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At the end of the (19th) nineteenth-century, the exploitation of iron deposits in the town of Ojos Negros was granted to a couple of businessmen from the País Vasco who founded the Compañía Minera de Sierra Menera on September 3 (three), 1900 (Nineteen hundred year).
Due to the quantity and quality of the ore extracted, the businessmen decided to request a licence to build an economic, narrow-gauge railway to transport the iron to the port of Sagunto.

They decided to build this line due to different problems with the leaders of the Ferrocarril central de Aragón that covered the line between Sagunto and Teruel. This fact meant that, given the need for greater transport capacity, the layout of the Sierra Menera railway will be abandoned on July 29 (twenty-nine), 1972 (nineteen seventy-two) .

In 2001 (two thousand and one), the Valencian government decided to condition the old railway track for use as a greenway. Afterwards, the Aragonese government did the same in its part of the route.
The Vía Verde de Ojos Negros between Teruel and the Valencian coast is the longest Vía Verde in Spain to date. Because of its length, (160km) hundred sixty kilometers, it has been divided into two sections, the first that has two variants here in the Valencian Community and the second that runs through Aragón.
The Palancia River Valley it is the framework in which the cycling stage that passes through this territory takes place. From the highlands of Barracas, at the foot of the Sierra de Javalambre, the Vía Verde de Ojos Negros descends to the Valencian orchards on the shores of the Mediterranean in two slopes, one that reaches Castellón and another that reaches Algimia de Alfara.