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Monday Morning Photo - Wisteria Time in Andalucia

How quickly spring comes around after the short winter here in the Sierra Sur de Jaén. After lots of very much needed rain we´re back to the normal cloudless blue.  My garden is shooting incredbily with the moisture and now sunshine. And my beautiful wisteria flowers grandly albeit it short-lived. The big black carpenter bees love it. Each flowering season reminds me of the Botanical Gardens in Malaga and the ´tunnel´ of wisteria that I haven´t yet caught in bloom. April is a good time to plan to go if it´s on your list.  Here´s the botanical garden link La Concepción Botanical Gardens. And a sneaky peak at the wisteria. See the Monday Morning Photos list.
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The Black Bulls - National Monuments

Three of the twenty Osborne bulls in Andalucia have been added to the
Catálogo General del Patrimonio Histórico as monuments along with some land around them. They are in Benahadux in Almería, Córdoba and Santa Elena in Jaén.

The black bulls were installed by Osborne between 1958 and the late 1970s throughout Spain and they have now been recognised as a symbol of Andalusian culture.

The bulls were part of a series of publicity designs by Manuel Prieto Benítez and adapted by José y Félix Tejada Prieto from El Puerto de Santa María in Cádiz. Locations with especially good visibility from the countryside and roads were chosen for their locations.

The other seventeen bulls, most of which stand 13,13 metres tall, are in the process of being registered.

Want to see an Osborne Bull?

Here they are.

Cadiz
El Puerto de Santa María - Sierra San Cristóbal & Buenavista
Jerez de la Frontera
Peospardas
Vejer de la Frontera
Tablada
Tarifa
Malaga
Casabermeja
Fuengirola
Vélez-Málaga
Granada
Güejar-Sierra
Albolote
Seville
Las Cabezas de San Juan
La Campana
Lora de Estepa
El Castillo de las Guardas
Castilleja del Campo



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