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Best places in Andalucia?
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Piwin
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 RE: Best places in Andalucia? (in reply to tele)
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Lavaderos de la Reina, Sierra Nevada, in late Spring. The lavaderos are located in a cirque directly below several of the 3,000m+ peaks of Sierra Nevada. Go at the right time of year, and the melting ice gives way to several torrents of fresh water. It's a beautiful spot. The hike up there is also not too shabby. As the story goes, the place bears that name after Queen Fabiola of Belgium said: "Si una reina viniese a lavar aquí, ganaría en nobleza."
In Cabo de Gata, there's a tiny beach nestled between the cliffs just east of the lighthouse (technically it might be north...anyways, if you're looking at the sea, it's left of the lighthouse!)One of my favorite spots. Unfortunately you have to drive through large spans of nothing to get there so a trip to cabo de gata is a mixed bag really.
Cahorros de Monachil, near Granada Capital, and, I can't stress this enough OFF-SEASON AND NOT ON THE WEEK-END!  (it's a rather popular spot...).
Anywhere in Las Alpujarras is worth the visit.
In the Sierra de Huetor, there are several remains of fortified positions dating back to the civil war. Trincheras del Maullo and trincheras de los atajuelos are the two main ones. They're not necessarily impressive or anything, but t's worth seeing, if only just to imagine what it must have been like.
Ubeda y Baeza for the architecture. Small and welcoming.
If you go back to Ronda, there's the caminito del rey not too far. It's lost most of its original appeal now that it's safe but it's still pretty damn impressive.
Anyways, I guess my priorities are pretty clear with that list. No big cities, a bunch of stuff in nature and no flamenco. (but really most of those stuff you could do from Granada so I guess that's the city I'm recommending...)
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Date Jan. 20 2018 12:33:13
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El Burdo
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RE: Best places in Andalucia? (in reply to tele)
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Re-read my old student/traveller era copy of For Whom The Bell Tolls after 40 years following the references made here. The events are actually located North of Madrid and not in Andalucia but it gives a telling picture of social culture and struggle in general. A really compelling read so thanks for the nudge.
Being a serialist, I found my equally old copy of As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee. As a young man, he leaves rural Wlltshire in England in the months before the Civil War and walks through England, then from Vigo to, so far Seville. He has made no direct reference to flamenco (yet) but the tableaux he describes fleetingly can only be flamenco, certainly the dances. That was a surprising pleasure - he simply described people spontaneously expressing a deep ingrained culture without naming what we all 'know' as flamenco.
So, of course I have bought Homage To Catalonia to continue my journey into the struggles of the Spanish past. What I now want to do is travel through all Spain, slowly. I did it once in the 70s, quickly on roads and on trains. The descriptions in the books have prompted me to look up places on Google maps - there is so much in Spain to see. Such a strong identity still there in silent opposition to the internationally ubiquitous branches of MacDonalds and Santander. Lee's description of the lunchtime bar culture in Madrid almost made me buy a plane ticket there and then. So, once you've found the best places in Andalucia, I'd go into central Spain. There must be something there, too.
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