Country houses accommodation at
Alpujarra - Andalucia
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Two sitting rooms
with chimney, four bedrooms, two bath-rooms, toilets, kitchen, pool and a
view-point. For 8 people.
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| Three double
bedrooms, a little
kitchen, a sitting room with chimney, and bathroom. For 6 people. |
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| One double
bedroom, a little
kitchen, a big sitting room with chimney, and bathroom. For 2/3 people. |
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Rural
house with guarantee endorsed by the Regional Government of Andalusia. |
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LA ALPUJARRA
La Alpujarra is a region belonging to the provinces of Granada and
Almería (Andalusia) placed in southern side of Sierra Nevada. Their limits go from Cape Sacratif to
Punta Entinas, on the coast, and on the north, to the heights of Sierra Nevada, the
biggest heights at Iberic Peninsula (Mulhacén 3482 m, Veleta
3398 m, Cerro Pelao 3144 m, Cerro del Caballo 3013 m) including mountainous chains of
Lújar, La Contraviesa and Gador, crossed by many streams which spill theirs water in the
three main rivers: Guadalfeo, Adra and Andarax. Everything forms a though, rocky
scenery that goes from everlasting snows of Sierra Nevada to the subtropical agriculture on the
coast.
The physical environment we have just described is
crowded by a constellation of little white villages built in their picturesque architecture,
distinguished by several peculiar features: their balconies, their flats roofs covered by
in a gray impermeable sand, their thin chimneys
ending in their slate gables.
The beauty of scenery and the villages of La
Alpujarra is not less attractive than its cultural originality: local festivities, rich
folklore, popular traditions and a wide gastronomic variety (with the famous products
such as Trevélez ham, moorish cakes,....).
Latitude, changes of height in the little distances, temperatures,
rains, agriculture, geomorphology, natural and cultural resources, help, all together, La
Alpujarra acquires its amazing originality.
NEVADA
Nevada is one of the council in La Alpujarra
(Granada) and it is composed by
four villages (Laroles, Mairena, Picena and Júbar). It spreads over 77'6
km2 and it is placed in the region subdivision called Alpujarra Alta. It
limits with Bayarcal and Alcolea in Almería at the east, and Ugíjar at the south and
Válor at the west, in Granada. Aldeire and Ferreira (in the region of
Marquesado-
Granada) limits at the north, separated by Sierra Nevada’s heights.
Rivers
Mairena and Laroles cross the council’s territory, as well as several streams
coming from the mountains. San Juan’s peak at 2781 m is the highest point and
the lowest is at 500 m over the sea. This difference of altitude allows the
presence of several ecosystems, passing in a very short
distance from "borreguiles" (ecosystems similar to the
"tundra") in the heights to the dry lands and "bad lands"
nearly desert in the south of Picena; between both of them, oaks, ilex, chestnut, pines and walnut woods, as well as cultivated lands with olives and
almonds trees, ...mixed up with fertile valleys where vegetables and all kind of
fruit trees (silk mulberry, prickly pear, apples, pears, cherries, oranges and
lemons,...) grow.
Most of
these cultivation areas are developed following the
terrace system, heritage from Muslim’s period, as well as the
irrigation systems or the urban and architectural features of this region surrounded
all the year by the snows of Sierra Nevada’s Natural-National Park
at the north and the water of Mediterranean Sea at the south.
Between
those, there are many places,
suitable to the practice of any leisure activity (trekking, mountain bike, cross-country
skiing, sleigh races, ...), or just contemplative life. We could underline the
"Puerto de la Ragua", the streams of "La Salud" and "El
Hornillo", or the places called "Piedras Blancas" or "Dondurón",
as well as the rivers banks.
HOW TO GET: The
Access.
By road:
From the north by the A-92
Sevilla-Almería-Murcia, few kilometers from
Guadix on the way to Almería, you must take a detour to La Calahorra, and there through
the mountain pass of "La Ragua" to Laroles. So, motorway until La
Calahorra, and
then 30 km of mountain road.
From Murcia and East Coast of Spain, through the A-92, taking a
detour up to Guadix in the way to Almería..
From
Almería, to the Mediterranean Motorway up to El Ejido, in
the way to Berja and Ugíjar up to Cherín and then through the A-337 (former C-330), we
arrive to Laroles.
From Málaga, through the A-92, or by the coast, and in that case
to Motril in the way to Almería up to the detour to Albuñol and Cádiar and then, on the
way to Mecina Bombarón, Válor and at last Laroles.
By Plane, you can find the nearly airports in
Almería,
Granada and Málaga.
By foot,
for the
GR-7.
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