Destination Management Andalusia

Andalusia is the southern region of Spain, and it’s one of the in total 17 autonomic communities Spain has (Andalucía being the second largest in the country). This region is limited on the north by the region of Estremadura and the region of Castilla La Mancha. On the east, you will find the region of Murcia, Portugal on the west and Gibraltar with the Mediterranean Sea on the south. Andalusia is the 2nd biggest region of Spain with the highest population (8 millions inhabitants over more than 87.500 km2). Andalusia is divided into 8 provinces: Almería, Cadiz, Cordoba, Granade, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville.

This is in Andalusia that all the clichés about Spain come true: bullfights, tapas, flamenco, sweet wines, horse breeding, patios full of flowers, mixture of architectural and cultural point of view (Phoenicians, Carthaginian, Greeks, Romans, Muslims, Jews and Catholics have lived in Andalusia and left their remains and imprint in a way or another). This is also in Andalusia that you will be able to discover the little white villages perched upon hills.

Andalusia
Andalusia
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Seville. Heralded as Spain’s most cheery city, the beautiful streets of Sevilla burst with personality, joy and laid-back bustle

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Cordoba represents the Islamic empire at the very peak of its splendor and is one of the endpoints of the Ruta del Califato (Caliphate Route).
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The city of Granada that spreads out below the exuberant hill-top La Alhambra boasts a mixture of cultures: the Islamic quarters of the Moors, the massive late-Gothic cathedral commissioned by the Catholic monarchs Fernando and Isabel, the still-used cave homes of Granada’s traditional gypsy population in the Sacromonte neighborhood, and more.

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Ronda is certainly one of AndalucĂ­a’s most unique towns, in that it sits on either side of a narrow, 150-meter deep gorge! Three bridges dramatically span the ravine to link the two whitewashed parts of the town, another of AndalucĂ­a’s best pueblos blancos (white villages).

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Andalusia

Andalusia has been occupied by the Moors from 711 until 1492, which explains why this culture and their architecture and language influenced so deeply the Andalusia we know nowadays. The architectural style most representative of Andalusia is Mudejar style (a mixture of Arabic influences under the Catholic ruled empire). Many words of Spanish come from the Arab (all the name beginning by “al” have Arabic influence – an example is the Alhambra or Alcazar, meaning “fortress” in Arabic). These influences are mostly noticeable in Granada, the last city to have been taken back by the Catholics in the 15th century and last bastion of the Moorish kingdom. After the re-conquest, Andalusia also took an important part in the discovery of America. Indeed, this is from Seville, Cadiz and Huelva that all the boats going to the Americas have been launched, especially the boats of Christopher Columbus (buried in the Cathedral of Seville after resting in the convent close to Huelva in the last years of his life). Seville was the epicentre of Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries due to the fact that all the boats coming back from the New World had the obligation to stop in Seville to unload their precious products. Until 1950, Andalusia hardly changed respect to the way it was described in the middle of the 19th century by the English writer Richard Ford: “a piece of land put protected in a bottle for the antiquaries”, almost feudal, with the particularity of a strong and rigid social class. Nowadays, Andalusia is the first region of the world for the production of olive oil. Other products such as the fruits and vegetables (the strawberries from Huelva or the oranges from Seville are among the most representative), the excellent pork and Iberian hams and sausages, cheeses and wines are also very popular and world-widely famous products of Andalusia.

But Andalusia is not just agricultural anymore; several high speed ways have been constructed (especially for the 1992 Universal Exhibition taking place in Seville), now ultra modern buildings are competing with ancestral monuments like the Alhambra of Granada, the Mezquita of Cordoba or the Cathedral of Seville. Tourism and service sectors are also highly important in Andalusia and we can also be proud of being the location where the new Airbus was built and designed by local engineers. And although allying the old and the modern, Andalusian people have been able to keep their traditions, their love for the folklore, celebration and gastronomy, and still offering to the tourist their smile, hospitality and generosity.

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