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The Bib Gourmand recognition is given to the best value-for-money restaurants – offering a three-course meal at a reasonable price.
Weather for the next few days in Calicasas
Cordoba on the NIV motorway following signs for Sevilla. The road climbs out of the plains of the River Guadalquivir. After 15km take the right fork N331 for Antequera. This road is one of the last remaining major routes in Andalucia which is not yet dual carriageway. Take your time and don't be impatient to overtake!
Seville is a city rich with convents and monasteries. Groups of nuns scuttle down the streets going around their daily business and school girls, dressed in smart plaid skirts and shirts walk in single file throughout the city. Although there is restricted entry to many of the convents, most are inhabited by closed religious orders.
This is a unique stretch of near-virgin coastline in Malaga, which runs for 12km east of Nerja to La Herradura in Granada province and covers an area of 1,815ha, including a protected part offshore. Its dramatic rocky steep cliffs (acantilados) plunge down to the sea, leaving a few sheltered bays with beaches inbetween, which can be accessed via staircases or tracks.
Torre de Perdigones is a 45-metre-tall square brick tower near the Puente de la Barqueta with a dual purpose for visitors: as part of the Macarena district’s industrial heritage, and also sd a camara oscura (and viewing point) providing superb vistas of Seville.
Extreme sports are defined as activities which involve a high level of danger, and therefore often both speed and height; they're also "counter-cultural", and often (though not always) practised by young people. They are frequently climate-dictated, being dependent on snow or ice, wind and water. And, of course, they're a great way of keeping in shape.
The Tourist Office of Almedinilla is located in Carretera A339, Km.37.
Torremolinos: where the Costa del Sol tourism boom really exploded. Just a couple of miles to the west of Malaga airport, and with one of the coast’s better urban beaches, it isn’t hard to see why. If the town’s party-hearty reputation has relaxed a little in recent years, giving way to many family holidaymakers in the summer and older visitors looking for some winter sun out of season.
This is a bright modern gym, with weights and plenty of cardiovascular machines as well as a selection of classes, including aerobics and step. The atmosphere is friendly and the big windows (open in the warmer months) look onto superb views down onto the bay of Marbella or over at the mountains behind.
A symbol of British power in late 19th-century Huelva, the Casa Colón is the grandest of all the buildings constructed by the city's bourgeoisie around the same time. It is an imposing presence at the beginning of the Alameda Sundheim, with a terracotta façade and ornate wrought-iron balconies.
Castellar offers a beautiful and rich historical and artistic heritage, as well as being a favourite spot for the practice of rural and sports activities such as small game hunting in the Sierra del Oro. It has about 3,300 inhabitants.
There is a bus service from Dehesas de Guadix to Granada City using the local bus company, BAM.
Jerez de la Frontera train station is located in Plaza de la Estacaion Ferrocarril s/n located about 500m east of the historic town center. It is served by Alvia Long Distance trains to Madrid, Medium Distance to Cadiz, Sevilla and Corodba with some continuing to Jaén, and Cercanias (local) to San Fernando and Cadiz.
A grave in the main Huelva cemetery holds the body of a man who changed the course of the Second World War. The strange thing is, his identity is still debated.
As with any popular holiday destination, transport in and out of Marbella is abundant, and easy. On this page you will find links to our transport information pages specific to Marbella, and information on the best ways to see Marbella, and its surrounding areas.
The church has a rectangular floor plan and features a gentle staircase adjoining the presbytery, which can be accessed via a large triumphal arch.
Juan Talega was a singer whose roots were in Alcalá de Guadaira, but he spent his life in Dos Hermanas, a small town just outside of Seville. His rough, no frills, gypsy voice is one of the darkest and most haunting voices in the history of this ancient art.
The town’s origins date back to the construction of a bridge over the Genil River, a project designed by Hernan Ruiz and funded by Don Gonzalo Yañez Dovinal, Lord of Aguilar. The town, which appeared for strategic and commercial reasons and to defend and monitor an important pass running from the countryside to the south into Muslim occupied territory, faced all of the problems typically associated with a location close to the border.
