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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 ...

Street Carpet for Corpus Christi

Hubby and I were sat outside the lovely Hospederia de Querencia in Bujalance when a 4x4 with trailer stopped and sacks started to be unloaded at the same time as a red sand/pellet looking substance raked out onto the road we were intrigued.


After a tour of the hotel we found out exactly what was happening - a carpet for the Corpus Christi procession.


The red ´sand´ was actually dyed sawdust, the white, blue, yellow and pink, salt and the green was grass. A work of art with hours of preparation from many hands then to be trampled on by many feet.



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