1. Transhumance needs to be acknowledged as a factor when attempting to understand the functioning of any settlement or parish under study.

2. To organizers from the association of Transhumance and Nature, the goal of the day is to help preserve the ancient routes and pass on a tradition to the younger generation.

3. "Transhumance is still practiced by herds coming down from the north heading towards the fields of Castile, " cattle farmer Vanesa Sanchez said as she accompanied her cows.

4. This traditional migration to the high pastures freed by summer is called transhumance.

5. The charm of the region no doubt lies in this adherence to traditional ways of life, and the transhumance is a vital - and ever more central - part of this.

6. Every year for centuries, three to five million sheep transited through these transhumance trails, often paying tolls to cross towns and mountain passages.

7. Ed and I wandered into a cinema to see what was advertised in a leaflet as "a film about the transhumance" but it turned out to be an aural "film".

8. The company also runs trips to coincide with the spring transhumance, which takes place in the first week of June.