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Ruta Bancos Gigantes or Huge Bench Route in Andalucia

A new rage is slowly spreading across Andalucia with its beginnings in the province of Malaga and that is huge benches are being installed in beauty spots across the region. The Huge Bench Route or  Ruta Bancos Gigantes #rutabancosgigantes can be found on Instagram  where they are more active with updates on the new installations of these enormous benches and they have a   Facebook  page too. Map of the Ruta Bancos Gigantes The initiative started by Forest Green an agrobroker company that supplies and works with treated wood to large construction and environmental companies in Spain. The huge bench route is steadily growing, with constant new installations spreading across Andalucia. The enormous handmade wooden benches are 4 metre long and 2.3 metre high, with the seat being 1.3 metres above ground and needing steps to get onto them, appearing in natural beauty spots hopes to encourage people out into and  enjoy the views and of course take photos to be ...

Costa Tropical the Granada Coast, La Herradura



Having just been reminiscing through many files of photos, I thought I´d share some of my favourites from La Herradura where my eldest works with Stephen Hill, making guitars (and a ukelele).

Some of these photos are his from his guitar making course and then later while working with Stephen and some are mine.

It´s a glorious spot, not touristy at all when compared to Nerja on one side or Salobreña and Almuñecar on the other. Enjoy.





If anyone would like to know more about handmade Spanish guitars search for Stehphen Hill's website, who also takes orders for apprentice built guitars - that´s my boy!

Benjamin Webb (my son) makes flamenca blanca, flamenca negra and classical guitars in his own workshop attached to our holiday rental home Casa Rural El Reguelo near Martos, Jaen.

Handbuilt Spanish Flamenca Blanca Guitar For Sale


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