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Festivals in Retamar: Cabalgata Reyes Magos, Romería a Torregarcía, Fiesta de San José, Semana Santa, Virgen del Carmen and San Juan.
What was once a small fishing village is now the most important touristic hub of the Cabo de Gata-Níjar National Park. San José is home to some of the most breathtaking scenery in Almería province and also has some of the most spectacular beaches on the Costa Almería.
El Casco Tennis Club offers a variety of ways to enjoy tennis. It has six clay and four hard courts, with membership, restaurant and accommodation facilities all available. El Casco also has four padel courts and a variety of programs that you can choose from to practice improve your game. Open to all levels and ages, the club also holds summer and holiday camps as well as catering for business and family groups.
The old centre of this tiny, ancient hilltop village, stunningly located within the Parque Natural Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche, has been declared of Cultural interest. Cortelazor itself was founded in the mid-13th century, and these days its economy is based on livestock.
Third edition of this music festival, which covers all genres from rap, pop and rock, to electronica, folk and classical. Its setting is the spectacular Plaza de España in Maria Luisa park, with the artists performing in front of the illuminated building.
The tourist office of La Tahá is located in the Town Hall of Pitres.
That same sunshine that attracts so many of us to Andalucia also drew Victoria Hislop to Granada in search of a story of love, passion and tragedy as she researched Spain’s Civil War. The Return is an historical novel set between present and past.
Festivals in Bayarque: Cabalgata de Reyes Magos, Día de San Blas, Día de San Marcos, Semana Santa, Corpus Christi, Cruces de Mayo, Fiesta de San Antón de Pádua, Fiestas de Verano and Fiestas de Nuestra Señora del Rosario.
For some people, the best way to enjoy the unspoilt beaches of Los Caños de Meca is to rent an apartment or villa in the local area and venture out from there. Self-catering accommodation here can provide you with ultimate exclusivity, away from the busy and packed hotels and resorts.
The proximity of Huétor de Santillán to Granada city does not stop visitors from enjoying the great outdoors; the town is located in the Sierra de Huétor natural park, which gives the village its name. Huétor de Santillán was originally a Moorish town, and its narrow streets haven't changed much since then. In the village centre you'll find its grandest monument: la Iglesia parroquial de la Encarnación.
The original path was built between 1901 and 1905 by the Sociedad Hydroelectrica del Chorro (Chorro Hydroelectric Society). A pioneering project to take advantage of the 100m drop in the river Guadalhorce required the construction of a small dam.
The residential property market in the Marbella area is undergoing a fundamental evolution that began with an unprecedented boom of sales activity just after the pandemic. The bar has been raised across all aspects of our real estate industry and service & hospitality sectors to unseen levels, and it’s staying there.
The tourist office of Almegíjar is located in calle Pretiles.
The origins of bullfighting are probably in the man v beast contests of the Roman gladiators. Even earlier, Palaeolithic paintings found in Spain depict men fighting bulls and other wild animals. In Greek legend, you have Theseus and the Minotaur, a half-man half-bull, while a Babylonian legend has its hero slaying a bull by thrusting his sword "between nape and horns". But there are also strong links with the popular Moorish pastime of rejoneando, where a rider would confront the bull using a (lance) in an arena (picadores in modern-day Spanish bullfighting). Portugal holds rejoneo bullfights where cavaleiros, who wear 18th-century dress and ride padded horses, are the stars, rather than the matadors, as in Spain. In Portuguese bullfights, the bull is not killed in the ring.
Chalcolithic (early Copper Age) This is the period with the earliest phase of metallurgy. Copper, silver and gold started to be worked. It is also a period of increased social complexity, rise of the first civilizations and of exchange networks that would reach to the Baltic for amber and North Africa for ivory and ostrich-egg products.
Set in beautiful Andalucian countryside, this historic town is rich in fertile land making it Andalucia's top producers of a number of foods like asparagus, cereals and olives. A stay here offers countryside walks, excursions to world famous historical monuments, namely the Dolmens of Antequera and La Peña de los Enamorados (lover's leap) which can be seen shadowing the town.
Lobras is a small village with its distinctive own personality. It feels as if time has stood still when you walk along its streets and visit its monuments. The location also means that visitors can enjoy tranquil landscapes and amazing natural beauty.
Like other forms of accommodation in Lanjarón, and generally the Granada province, apartment rentals are generally reasonably priced and set in a beautiful surrounding. None of the featured apartments are located right in the centre of the village, however most are less than a km and so just require a short walk to the heart of Lanjarón.
The Phoenicians were a Semitic people who called themselves the ‘Canaan’ and lived in city-states on the coastal strip of what is today Lebanon. The Greeks called these people ‘Phoenician’ which is Greek for the Tyrian purple dye from the Murex mollusc that the Phoenicians traded. Tyre was their main territory but it would be difficult to call Tyre the capital of Phoenicia in the modern sense as all Phoenician city-states had their own kings or rulers — rather like the city-states in Greece.
Atlanterra, in Cadiz province, is an exclusive urbanisation situated 30km north of Tarifa (and within the municipal boundry) but access is by the only road leading south from the small fishing village of Zahara de los Atunes, which is 10km south of Barbate separated by military land and the salt marshes.
