![]() Northern Spain is very different to what an outsider would think of as typically Spain. ![]() Our Recommended Farm Stays in Southern Spain: Farmstays/Southern-SpainĪs the South of Spain has became so over touristic a lot of urban Spaniards started looking to the north for their rural escape and with them many curious foreigners. And all over the region you will find small sleepy villages baking in the sun, where the people, the food and the pace of life are distinctly Mediterranean. It has three historically very important cities Seville, Cordoba and Granada which still today, in their historical cores anyway, retain an old, almost medieval atmosphere.Īnd its rural areas can be spectacular, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Spain’s highest range, for example are a great place for hiking and winter sports or just above Seville the gentler ranges of the Sierra Morena too are a popular hill walking and hiking destination. The interior though is generally the opposite, with more discerning travelers heading to, or remaining, inland to get a feel for a more traditional south of Spain. The coast isn’t all hopeless though between Tarifa and Cadiz in the far south of Andalucia or some of the eastern parts of the province of Almeria, or the area around Aguilas in the province of Murcia for example seem to have happily escaped the worst excesses.Īround Cadiz too is the Parque Nacional Coto de Doñana, a semi wilderness of marshes and forests that is a breeding ground for a huge range of bird species Flamingos, herons, geese, ducks and some extremely rare and protected Imperial eagles to name but a few. ![]() So generally the coastal region is not of much interest to those in search of the best farm stays or rural retreats. Once one of Europe’s poorest and most underdeveloped regions, the provinces of Andalusia and Murcia became suddenly catapulted into the modern age with the arrival of mass tourism, which swallowed up most of its coastline in the space of about twenty years. ![]()
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