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A city break in the 'RealSpain' of Antequera will open your eyes to what Spain is really all about!

With it's fabulous and manifold churches, ancient monuments and architecture, the historic city of Antequera, in the province of Malaga, Andalucia (Andalusia), in southern Spain, is truly a hidden gem.

Antequera an ideal city break destination with it's proximity to some of Spain's most prominent historical cites, along with it's own abundance of some of the best sights and experiences in Spain.

Take for example it's many ancient and splendid churches, cathedrals  and convents.  These, along with the  Domenes, (or pre-historic caves), the 'El Torcal Montagnes' (dramatic mountains with astounding antediluvian rock formations as well as incredible vistas of the Costa Del Sol over 50 kilometres distant), make the city a place to visit time and time again.

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 indutiably 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 fertile 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.

Well worth a visit for a day, week or even longer if you are a golfer.  Antequera hosts one of the best Golf courses in the region, along with it's own 4 star hotel.

For something more flexible and a lot less costly, try http://www.realspainbreaks.com

If you have been thinking of selling up (or swapping your UK home), and moving to warmer climes, you could do worse than looking at http://www.spainforyou.net a site aimed at ex-pats and those thinking about.  It has a wealth of information on the subject.



If your interests go beyond holiday breaks in the sun, and the lure of a better life draws you, inland Spain offers a great choice of lifestyles, particularly if you are looking at retirement.

If you think you have seen all that Spain has to offer, or maybe you feel that it is a country able only to provide sun, sand, Sangria  and gangsters on the run, you need to think again.

Forget the Costas. Get away from the organised crime and drug smuggling centres, and head inland.

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.

If you like fine renaissance architecture, or just fine buildings in beautiful surroundings, good food, great wine, nice people and the enjoyment of an ideal city break destination, this is where you might just have struck lucky!

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, a mere 2 hours travelling time away.

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