Surrounding Area

Spanish Property - Renting in the Lecrin Valley

Surrounding Area

Vibrant moorish quarter

Granada

A world heritage centre with the wonderful historic Alhambra palace and Gardens. The city has many other historical sites including Monasteries, Cathedral and University and the important Plaza de Torros. The city was the capital of the Arab kingdom for 800 years and still has a vibrant moorish quarter. The city is full of every sort of shop, resturant and bars. The music themes include Parador, Classical , Flamenco, Jazz and Arabic. There are also plenty of the famous Tapas bars where free snacks are given with every drink purchased. These are wonderful lively places full of locals making this a real spanish experience. Granda is only 30 minutes away by good motorway.

Granda also has a very good Science park which is signposted on arriving in Granada.

Walking tours of the city are available for 10 euros from Plaza del Carmen (by townhall) at 10.30am daily

Prebook Alhambra Tickets (booking essential)

Mountains in the summer

Skiing

Skiing in the Sierra Nevada mountains is about one hours drive from the valley. The Prado Llano resort has about 19 lifts and 61km of Pistas. Skiing season starts in mid December and goes on to late May. There is excellent access to the resort along new roads and plenty of car parking. The resort contains a lovely central plaza with plenty of shops and resturants. You are able to hire ski and buy passes in the resort or in Granada.

The resort also offer tobogganing and rubber ring sledging.

The area is also lovely to visit in the summer, with lovely walks in the mountains in the clear cool summer air, beautiful views of the surrounding area.

The ski resort of Sol y Nieve is located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Andalucia. It is the most southerly ski resort in Europe and is small in comparison to other European resorts, even so, the resort hosted the 1996 world ski championships.

The Sierra Nevada ski resort has numerous runs of varying difficulties to satisfy all skiing desires. Natural snow is supplemented by snow cannons on some runs. Being so far south, many skiers are pleasantly surprised to find the air temperature is usually warmer than other resorts.

There is an surprisingly active nightlife in the Sierra Nevada resort. Spaniards have a reputation for being 'night owls' and this can be witnessed even in a skiing resort. are particularly busy.

The resort closes for skiing 22nd April. However it is still a lovely place to visit in the summer where plentiful walks can be taken away from the blazing heat of the spanish summer. Some ski lifts and restaurants remain open

First sign of snow in the Sierra Neveda (Oct 31st)

Coast of costa Tropical

Costa Tropical

The Costa Tropical is a wonderful pictureque coastline just 30 minutes down excellent roads from the valley.

This region is not as crowed as the other costa's and much easier to get away from the crowds. The mountains run right down to the coast, which is made up of a series of pretty coves.

The main towns are at La Herradura which is lovely and unspoilt located between two promontories of Punta de la Mona and Cerro Gordo. The whitewashed village of Salobrena is also near by with its fantastic moorish castle on the hill top, giving the area an impressive back drop, the lovely beach spreads below. There are also numerous attractions at the town of Almunecar including a friday market.

In between the towns are proctective coves and marina such at Punta de la Mona, the Marina del Este yacht habour which offers numerous watersports and scuba diving and lovely restaurants.

Beaches on this coast are great all year round, in the summer the beach bars open, sunbeds are set out and paddle boats and jetski's are available. In the winter months the beaches are enjoyed by walkers, joggers and fisherman although sunbathing is still sometimes possible on the frequent blue sky non windy days.

Sunset over the Costa Tropical

More information on Salobrena click here

For more information on La Herradura click here

For more information on Almunecar click here

The Alpujarra

About 20 minutes drive from our house is the region of The Alpujarra. This region is full of beautiful towns and white washed villages and lovely scenery.

Lanjaron

Lanjaron is one of the first towns in the Alpujarra belt and is a spa town. It has thermal baths and medicinal waters. The town also has a lively cemtre with many tourist shops and bars. A great place to visit if you want an interesting day out.

Follow the well signposted roads up the hills to the other villages, stop and shop at the tourist shops,buy some beautiful rugs and eat some tapas. Then follow the road high into the hills bleow the sierra neveda and enjoy the spectacular views and walks.

Guejar Sierra - Click here for information and accomodation in this lovely village, nestling in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

Click here to see information on the historical Cave house town of Guadix

More detailed information in our house information books.