Spain, Everything Under the Sun

The Alpujarras, small villages nested in Granada's surrounding mountains, have kept their traditional spirit and the quiet, slow-paced life still survives. One can stroll around the quiet backstreets full of whitewashed houses and see the older generations sitting outside their houses sewing, chatting, and watching the time pass by.

In Andalucía you will find a cacophony of flowers everywhere you go, including cascades of geraniums, petunias and begonias adorning the entrance and patios of whitewashed houses.

When the Moors were driven out of Spain by Christian rulers in the fifteenth century, they fled to the mountains and took to living in the caves thus starting the cave culture. In the town of Guadix, in Southern Spain, there is an area known as La Barriada de las Cuevas, where every hill has a cave with a painted white façade and a front door occupied by many local families.