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Best Towns to Visit in Granada Province (Not Including the Alpujarras)

Granada province stretches from the coast - Costa Tropical  to the north and borders with Spain's largest Natural Park (which is in the neighbouring province of Jaen) Parque Natural de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas. Cazorla Town and National Park Within its boundaries lie the ski slopes of Sierra Nevada and the highest peak on mainland Spain, Mulhacen. Its diverse, beautiful, wild and yet a garden of paradise where tropical fruits grow. I'm going to share with you a couple of my favourite 'best towns to visit' in Granada Province, which don't include the villages of the Alpujarras - that's another day, another post and another holiday, so huge is Granada! Picturesque Castril Almost as far north as you can get while staying in Granada province is the fabulous town of Castril.  A mountain town with an abundance of water creating a small, yet fast flowing river with tumbling waterfalls. Sometimes you're on a wooden walkway on the cliff face, at others you&#

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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