| The privileged situation of the property, let you to look over the main villages of Sierra del Segura, with a high festive and cultural interest. At no more than 40 minutes, through good roads you can visit villages like: | |||
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| HELLÍN (THE DRUM TOWN) at only 22,1 km. from the property | |||
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Dont lose in Holy Week, the "tamborrada"(drums feast) more multitudinous all over the world, declared of national tourist interest, with more than
20.000 drum players, wearing black tunic and red handkerchief at neck or black hood, rolling across the streets of Hellín. More information |
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| THE MINATEDA ROCK | |||
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A few kilometers from Hellín and nearby the village of Minateda
this hill raises, inhabited from the prehistoric era .
Later on it was fortified by the celtiberians and inhabited by visigoths and arabs, who left excavated tombs in the rock, presses, silos abd many other signs of their life. A nice tour across the ruins let you discover all these findings leading you to feel yourself a bit archaeologist. |
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| FÉREZ at 21,7 km. from the property | |||
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Its urban area keeps this arab impression that left in these territories the long period of muslim domination.
Its streets are narrow and offer reserved corners where you can feel all this medieval atmosphere. At the outskirts of the town and inside its municipal area you can find marvellous corners to walk and to rest, like the entertearning area of Arroyo de la Mora or the Atajadero area. Over the Segura river, on the road from Férez to Hellín, there is the bridge called Puente de Híjar, where there is a bathing and fishing area and you have also the occasion to enjoy the extraordinary sight of the river. More information |
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| LETUR at 29,6 km. from the property | |||
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It is the arab place most important in Albacete. The town is placed over a hill of rock having its urban area a clear moresque taste.
Its special significance has favored its declaration as Historic Artistic Monument. More information |
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| YESTE at 49,3 km. from the property | |||
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The importance of this village years ago, being the border with the Granada Kingdom, becomes evident in a surprising and well preserved
monumental area. The night of 23 August is, in Yeste, a night feast. They celebrate the pilgrimage to the hermitage of San Bartolomé. The Saint image comes out from the town to his hermitage. From 11 p.m. at night the pilgrims come up across the road with torches. The piles of firewood placed along the trip are fired before the image of the Saint arrives, this is the moment the firecrackers start sounding and the fireworks. More information |
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| RIOPAR at 54 km. from the property | |||
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Placed in the middle of the Sierra, this town, is nearby the Cazorla Segura and Las Villas Natural Park, having the one and only Special Protection zone from the Albacete Province. It is the place known as Los Chorros having into its territory the spectacular source of Mundo River. More information |
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| ELCHE DE LA SIERRA at 19,2 km. from the property | |||
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The capital of Sierra del Segura. Its streets are the ideal scenery , during the September holidays. You can state why its inhabitants are proud being this town considered as the origin of the encierros (bull runs). More information |
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| AYNA at 32 km. from the property | |||
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It is a village with a special aesthetic. Its narrow streets with clear moresque taste are open to the Mundo River bathing its feet, like long windows. They have wide steps and not high,
with courves and turns surprising to the visitor. More information |
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| ALBACETE at 84,6 km. from the property | |||
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Fairs and Holidays from 7 to 17 September. The proclamation and crowning of the manchego woman, the opening cavalcade, sport competitions of different type, exhibitions, lectures, conferences, puppet theater,
popular dances, parades, brass bands, bullfights... So it is, a bit of everything and for everybody. To be emphasized also the Moros y Cristianos feasts at Caudete town, from 6 to 10 September. More information |
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| MURCIA at 103,8 km. from the property | |||
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SPRING FEASTS
· El bando de la huerta (first tuesday after the Holy Week) The city becomes an orchard where people goes out on the streets with their regional wearings. Starting the day with a flowers offering to the Fuensanta Virgin. ·The sardine burial (next saturday to Resurrection Sunday) The burial is the victory of don Carnal over doña Cuaresma,
it is a pagan feast, of mitology and fire, and it is a magic night of obliged visit to our town |
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| ALICANTE at 170 km. from the property | |||
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Dont lose the fires of Sant Joan, the night of June 24. They are sculptures made of carboard polychromed and with a deep satirical meaning, at night of June 20. They are the main feasts of Alicante, officially declared as of International Tourist Interest, being their origins very remote because the practice of burning things, dancing around a fire with the arrival of the sumnmer solstice, is ancestral. More information |
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| VALENCIA at 200 km. from the property | |||
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LAS FALLAS The big pantomimic of life dramatized, where current events are satirized: the Fallas. The most important starts on May 16 because at 8 a.m. more than 700 cardboard sculptures (monumentos) must be already built on the streets, squares and corners. During these days a lot of events happen, from the despertás (firecrackers), to fireworks castles... At 12 p.m. on May 19 and except one ninot (sculpture), that previously has been voted as the best among citizens, all the fallas are completely burned. More information |
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