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Dearmers has been closed since end of season 2019. Dreamers which had reopened quietly on the 28th June 2018 was always known to many regulars to Marbella as the large nightclub oposite Puerto Banus even though the venue has had many reincarnations over the last few years. We are Back!
I travel for the sake of travelling, to escape from myself and others. I travel to make a dream come true, quite simply, or to change skin if you like.' In May 1840, Théophile Gautier, the enfant terrible of the French Romantic movement, set off by coach from Paris for a journey to Spain. Hired by the journal La Presse to send back regular installments of travelogue.
This archaological site is located 20 kms north west of Almeria, between the villages of Gador and Santa Fe de Mondujar. The site dates back to 1800 BC, when it was probably the location of Spain's first metalworking culture. Pottery and jewellery were made here and crops grown in what must have then been a much more fertile landscape.
Santa Maria Golf & Country Club, as the name suggests, is far more than a golf club. Based around an 18th century “cortijo” which is currently the clubhouse, the grounds boast stunning gardens and fine leisure facilities including tennis and lawn bowling.
Benitagla was founded by the descendants of the Berber Tribes that settled in the Sierra de los Filabres between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the Nasrid period. The earliest data of Benitagla stretches back to July 1488. On June 23, 1492, the Catholic Monarchs give the towns of Albox, Arboleas, Albanchez and Benitagla to Don Pedro Manrique de Lara, Duke of Nájera.
Cordoban painter Julio Romero de Torres is much loved in his home town, and around Spain - his works, which you`ll see on posters everywhere, have adorned postage stamps and bank notes, and inspired songs and films.
Rioja is particularly special in October, when the residents flood the streets to celebrate the festival of their patron saint, the Virgen del Rosario. It has about 1,450 inhabitants. The geographical situation of the town in the Andarax River Valley, a topography of easily defendable mounds between the river and the Sierra Alhamilla.
Linares de la Sierra may only have 300 inhabitants, but it has a restaurant cited in the New York Times, The Times of London and the Michelin Spain and Portugal Guide. Oscar-winning film director Pedro Almodóvar and celebrity chef José Pizarro are known to love the signature tomato and fig soup from Meson Arrieros.
The Interpretive Centre explores the connection between Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America and the province of Granada.
Algámitas is home to the large rock known as, El Peñón, which sits opposite to the highest point of Seville, Pico del Terril, and Sierra de Tablone. It has about 1, 200 inhabitants.
Jaen boasts Spain's largest protected area, the immense wilderness of Cazorla Natural Park, with its grey, rocky peaks towering over thick forests of pine trees and babbling mountain streams, including the source of the great Guadalquivir river. The well-preserved Mediterranean woodland of the Sierra de Andújar Natural Park and the Despeñaperros Natural Park provides some of the few remaining refuges of the highly endangered pardel lynx and the rarely sighted wolf. Medieval hilltop castles are in abundance in the Sierra Mágina Natural Park and make ideal vantage points to view the Sierra's peaks, which are snow covered in winter.
The Tourist Office is located in the Town Hall of Paterna del Río, opening from Monday to Friday.
Málaga Airport has three main terminals plus a General Aviation Terminal for private planes - located south of the airport - and the Cargo Terminal to the north.
Olula de Castro is a small and tranquil village found 54km from Almería city, at an altitude of more than 1000m. The town is a perfect destination for those who wish to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life, and has about 190 inhabitants.
The name Carboneros refers to the town’s former mining activity, which dates back to the times of the Carthaginian General Aníbal. The village is one of a small group of ‘new towns of the Sierra Morena’ founded by King Carlos III in the second half of the eighteenth century.
As with all the villages in the Sened region, the church was built on the site of an old mosque that was preserved until 1500
Casa Number 21 is a three-storey villa built in 1885, that was carefully restored in 2013 to show how a British family would have lived in late-Victorian Andalucia, complete with furniture, toys, jars of food and other domestic accoutrements. Its owner was a middle-ranking engineer, and his children, who lived there, helped advise on its decoration for the period restoration.
Andalucia enjoys 14 bank holidays a year. This comprises 9 National holidays, 2 whose date is set by the region, 1 regional holidays and 2 local municipal holidays. Below we list the bank holidays for this and next year.
The festivals in Tabernas are Cabalgata de Reyes Magos, San Sebastián, Día de Andalucía, Semana Santa, Fiestas de San Marcos, Romería de San Isidro, Fiestas de San Juan and Feria de Tabernas en Honor a la Virgen de las Angustias.
