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| Walking from CASA ANA 2011 May 7 - 14 (BL164) price €594 including accommodation, full vegetarian board, transfers from Orgiva to Casa Ana and guided walks |
We’re back at the lovely Casa Ana for some Spring walking |
This hospitable guest house is situated in Ferreirola, a tiny, forgotten hamlet, surely one of the prettiest white villages in all of Andalucia. Walking in the countryside about is a delight, with its network of old paths, ancient irrigation systems and small scale agriculture (man and mule!). This is one of the villages of La Taha, once a thriving Moorish municipality and one of the final redoubts in the time of the last muslim king of Granada, Boabdil. During the time of the Moors it lay on the silk route that wound through the mountains from Granada to the coast, but now it lies almost forgotten, nestling on the side of the Trevelez river valley and protected by a ring of mountains. |
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The area now enjoys the highest level of environmental protection being within the National Park. The village is a haven of tranquillity: there are only about 40 residents and most of the streets, originally designed for mules are too narrow to admit cars. In the centre of the village is a large walled orchard with mature apple, pear, persimmon, walnut and olive trees. Jasmine and roses clamber over ancient garden walls. A sixteenth century church, a fuente (spring) for drinking water and the old village wash-house surround the plaza. |
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| Ferreirola’s best kept secret is its water. Hidden in the woods just outside the village is a little spring which gives naturally gaseous healing water, rich in minerals and delicious to drink on hot summer days. |
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Casa Ana is a beautifully restored, rambling 400-year-old country house, built of stone, rammed earth and solid chestnut beams, in the Moorish mountain style of centuries past. |
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What people say - An idyllic place, tucked away in a tiny village in the heart of the Alpujarras. If you want peace and quiet and breath-takingly dramatic mountain scenery, this is the place for you. We had a fantastic few days walking S.U. 2007 Fiercely beautiful, sky-scraping mountains plummet to deep gorges zigzagged by ancient mule paths; tiny, scattered Alpujarran villages – the Moors’ legacy to walkers – cling by their fingernails to the Sierra Nevada’s hillsides. Ferreirola is one such pretty cluster, with a church, fountain, tranquillity and walking trails Alastair Sawday’s Special Places to Stay, 2010 |
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