls and cisterns; Jewish quarters full of charm to follow the Hebrew trail; cathedrals, churches and convents of powerful religious orders and majestic Christian monarchs; and palaces and stately homes, cradle of prominent feudal lords and influential nobles.

If you add to all this our recommendations for your visit to enjoy the renowned gourmet products of the Extremaduran artisans of cheese, Iberian meats, wine, oil, … which have up to 12 Designations of Origin and Protected Geographical Indications, then you will not leave without enjoying the culinary delights of the region.

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Cultural guided tours

Enjoy the art and history of Extremadura’s cultural heritage through our tours through the main historical sites and other emblematic places of the region.

Ecotourism guided tours

We take you to Extremadura’s natural paradises to fall in love with its landscapes and rich biodiversity. You will discover magical places where you will feel nature almost in its purest state.

Experiences & Agritourism

Experiential tourism activities, agrarian experience, where you will find the authentic local culture and you will be enriched with the traditional popular knowledge of life in the countryside.

Wellness Experiences

Quiet strolls in the meadow, which will encourage you to awaken your senses, connect with nature and recharge your energy and health by increasing your positive emotions.

Quality Assurance

The quality of Verdehesa’s proposals is guaranteed by its membership in different tourism product clubs:

Spanish Biosphere Reserves
Urban Birding
Extremadura Cheese Route
Iberian Dehesa de Extremadura Iberico Route

Verdehesa’s offer allows us to satisfy the needs of a wide range of clients in an integrated way and from a strategic location such as the central node of the Monfragüe-Cáceres-Trujillo-Plasencia network through different guided tours and authentic and engaging tourist experiences.

In this sense, VERDEHESA is aimed at people concerned with sustainable and healthy living and ecological initiatives. People who desire all the best that life has to offer and strive to achieve it, but in a socially and environmentally responsible way, in search of peace and happiness. For this reason, we offer our tourist services…

Individuals and groups of friends or family members looking for positive emotional states and memorable leisure experiences.
To conscious and responsible foreign visitors who demand to know the culture and nature by participating in authentic tourism initiatives that contribute to heritage conservation.
To organized groups of associations and collectives, as well as groups of travel agencies and wholesalers.
To groups of seniors looking for spaces and environments that enable and promote Active and Healthy Aging, meeting the expectations of these senior travelers.
To the single and LGTBI sector who wish to enjoy new adventures, which can occasionally lead them to find partners and new friendships.

Who we are

Our philosophy

In the design and development of all its activities and experiences, VERDEHESA, seeks:

To put into practice the sustainable and transversal dimension of tourism within the green and circular economy, as a generator of employment and wealth, and especially of agrotourism as a dynamic segment of the agricultural and livestock sectors and the production of artisanal products, which also contributes to the conservation of biodiversity.
To disseminate, enhance and, where appropriate, research and help to recover the natural, cultural and landscape heritage of Extremadura and especially the agrosilvopastoral system of the dehesa and the natural areas and villages in which it is located.
Encourage contact with nature to raise awareness of the quality of Extremadura’s environment as a resource for physical and emotional well-being for all ages.
Promote rural development acting as a catalyst for efforts to generate networking, collaboration and synergies between the agents of the Extremadura territory in an active and transformative way, promoting and inspiring citizen participation and innovation by developing activities that favor a positive transformation of the socio-economy of the community and its territory.
Promote sustainable and healthy food and food sovereignty in rural Extremadura, highlighting the value of quality food products, of the producers who make them possible and of the places destined to preserve this gastronomic heritage.
Promote the participation and give visibility to women in decision-making structures that affect the rural world (non-profit institutions, companies and local public services), as well as the promotion, impulse and effective achievement of equality between women and men in rural areas.
To contribute to public awareness of the problems of Climate Change, promoting the development of mitigation and adaptation actions to address the threat of aridity, which will affect the regions of Extremadura.

The values we work with

SINCERITY: with the customer and with the territory
HONESTY: Consistent with its ideals and principles.
ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY. Without renouncing economic profitability, VERDEHESA’s main objectives are sustainable tourism development.
DIGITAL AND Spatial: Think digitally and act spatially.
COOPERATION at different levels: company-company, company-Public Administration, and public-private projects.
TRANSVERSALITY: Intersectoral work.
PARTICIPATORY TOURISM GOVERNANCE. Promotes synergies and collaboration in the tourism ecosystem through COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE.
INNOVATION: Quality and improvement, openness to change and training.
GENDER. Recognition of the importance of the role of women.
MULTIPLIER EFFECT: With VERDEHESA’s activity, we also seek to generate new business opportunities for other professionals and agents in the territory.

A little bit of history

VERDEHESA is a Tourist Activities Company registered in the General Registry of Tourist Companies and Activities of the General Directorate of Tourism of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Regional Government of Extremadura under number OA-CC-00142. He is also registered as a Tourist Guide under number G-0007 and license number 00185-GT.

VERDEHESA is authorized to carry out professional tourism activities in the Monfragüe National Park under number. of file: SAT/PNM 16/010.

Verdehesa is the brand or trade name under which Álvaro Casanova operates as a tourism professional.

With a degree in Biology from Madrid and a postgraduate degree in Protected Natural Spaces, his professional career since 2004 has been mainly linked to non-profit institutions (Global Nature Foundation; Plasencia, Monfragüe, Trujillo and Territorial Biodiversity Consortium; Xavier de Salas Foundation, Extremadura Culture Foundation, etc.), as a technician or in coordination or management positions in charge of actions and projects of rural development, nature conservation, landscape protection, art and contemporary culture, cinema and audiovisual, development cooperation and social participation.

Since 2014 he has been working as a freelance professional collaborating with public administrations, private companies, academic institutions and NGOs, in the areas of communication, dissemination of cultural and natural heritage and tourism.

In 2016, it obtained official qualification as a Tourism Guide of the Autonomous Community of Extremaduraand that was the starting point for creating VERDEHESAhis own company to give back to the territory and its people the affection and hospitality received since he moved to Extremadura in 2004.

VERDEHESA is a commitment and a personal commitment to the sustainable and transversal dimension of tourism within the green and circular economy, as a generator of employment and wealth, and as an activity that contributes to the conservation of cultural and natural resources of universal value.