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Andalucia features massive swathes of fertile lowland, largely along river basins in Cadiz, Malaga, Sevilla, Granada and Cordoba provinces. Crops such as wheat, cotton and sunflowers are grown on the plains which stretch along near various rivers:
We talked to Cristina Vega, manager of Seville’s first, and oldest, hat shop, which has family-run since 1896, and in its current Calle Sierpes site since 1908. When a sevillano needs headgear for the Feria, a wedding, a beach trip, or to match their winter coat, Sombrerería Maquedano is where generations have headed. The shop still conserves its original décor, with wooden façade, pretty coloured tiles, a spiral staircase with metal banister, with circular hat boxes bearing the striking logo piled up to the ceiling. A simple table in front of the door, with a small mirror for customers to check their potential purchase, serves as the shop counter.
El Garrobo is one of the smallest villages in the province of Seville, occupying a transition space between the regions of Aljarafe and the Sierra Norte. It has about 800 inhabitants.
On 30 June 2005Spain became the third European country after the Netherlands and Belgium to legalise same-sex marriage between native Spanish citizens and also registered foreigners living in Spain.
Tourist Office in Carboneras is located at Calle del Mar, 15, 04140, Carboneras, Almería
La Joya is an old mining settlement named after the Arroyo de la Joya, some 70km north of Huelva, close to the Atlantic and the Portuguese border in the Comarca (area) of El Andavalo, west of the Sierra de Aracena.
Bacares has a strong mining history, and is one of the most rustic towns in the whole of the Almeria province. For keen horse riders, Bacares and its surrounding areas have some wonderful routes to explore on horseback. It has around 230 inhabitants. It is suggested that Bacares may have Phoenician or Tartesso origins, due to the richness of its mines.
There is a bus service from Pinos Puente to Granada City using the local bus company. There are various bus stops in Pinos Puente.
The Río Guadalquivir flows slowly westwards towards Seville through the fertile heart of Cordoba province, with some interesting towns situated on the river plain.
On this greenway, Minas del Plomo (Lead Mines), you can explore Linares’ mining past. The route is 11 kilometres long and runs between the town of Linares and Los Salidos de Linares mine. The route is accessible on foot, by bike and by horse. One section of the route, the part which runs from Ermita de la Virgen de Linarejos chapel to Restauración well.
The Festivals in Benizalón are Cabalgata de Reyes Magos, San Antón, Día de Andalucía, Semana Santa, Romería de la Virgen de la Cabeza, San Juan and Día de las Mozas.
This dark period in Catholicism´s history is still endlessly, if morbidly, fascinating, and it is rumoured that a museum on the Spanish church´s merciless 300-year purge of ´heretics´ is being planned in Seville.
Alicún is unique for its spectacular scenery, surrounded by orchards and terraces overflowing with luxuriant flowers and vegetation. Its Muslim past is can be seen clearly through the chimneys which rise from the rooftops, almost like oriental lanterns. It has around 200 inhabitants.
Alosno is set in the heart of El Andevalo, 43km from Huelva. The district of Alosno covers an area of approximately 200,000km2 and consists of 4792 inhabitants spread between Tharsis and Alosno. It reaches up to El Cerro del Andevalo in the north, Gibraleon and Trigueros in the south, Puebla de Guzman to the west and Calañas to the east.
An archaeological site inhabited since prehistoric times, with Iberian and Roman remains such as ceramics, sculptures, and ancient fortifications.
One of the prettiest villages in the Sierra, Alájar is overlooked by the towering Peña de Arias Montano, a dramatic rocky outcrop with a church and belfry. From the Peña is a stunning view of Alájar, its fields of olive trees and the gently undulating plain south of the Sierra.
The Tourist Office is located in the Town Hall of Ohanes, opening from Monday to Friday.
Los Remedios is an area of wide, straight avenues (strangely for Seville, with its narrow, windy streets) and large blocks of modern flats inhabited by the smarter end of society - this is the city's only purpose-built residential district.
Bédar has a strong mining past which is evident in the area of El Pinar (which has now been urbanized), from which the first cableway in the province was erected in 1888. This cableway ran to the blast furnaces of Garrucha. Bédar now has around 920 inhabitants. Although we do not know when the town was founded, the origins of Bédar date back to the Moorish period, when it was part of Vera.
