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The autonomous region of Andalusia (Andalucía in Spanish) is in the southern part of Spain. It spans from Atlantic coast in the west to the sheltered coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the east and from Málaga's Costa del Sol to the borders of Castilla – La Mancha the famous flat lands and Don Quixote windmill country.  With an average of 300 plus days of sunshine a year the coastal area is an all year round destination. Not so in the inland provinces of Cordoba, Jaen and Sevilla which ha ve baking hot summers that can reach +40c and cold winters which can be 0c or less overnight. The Mezquita, Córdoba Andalusia is divided into eight provinces, each with a provincial city of the same name. Some of them are far more famous than others: Almería , Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Sevilla. The three land-locked provinces are Córdoba, Jaé n and Sevilla, the rest are coastal. Each province and city is full of culture, history, traditions, fabulous monuments and cre...

Another Black Bull for my Collection

Another Black Bull spotted and photographed. I really don´t know the why the compulsion to get the camera out but there is just some draw to those massive guys that make me yell "ssstop".

Unless I´m driving of course, then it´s "What are you doing?" from any other occupants. Yep I´m a pain, best to escape on my own really.

Black Bull, Almayate to Torre del Mar
Black Bull between Almayate and Torre del Mar


Did you know there are twenty Black Bulls in Andalucia? And that three of them have become national monuments? The other seventeen are in the process of being registered.

The 13,13 metres tall signs were put up between 1958 and the late 70s, when the government banned advertising on national roads in the 1990s they were to be taken down. So but for the huge national protest they would no longer adorn our roadsides. And I would be not the wiser and have less things to spot and snap.


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