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Spending your leisure time or holidays caring for your health is becoming more and more popular nowadays. This may be a cure for a medical condition, or an escape from the stress and anxiety that is ever far from modern urban life. There is nothing better than a period of rest and quiet. Andalucian spas have been becoming popular again over the last decade and the result has been a modernisation of facilities.
This is the long straight and wide beach backed by a seafront promenade, cycle path and a quiet urban access road. This beach is never crouded due to its size. The beach offers full services including a Red Cross first aid post.
Although there is evidence of human settlements in Jete since the Neolithic period, with burial caves and evidence of abundant lithic and ceramic industries, the origin of the current settlement dates back to an era in which Muslim populations lived in the area. Geographers spoke from the eleventh and twelfth centuries of a settlement known as “Set”, “Xet” and “Yeth” - a name that means “shore” or “bank” - as a farm belonging to the Alfoz of Almuñécar.
The tourist office of a El Pinar is located in the Town Hall.
Augustín Castellón Campos or Sabicas as he was artistically known, was the first and probably the most well-known flamenco guitarist outside of Spain. He was born in Pamplona in 1913, although like many gypsy artists there is much speculation over his date of birth and some put it at 1907.
Festivals in Retamar: Cabalgata Reyes Magos, Romería a Torregarcía, Fiesta de San José, Semana Santa, Virgen del Carmen and San Juan.
As popular for its historic and cultural heritage as for its beautiful beaches, Sanlúcar experiences a huge influx of tourism all year round, especially during the summer period. To accommodate these people, there are a number of hotels in the town and on the beach, ranging from luxury, resort-style hotels with swimming pools and access to the beach, to smaller hotels with a bit more character.
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.
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.
Built as a resort town to accommodate the huge influx of tourists that descend upon the Costa Almería during the summer period, Almerimar has no shortage when it comes to hotels and accommodation. Most hotels here have swimming pools and are built in a resort style, located very close to the sandy beaches.
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 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.
In addition to the abundance of resort-style hotels, Conil de la Frontera also has many different self-catering accommodation options, including apartments and villas. The apartments are dotted all over town, some with views of the coast and the Mediterranean, and others with city views. Most have easy access to the beach and either a private or communal swimming pool - perfect for summer fun.
