{"id":80,"date":"2008-07-27T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=80"},"modified":"2008-07-27T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T14:00:53","slug":"traveling-through-andalusia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/traveling-through-andalusia\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling through Andalusia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span>Andalusia (Andaluc\u00eda in Spanish) is the most populated and second largest autonomous community in Spain, as well as most visited, both by Spanish people and by foreign tourists. Among the most popular routes is the \u201cpueblos blancos\u201d route. On it, the traveler can visit small and medium-sized villages in C\u00e1diz and M\u00e1laga (Sierra de Grazalema and Serran\u00eda de Ronda) and enjoy a varied and beautiful landscape. They&#8217;re called \u201cpueblos blancos\u201d (white villages) because its inhabitants frequently whitewash their houses, which are located on narrow streets and have red tile roofs. Many of these pueblos still have a castle or the remains of a castle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span>East of Almer\u00eda you&#8217;ll find the National Park Cabo de Gata-N\u00edjar, with its beautiful and quiet beaches, going as far as Moj\u00e1car. In Almer\u00eda&#8217;s countryside you can find a blend of mountains and deserts.\u00a0 Its landscape made it a perfect location for shooting western movies (&#8220;The good, the bad and the ugly&#8221;, &#8220;For a few dollars more,&#8221; &#8220;A fistful of dollars,&#8221; and even &#8220;Lawrence of Arabia&#8221; were shot on location there). On the way to Granada, you can choose between crossing the Alpujarras or going north towards Sierra  Nevada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span>Another very interesting excursion is \u201cRuta del Califato\u201d. It goes through C\u00f3rdoba, former capital of the Muslim empire in the 10<sup>th<\/sup> century, and Granada. There you&#8217;ll find remains of the Arabic splendor like La Mezquita (The Mosque), the Medina Azahara ruins in C\u00f3rdoba or the Alhambra in Granada. Bullfighting and flamenco (a music and dance form that originated and is still exclusive to this region) also attract visitors from all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span>Among several famous people from Andalusia we have Pablo Picasso, Alejandro Sanz, David Bisbal, Lola Flores, Estrella Morente (and her father Enrique), Diego Vel\u00e1zquez, Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, Camaron de la Isla, Paz Vega, Antonio Banderas, Joaquin Sabina and Paco de Lucia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andalusia (Andaluc\u00eda in Spanish) is the most populated and second largest autonomous community in Spain, as well as most visited, both by Spanish people and by foreign tourists. Among the most popular routes is the \u201cpueblos blancos\u201d route. On it, the traveler can visit small and medium-sized villages in C\u00e1diz and M\u00e1laga (Sierra de Grazalema&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/traveling-through-andalusia\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,159,161],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-andalusia","tag-tourism","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}