page_title: Vía Verde de Ojos Negros
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Vía Verde de Ojos Negros / History
caption_attribution_description: Català: Vista de l'aqüeducte Sogorb.Español: Vista del acueducto de Segorbe.
context_page_description: The Ojos Negros Greenway, is a 160-kilometre greenway in Spain running between the village of Santa Eulalia del Campo in the province of Teruel in Aragón and the village of Algimia d'Alfara, in the province of Valencia in the Valencian Community.
  Divided into two sections, it forms part of Spain's 2,700 kilometre "Via Verde" rail trail network, which is coordinated and promoted by the Spanish Railways Foundation.
  It is currently the longest greenway in Spain.
context_section_description: Towards the end of the 19th century, the rights for the exploitation of iron deposits in the municipality of Ojos Negros in Teruel were granted to several Basque businessmen, who subsequently founded Compañía Minera de Sierra Menera on 3 September 1900. The combination of the quantity and the quality of the mineral extracted, as well as discrepancies with the management of Ferrocarril central de Aragón (which operated the main Teruel - Sagunto line, which runs parallel to the rail trail in many stretches), led the company to apply for a licence to construct a narrow-gauge railway for the transportation of the iron ore to Puerto de Sagunto, on the Mediterranean Coast.
  The 200-km long railway line was built in 1903, and at the time of its construction it was the longest private company-owned railway line in Europe.
  A need for greater transportation capacity finally led to the closure of line on 29 July 1972 and, following the closure of the ore-processing facilities in Sagunto, the Sierra Menera mining company went bankrupt in 1987.
caption: Detail of 14th-century aqueduct in Segorbe
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