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Málaga
In the Historical District of Málaga urbanism and architecture from different centuries mingle, as is to be expected in a living and constantly evolving city. What may most attract the visitor’s attention, however, along with the assortment of churches, convents and palaces preferably from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, is the urban and architectural legacy from the nineteenth century, when due its strong agrarian and industrial...
Fuente De Piedra
Laguna de la Fuente de Piedra (Fuente de Piedra Lagoon) Natural Reserve is found in the northern part of the province of Málaga, next to the town bearing the same name. It is the largest lagoon in Andalusia, covering an area of 1,354 hectares, and is considered to be one of the most extensive and characteristic endorheic complexes in Spain.
This lagoon is a protected area of the first order among the wetland areas of the Western Mediterranean...
Antequera
The El Torcal Natural Area, the most impressive karstic landscape in Europe, is located in the centre of the province just 12 kilometres from Antequera. Its fantasy-like rock formations cover an area of 12 square kilometres.This impressive limestone complex was thrust upward from the bed of the sea about 150 million years ago as the result of a geological folding. The softness of the exposed rocks and the horizontal lay of some of the...
Antequera
Situated to the south-east of the town of Antequera - quite near the town centre - Pinar del Hacho (El Hacho Pine Grove) Suburban Park covers an area of 85 hectares of protected land, populated for the most part by a forest of replanted stone pine of about 40 years of age.
This suburban park has been used by the residents of Antequera as an area of relaxation for many years, even before the lands passedfrom private hands into the hands of the...
Humilladero Y Alameda
Laguna de la Ratosa (La Ratosa Lagoon) Natural Reserve is situated between the municipal districts of Alameda and Humilladero - in the western end of the province of Málaga, near the border with the province of Seville. This lagoon - declared a Natural Reserve in 1999 - covers an area of 24 hectares.
It is found at the lowest elevation of any endorheic basin and originates from a natural aquifer outflow. Precipitation levels control the water...
Cuevas de San Marcos
In the northern part of the province of Málaga - in the district of Cuevas de San Marcos - La Falla de la Sierra del Camorro (Sierra del Camorro Fault) can be found. It covers 1,086,057 square metres and was declared a Natural Monument in 1999.
The Camorro massif, whose highest peak is Cuevas Altas (907 metres above sea level), is formed of nodular limestone and limestone-marl rock dating from the Lower and Middle Jurassic. Time and the...
Archidona
Sierra de Gracia Suburban Park is located in the town of Archidona and is one of the most characteristic features of the scenery in the northern part of the province of Málaga.
Covering an area of 35.3 hectares, this suburban park has an uneven topography due to its situation on a mountainous side-slope. Apart from its natural importance it holds an even greater - if possible - cultural significance since this mountain range harbours remains...
Ronda
Dehesa del Mercadillo (The Market Pasture) Suburban Park is found right in the city of Ronda itself, on the mountain of the same name and beside the neighbourhood of La Dehesa. Declared a protected natural space in the year 2000, the park covers a total of 137.77 hectares. It takes its name from a livestock market that was once held here - an ideal location given its proximity to the city centre and the fact that several livestock trails come...
Cortes De La Frontera
Cañón de Buitreras (Buitreras Canyon) Natural Monument is a spectacular, narrow gorge more than 100 metres deep. It represents an impressive fluviokarstic formation which has beencarved out by the erosive action of the Guadiaro River as it passes over the calcareous and limestone-marl rocks found between the Sierra de Grazalema and the Sierra de Ronda. This natural monument, which covers an area of 218,766 square metres, runs through the...
Parauta
Making the trip to El Pinsapo de La Escalereta (La Escalereta Spanish Fir) - the oldest living fir in Sierra de las Nieves Natural Park - not only means entering a world full of beauty and age-old wonder, but also gives you the opportunity to behold with wondering eyes one of the largest known specimens of this conifer species, Abies pinsapo.
El Pinsapo de La Escalereta is a wise, old tree which should be respected, for certainly if we were...
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