Bar, Restaurant, owners house playground for kids
Swimming pool opens out in summer months
neat cottages in Village more lovely interesting buildings in the village to see on a visit
Bit of art in the main road through the Town
Bit of art in the main road through the Town
Basque Country north west Spain
Built by the Romans to supply water to the town from river nearby still works to this day.
Lovely architecture in the town
Town has town fortress wall
This is were some footage of Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun was filmed for channel 5 television. Also that is were Happy Days works, you would know who i am talking about if you had been a regular watcher of that program.
Alhambra Palace
Views from Alhambra Palace
Bell tower
View towards Sierra Nevada Mountains note the snow capped mountains
View of skyscrapers in Benidorm from Villamar Camp site majority of them are holiday resorts and hotels one of them was on comedy series "Benidorm" as Solana guise resort.
Railway coming out of a tunnel going into the Gorge enters another tunnel further on
see where the railway goes into a tunnel at end of girder bridge, board walk is just above the tunnel this is before they replaced the board walk with a new one
Crossing the bridge and negotiating the walk not for the faint hearted.
Board walk
Hydro Electric Power Station fed from a lake behind that mountain
Hydro Electric Power Station lower dammed Pool
El Chorro village view from mountain above Hydro Electric Power Station
Almeria desert location where the Spaghetti Western films were produced, Western Film sets are now used as tourist attractions. This is the only area in Europe designated as a desert.
During the day the actors perform cowboy type mini Stories.
Mock-up of old spirit still
One of the actors having a break before next performance.
Indian Reservation
Another view of the sets.
The streets are just sand. Outside all the houses are the bars to tie up there horses have Fiestas with horse carts and horse parades various times in the year
Traditional Spanish Flamenco dress shop for local residents tourists are welcome to browse and buy goods.
This is also a real business for the local residents to use fascinating to see inside these shops.
beautiful building inside
More sandy streets, the children are so used to there environment that they ride there bicycles on the soft sand where others cannot I know from first hand experience tried riding my bike there with no success.
More lovely buildings
Houses perched on cliff edge, you would think that because of the vast size of Spain that the Spaniards would not build houses in such a place.
Vast sandy beach at Santa Maria this place is near Cadiz which is across the water in the distance.
Bull ring venue
Storks nesting high on the church parapets.
Storks nesting high on the church parapets.
Storks nesting high on the church parapets.
Do not know the significance of the costumes
Impressive Brass Band
These Spanish churches always very decorative architecture with there carved stone work.
Parade float appearing at the entrance
You would think that this was KKK with there pointed headgear
Massive impressive religious structure at least a dozen beefy pall bearers underneath
Pall bearers inside unable to see which way to go assistants outside speak to bearers through those yellow grills giving directions. The men in the funny head gear are relief pall bearers, take it in turns to carry the float. Do not know what the ladder is for. Perhaps he is a window cleaner who has lost his way LoL.
Ayuntamiento is Spanish for town hall Like many Spanish towns the town hall is a grand structure.
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