For a vacation potpourri the best periods are spring and autumn: from the middle of September to the beginning of November and from March to the beginning of June one can bathe, walking, surfing, visit cities, attend language courses, or explore the country on the back of a horse. Irrigated lands characterizes Andalusia. In the agriculture olives, wine, wheat, vegetable, tropical fruits, cotton, rice, sugar cane are much more cultivated.

Andalusia was colonised 3000 years ago by the Phoenician and later by Carthaginians. In 205 B.C. it was occupied by the Romans, in 490 A.C. by Vandals and in 429 A.C. by Visigoths. From 711 to deep in 15 century it was occupied by Moorish. Today their influence is still noticed in many areas of Andalusia. From the year 1230 to 1250 Ferdinand III of Castille began to conquer the beautiful Andalusia. The year 1492 was witness of the last Granada’s Moorish king, Boabdil, who had to leave the country, putting an end to Al Andaluz.

In the Merian guide of 1977 (volume 5/30) Andalusia is called the poorhouse of Spain. Women had to go to the north of the country to work as housemaids, and men had to emigrate to other countries. Around a million of men emigrated in the last decades, and Andalusia is still the Spanish region with the highest rate of unemployment. (1)In that time, people still said that: "Andalusia is the region of Spain where nothing change." (1) however the indications of the time were at that time already set to change. "the association of a person who is happy with just a blue sky, a warm sun, a glass of wine and always friendly and ready for serving must be forgotten (1) Today the picture of Andalusia at the coast has itself totally changed, only in the interior of the region keeps some traces of the past.

Andalusien - The Mountains

The mountains of Almijara, Tejeda and Alhama rise their profile into the usually cloudless Andalusian between the provinces of Malaga and Granada. This majestic landscape, criss-crossed by hidden ravines, rushing streams and paths once travelled by muleteers and bandits, is home to ibex, wild boar and eagles.

These scarcely 41,000 hectares of large mountain is the latest Andalusian wilderness to be designated as a nature park.

The nature park is the ideal environment for walking, mountain biking, climbing, or the beautiful ascent to the Lucero summit (1,779 m) or to 2.065 m the high Maroma, the highest mountain of the province Málaga. But note: Here you can meet poisonous snakes. For those who would like to have it calmly, there are many different easy to heavy walking ways, which lead into hidden corners. Although this is a new park, there is already a considerable infrastructure for nature-loving traveller, for the region’s villages have long been popular among visitors who have enjoyed stays in converted farm houses, taken part in language courses, pottery and landscape painting or joined guided mountain walks and horse treks long before the term “ecotourism” was invented. White villages such as Frigiliana or Cómpeta are well-known destinations for those who seek a taste of authentic Andalusia and so many foreigners have become so in love of the setting that a good number of them have chosen to settle here permanently. Arround the wine-growing village of Cómpeta, one can find today some holiday houses and Fincas which are offered for letting or for purchasing. Many of them offer and ideal accommodation for individualists for vacation periods or for retired people. In this area you can rest from the daily life stress and dangle your soul.

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