Sierra Nevada mountains
20. Juni 2018 in Spanien â âïž 21 °C
Finally some scenery without greenhouses đ
Winter snow still lying in the crevices in the high peaks!
Finally some scenery without greenhouses đ
Winter snow still lying in the crevices in the high peaks!
Castillo de La Calahorra is located in La Calahorra, in the province of Granada, Spain. It is situated in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Built between 1509 and 1512, it is one of the first ItalianWeiterlesen
Gibraltar is a headland on Spain's south coast, belonging to Britain. It’s dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar, a 426m-high limestone ridge.
First settled by the Moors in the Middle Ages and laterWeiterlesen
The Osborne Sherry company (founded by Thomas Osborne Mann in 1772) erected large images of bulls starting in the 1950's to advertise it's Brandy de Jerez. The original image contained the name ofWeiterlesen
The late spring and early summer seem to be the time for sunflowers in the south of Spain. In the middle of nowhere, outside Seville, there are field upon field of sunflowers (or girasoles inWeiterlesen
The solar collector towers, named PS10 and PS20, began operating in 2007 and 2009. Each is surrounded by a field of angled mirrors known as heliostats, which reflect solar radiation onto a receiverWeiterlesen
After 4 days in Spain, we crossed into Portugal.
I wish I learnt to speak Portuguese from my Portuguese school friends đ€Ș
Spending our 1st night in a seaside town called Faro. Not too small as itWeiterlesen
The Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe Chapel is situated in between the small villages of Budens and Raposeira, in the lovely department of Vila do Bispo, on the western side of the Algarve region.
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The Fortaleza Sagres is located at the southern tip of the Sagres Peninsular and this uniquely designed fort protected the town from raiders from North Africa.
This is where Henry the NavigatorWeiterlesen
Much of the drive though the Algarve was through huge citrus orchards. This is because the Algarve produces up to 70% of all citrus harvested in Portugal. Between 300,000 and 400,000 tonnes of theWeiterlesen