Cordoba to Granada Andalucia Road Trip in Spain Europe Almodovar Castle
In this Spain travel vlog we leave behind the Cathedral Mosque of Cordoba and the quaint village of Almodóvar del Río with it's impressive looking castle, and we head out through the narrow streets and take a road trip to Granada Spain.
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GoT Highgarden, Castillo de Almodovar del Rio, Spain
The gorgeous castle in Game of Thrones season 7, Eq 3 is Castillo de Almodóvar del Río in the Andalusian, Spain.
Córdoba, Spain - Casa de Sefarad (Jewish Museum) & de Almodóvar
Known as Murallas y Puertas de Almodovar (the Puerta de Almodóvar) it is the gate leading to the old Jewish quarter of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain. The old wall features statues of some well known locals: Averroes, a Moorish philosopher & Seneca, Roman statesman. The impressive gate & wall are adjacent to a more modern area of Cordoba, but it does not distract from the beauty and antiquity.
While in the Jewish quarter we visted Casa de Sefarad, a small and very interesting museum devoted to the history of the Jewish community (Judería de Córdoba) that was once very prominent in Cordoba at one time.
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Lucena, añoranzas de Sefarad. Córdoba
Un viaje diferente, el mapa de Andalucía con videos espectaculares…. en nuestra Web!!
Les presentamos la perla de Sefarad, la ciudad de las tres culturas, Lucena, en Córdoba. Una ciudad rodeada de olivares en la Comarca de la Subbética, donde se combinan a la perfección, arte, historia, y naturaleza. Dentro de su extenso término se encuentran zonas de gran interés como la R. N. de la Laguna Amarga, la R. N. de la Laguna de los Jarales y el P. N. del Embalse de Malpasillo, curiosa muestra de cómo una acción humana es asimilada por la naturaleza. La ciudad, una de las más importantes de la provincia, ofrece muchísimos alicientes turísticos, desde su historia, su tradición artesana, su gastronomía, o sus fiestas. Una ciudad dinámica herencia de un importante pasado judío, árabe y cristiano.
Ayuntamiento de Lucena:
Plaza Nueva, 1, C.P. 14900, Lucena Córdoba. Telf: 957 50 04 10
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Vista aérea de Almodôvar Março de 2016 (Parrot Bebop Drone)
Vista aérea de Almodôvar Março de 2016 (Parrot Bebop Drone)
This video was recovered from the Drone after it fell and submerged on a half meter of water. The Drone and battery are still fully functional after they have dried.
TE ESPERO CADA NOCHE. MERCHE. Almodovar 11-9-15
Costa Natura 170 - naturist holidays Spain perfect studio apartment
Costa Natura Estepona. For your next naturist holidays Spain, check out the beautiful naturist hotel – top pick in naturist hotels.
Costa Natura is the oldest naturist holiday resort in Spain. Sitting directly on the beach, it looks like a typical Andalusian village set in beautiful gardens filled with flowers and lawns. Large swimming pool and children’s paddling pool, a restaurant, bar and beach bar, jacuzzi, sauna, volleyball court, petanque court and children’s playground. Located on Costa de Sol it’s the ideal climate for a nudist holiday.
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Apartment 170 is a modern, fully renovated, studio apartment with a bright, light and spacious feel, that has all that you need for both short or long naturist holidays in all seasons. There is sun on the terrace from late morning until sunset where you can enjoy the last of the evening sun.
The terrace has a sunshade so you can sunbathe or enjoy the shade as you please. Both the apartment and the terrace have partial sea views.
It has AC for the hot summer days and underfloor heating to keep the studio warm and cosy in the winter.
Costa Natura Spain has a Beach Bar open from spring to autumn, that serves light meals & drinks and a Restaurant open throughout the year situated beside the pool. In the high season there is daily entertainment in the Restaurant in the evenings.
If you prefer to make some meals yourself then you will find the kitchen is modern and efficient, especially for a studio sized apartment, offering all you need, including a dishwasher. There is also a combi oven / microwave. Thus you are able to cook all your meals in the apartment if you so wish.
The living space in the studio is surprisingly good, offering sufficient space for two to dine indoors or on the terrace at the dining table and in comfortable chairs. The double bed is equipped with a soft bed gable so you can sit and watch television or read.
There is ample storage space with room for suitcases under the bed, a large set of drawers, and a wardrobe. The bathroom is light and welcoming with large shower. There is high-speed Wi-Fi.
The perfect studio for your naturist holidays in Spain!
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Costa Natura Estepona is a nudist resort providing the perfect setting for a naturist vacation for the whole family. In the high season an animator keeps the children busy. Costa Natura simply teems with happy naturists of all ages. At other times of the year the resort is more club-like with a relaxed atmosphere making it easy to meet and get to know fellow naturists.
All apartments are individually furnished and owned by naturists from around the world. The owners run the resort through a Community which employs staff to ensure that CostaNatura is always well maintained and well presented. They ensure that the reception, restaurant and beach bar are operated by professionals to make your nude holidays a great experience.
Dress code
Costa Natura is a naturist resort and as in normal naturist hotels people don’t wear clothes whenever possible. Nudity is not mandatory but it is considered normal anywhere in the resort including the reception and the launderette. However, in the pools, the sauna and the Jacuzzi, swim costumes are not allowed.
Dressing up in the evenings is part of the holiday experience for some while others prefer nudity throughout their entire stay and there is opportunity for both. Many guests who wish to dine without clothes also want to catch the last evening sun which they can on the restaurant’s covered poolside terrace. For breakfast and lunch nobody would dream of dressing.
When you don’t wear clothes remember to always bring something to sit on. A towel can also be used if you need to cover up and some women find a longyi or wrap-around more stylish than a towel, but never wear a swimsuit – this is perceived as a dissociation from the essence of naturism and out of line on a nude holiday.
Naturist holidays in Spain
The official Spanish attitude to nudity is liberal no law exists which prohibits nudity in public anywhere. As a result, there are beaches used by naturists all along the Spanish coastline including Vera Playa.
At Costa-Natura naturism is practiced in a friendly and laid-back atmosphere. So whether you are an ardent naturist, somebody who enjoys nudist beaches, skinny-dipping or would just like to give nudist holidays a try, you will find Costa-Natura the right place for the perfect naturist holidays Spain experience.
History:
The developers of Cap d’Agde believed that Costa del Sol, with 320 days of sunshine a year, would make an even better location for nudist holidays and so they built Costa Natura adjacent to the local naturist beach.
New Doctor of the Church: San Juan de Ávila
August 20, 2011. (Romereports.com) Benedict XVI officially declared San Juan de Avila a Doctor of the Church. The title is a recognition the Pope gives to certain saints considered great teachers of faith, whose teachings are still relevent regardless of time. Currently there are 33.
San Juan de Ávila, was born in the year 1500 in Almodóvar del Campo, near Toledo in Spain. He died in 1569. He's know as the Apostle of Andalusia, because he evangelized there for several years. He was a strong advocate of reforming the clergy and his texts influenced the Council of Trent.
He was a friend of St. John of the Cross and a spiritual advisor to St. Teresa of Avila. He's also known for being the patron of Spanish clergy. His feast day is May 10th.
Saint John of Avila, Apostle of Andalusia (6 January 1500, Almodóvar del Campo -- 10 May 1569, Montilla, Spain) was a Spanish apostolic preacher, author, mystic and saint, canonized in 1970. He is known in Spanish as San Juan de Ávila.
Saint John of Avila was of Jewish converso descent.[1] At the age of fourteen he was sent to the University of Salamanca to study law but returned after a year to his father's home, where he spent the next three years in the practice of austere piety. His sanctity impressed a Franciscan journeying through Almodóvar, on whose advice he took up the study of philosophy and theology at Alcalá, where he was fortunate to have as his teacher the famous Dominican Domingo de Soto. While he was a student his parents died and after his ordination he celebrated his first mass in the church where they were buried, sold the family property and gave the proceeds to the poor.
He saw in the severing of natural ties a vocation to foreign missionary work and prepared to go to Mexico. In 1527, while he was in Seville looking for a favorable opportunity to set out for his new field of labour, his unusually great devotion in celebrating mass attracted the attention of Hernando de Contreras, a priest of Seville, who mentioned him to the archbishop and Inquisitor General, Don Alonso Manrique de Lara. The archbishop saw in the young missionary a powerful instrument to stir up the faith in Andalusia, and after considerable persuasion Juan was induced to abandon his journey to America.
His first sermon was preached on 22 July 1529, and immediately established his reputation; crowds thereafter packed the churches at all his sermons. At Seville he was brought before the inquisitor and charged with exaggerating the dangers of wealth and closing the gates of heaven to the rich. His innocence of the charges was quickly proved, and by special invitation of the court he was appointed to preach the sermon on the next great feast in the church of San Salvador, in Seville. Like other Spanish mystics of the period, including La Beata de Piedrahita, he was suspected several times during his career of belonging to the Alumbrados, deemed a heretical sect.
He began his career as apostolic preacher of Andalusia, aged thirty. After nine years he returned to Seville, only to depart for the wider fields of Cordova, Granada, Baeza, Montilla and Zafra. For eighteen years before his death he was the victim of constant illness, the result of the hardships of his apostolate of forty years. He was declared Venerable by Pope Clement XIII on 8 February 1799 and beatified by Pope Leo XIII on 12 November 1893. In 1970 he was canonised by Pope Paul VI.
Among the disciples attracted by his preaching and saintly reputation were Saint Teresa of Ávila, Saint John of God, Saint Francis Borgia and the Venerable Louis of Granada.
Saint John of Avila's works were collected at Madrid in 1618, 1757, 1792 and 1805; a French translation by d'Andilly was published at Paris in 1673; and a German translation by Schermer in six volumes was issued at Regensburg between 1856 and 1881. His best-known works are the Audi Fili (English translation, 1620), one of the best tracts on Christian perfection, and his Spiritual Letters (English translation, 1631, reprinted London 1904) to his disciples.
John of Avila as of 2011 is under consideration for being declared a Doctor of the Church
CASTILLO DE LA MOTA San Sebastián
El castillo de la Mota domina la ciudad de San Sebastián desde lo alto del Monte Urgull.
Artículos de interpretación del patrimonio en:
Sortes Ana - Cortijo Puerta Casas Rurales - La Alpujarra
Casa de campo rodeada de olivos, naranjos, limoneros… Situada en mitad del valle del Guadalfeo en Órgiva, rodeada de una huerta de 10,000 metros cuadrados con una piscina privada para su uso exclusivo.
Construida en dos plantas, en la planta baja hay una cocina equipada con lavavajillas, microondas, frigorífico, nevera con congelador, lavadora, tostador de pan y vitrocerámica; un dormitorio con cama de matrimonio y un salón con chimenea, aire acondicionado, TV y una gran mesa donde comer; también dispone de un cuarto de baño completo adaptado a minusválidos en la planta baja. En la planta alta hay tres dormitorios, uno con dos camas individuales y los otros dos con cama de matrimonio; esta planta alta también dispone de un cuarto de baño completo con ducha. Todos los dormitorios cuentan con radiadores eléctricos.
Un cortijo andaluz donde disfrutar del descanso alejado de los ruidos, en pleno contacto con la naturaleza. Se admiten mascotas. La piscina está vallada.
Además esta casa dispone de un módulo suplementario con dos dormitorios dobles independientes cada uno con su propio cuarto de baño (ambos con cama de matrimonio y con acceso por el exterior de la casa), ofreciendo la posibilidad de alojar 10 y 12 personas de un modo confortable.