Antequera – A Hidden Spanish Treasure · Costa Del Sol Malaga EU

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If you’ve been to Ronda, Alhaurin el Grande, Arcos, Frigiliana or one of the innumerable other white towns in Andalucia, and think you seen all you need to see, you are wrong.

Antequera has lots more to offer you than any of the former.


The ancient city of Antequera is in the province of Malaga, Andalucia (Andalusia), in southern Spain.


It lies at the crossroads of major highways and train links between Granada – Malaga – Seville – Cordoba and Huelva.


It is also on the main AVE high speed train link from Malaga to Madrid, and indeed, this makes the centre of Madrid within 2 hours travelling time, and thus Antequera is an ideal city break destination.


The proximity of some of the best sights and experiences in Spain are, in many cases, a relatively short distance away.


Take for example its’ many ancient and splendid churches and convents, pre-historic caves, or El Torcal (amazing antediluvian rock formations) .


Antequera, as well as being one of the best kept towns in Andalucia, is also one of Spain’s best kept secrets!


As Washington Irving was once said to have remarked – “A visit to this historical Andalucían town is a journey almost 5,000 years back through time,


beginning with the Bronze Age and the original native Iberians”.


With it’s ancient burial mounds, dolmenes, Roman baths, Moorish Fortress, Gothic churches, Renaissance fountains and baroque bell towers, Antequera is indubitably a fascinating and remarkable city.


Driving from Malaga, and the nearest international airport along the A45 autovia, your first glimpses of Antequera and ‘The Indian rock’ evoke feeings that cannot be explained. Maybe the fact that Antequera is not just another typical white Spanish medieval town begins to permeate the senses.


The towering spires of the many ancient churches and the walls and towers of the great Moorish Alcazaba dominate the town, whilst sprawling across the

valleys below are rich farmlands and olive groves watered by the Guadalhorce River.


Antequera is a step back in time, and yet it’s blend of modernity is there to be seen.


For over a 1000 years this has been one of Andalucía’s most productive areas, and a leading provider of olives, asparagus and cereal crops. In summer, its fields are abundant with yellow sunflowers


The town and ferile valley are overlooked by an enormous peak of rock, called La Peña de los Enamorados, or “The Lovers’ Leap”.


The name derives from the well known local legend about a doomed love affair between a young Christian lad from Antequera and a beautiful Moorish lass from


Archidona nearby. Legend has it that “they were pursued to the top of the cliff by Moorish soldiers, where, rather than forsake their love, for each other, they chose to fling themselves to their deaths into the chasm hundreds of metres below”. – On a lighter note, the feature is known by many of the expat locals as the ‘Indian Rock’, because of it’s resemblance to the face in profile of a North American native.


Just a few minutes out of town looms El Torcal, which as well as being a walker and climber’s paradise, offers vistas across the Guadalhorce valley and plain to the coast, where the beaches of the Costa del Sol and Mediterranean are visible to the naked eye nearly 50km away.


We return year after year. It’s fascination is endless.


We love the town, the people, the food, the life and the atmosphere, as well as the great weather.

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