The Transhumance Festival has returned to the streets of Madrid with impressive herds to goats and sheep clogging the main roads of the Spanish capital.

The festival reintroduces the age-old practice of transhumance, the tradition of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle.

This event was initiated in 1994 to help persuade the Parliament to pass the new Drovers Roads Law, recognising drovers’ roads, tracks and paths as public property and unique heritage in the world.

Hundreds of sheep and goats cross the center of Madrid for the Transhumance Festival 2022.
The Transhumance Festival returns to the streets of Madrid, a traditional event that has left unforgettable pictures over the last decades with thousands of sheep "clogging" the main roads of the capital. Since 1994, this event has vindicated the role of transhumance and extensive livestock farming as a tool for biodiversity conservation and combating climate change un Madrid on 23rd October 2022.