Looking for a hideaway to escape from routine? Well high up in the Sierra Morena sits one of Spain´s most isolated retreats. Dubbing itself, “Spain´s most primitive hotel”, the Sierra Mountain Refuge was once an old goat shed. Now fully restored using only local, natural materials this beautiful retreat can sleep up to 15 people. [...]
We leave behind The tractor´s parade, coming in and out town, dancing, one by one , leaving behind that smell, unmistakeble, to smashed grapes. We leave behind That dog, lagging behing, partner, friend and witness of the reached farm work. We leave behind Women, with a shawl in their head, bent down, perfumed with romero and lavanda, their [...]
The harmony of the disaster, of no intervention turns a scenery into something wild, hostile, inhospitable. Beauty turns into suffering. Man´s work, from his hands, stops, slows down the chaos, the infinite. The balance from both powers, nature and human is the representation of a scienctific filosophy, from Mother Earth. The refuge is an isolated as [...]
Just half and hour from Sierra Morena Mountain Refuge we can enjoy the most famous among livestock fairs. From the first October to the seventh October every year since 1380 we celebrate this international livestock fair. when King Juan I allowed a weekly market, since then it grew bigger and bigger. Today it still is [...]
Summer has come and as it was expected lack of rain and increase of average temperature. Still this is a privileged area and if you get to know it well you will get the best from it. Just yesterday I adventured myself to discover the birth of the Ardila river, and I did find it. [...]
Water is the origin of life. Sierra de Aracena (north of Huelva, Andalucía) and Sierra de Tentudía (south of Badajoz, Extremadura) are very humid, with more average raining season than in the rest of surrounding sierras. For this reason, we can enjoy off beaten track springs, of small quantity, but extremely important for gardens as [...]
Nice thing about living in a place with so much biodiversity is that there is always something to collect from the woods. This past Sunday it was the turn for mushrooms, and in particular Gurumelos. There it goes some brushstroke to familiarize with this delicacy. Amanita ponderosa (Gurumelo) is an edible mushroom. It is believed [...]
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