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We are committed to updating our pages as regularly as possible, allocating over half of our editorial resources to this essential task, to ensure that you can always find the latest, most reliable information on popular topics and places.

Here is a list with the latest pages that have been updated or created. Most recent are at the top of the list.

Restaurants

As Salobreña expands outwards underneath the rock, new places are opening up all the time in the modern, attractive township which is being created. New and exciting Italian restaurant / pizzeria opened on the main road to the beach of Salobrena. Presenting a very wide range of daily homemade fresh italian Pastas and Pizzas. Open All Year Round.

Swimming Pool Safety

Swimming pools are a standard feature of life in southern Spain. It’s easier to find an apartment complex with a pool than without one. Most villas have their own pools and, in addition to pools, water features are common in both public and private gardens. And then there is the luxury of a jacuzzi, enjoyed by many homeowners.

Country Club La Envía Golf

La Envia is set in a gently undulating valley and surrounded by mountains which protect it from the prevailing winds. An abundance of palms and cactus and other indigenous shrubs has been planted along the periphery of each hole, making this course a true oasis in the desert-like area.

Macia Monasterio de los Basilios

Located next to the Genil river, in a quiet location, this three-star hotel features the original monastery cloister dating from 1616, which was built over a morabito (Muslim shrine or tomb) by the Marquess of Trujillo. Granada city centre and cathedral are a 10-minute walk away, while the hotel is just 300 metres from the city’s convention centre.

Food and Cooking

Food, Cooking and recipe books connected to Andalucia: Andalusia, recipes from Seville and beyond, Andaluz: A Food Journey Through Southern Spain, Cooking in Spain by Janet Mendel, Tapas a bite of Spain, The Taste of a Place, Andalucia.

Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de Anunciación

The first Mudéjar church was built on the site of an early mosque between 1512 and 1515. This original church had a single nave, which was enlarged and embellished over the following centuries. A second church was later built on the ruins left by the Moors during the uprising of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Camas

Camas is a suburban town of Seville originally built over old farmland from the Moorish era. Also famous for producing many good bullfighters due to its bullfighting school. It has about 27, 200 inhabitants.

Harmonic Resonance Therapy

Harmonic Resonance Therapy encourages our body cells' own frequency to be amplified by running a small, electromagnetic current through the palm of the hand or the ball of the foot. Its effect is an increase in energy and mental clarity.

Three star hotels in Marbella

We list some of the three star hotels in Marbella plus a link to a detailed explanation of the hotel star rating system in Andalucia.

Gardening in Andalucia

Gardening has never been so popular, especially in the UK where it dominates the airwaves and makes celebrities out of green-fingered presenters. But no-one can deny that gardens are special places. Being able to inhale the scent of flowers, watch birds from the kitchen window or merely sit outside on a sunny day, improves the quality of life beyond all measure. Whether you live in a palatial villa with sweeping lawns (and a resident gardener!) or a small apartment with a modest sized balcony, the Mediterranean climate is wonderfully conducive to creating your very own haven of colour, scent and soothing visual beauty.

Hotel Itaca

This hotel is in the former Convento Maria Auxiliadora, with its distinctive yellow and red facade - the old chapel is now the restaurant, complete with religious statue and walls in appropriately ecclesiastical purple, high vaulted ceiling, and original doorway decorations. Close to the Old City Walls and Jewish quarter, the Itaca cleverly combines the historic and the modern, with plenty of light spaces and bright colours.

Gran Teatro

The Gran Teatro (Great Theatre) was built by Pedro Sánchez y Núñez in 1923.It is a stately building of classic style, typical to the late nineteenth century with Second Empire decoration.

Bus Service

There is a bus service from Cenes de la Vega to Granada.

Paradas

Paradas is home to an important work of art; a canvas of La Magdalena painted by the artist, El Greco. It has about 6, 900 inhabitants.

Shiatsu Massage

Shiatsu Massage is an ancient Japanese pressure massage, where the practitioner uses fingers, hands, feet, elbows and knees to stretch out your body in order to release energy and create wellbeing.

Ascetic and Passionate - Semana Santa

Throughout seven days, Andalucia is surrounded by a spiritual halo. Semana Santa is a tradition which is repeated year after year; a time when the devout and curious jointogether to participare in the procession and converge on the streets and squares which take on the ambience and mystique of an open air temple.

Assets outside of Spain

If you are residente in Spain – basically, those who spend more than 183 days a year here, or whose business is based here (if in doubt, check with your asesor fiscal – tax consultant) – and you have capital and/or property outside Spain worth more than 50,000 euros, then you need to declare it to the Spanish tax authorities – as of 2013, for the año fiscal (tax year) 2012.

Cueva del Tajo de las Figuras

The cave was ‘discovered' on 17th April 1913 by Juan Cabré and Eduardo Hernández-Pacheco, they reported in detail on a large number of cave paintings, mainly representations of birds, quadrupeds and anthropomorphs.

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