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Granada – Bodega Barranco Oscuro in Las Alpujarras

Post author:mpowell
Post published:March 1, 2010
Post category:Day Trips / Food & Drink / Photography / Travel
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Midway into our drive through the Alpujarras, we stopped at Bodega Barranco Oscuro, a small family-run winery near Cádiar. It was the off-season, and just after 5pm, so I think…

Granada – Las Alpujarras

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Post published:February 25, 2010
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The second half of our Granada day trip took us east from Almuñécar along the Costa Tropical and then north into the Alpujarras. A gorgeous mountain district of Granada, las…

Granada – El Suspiro del Moro and Almuñécar

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Post published:February 23, 2010
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Legend has it that when the Moors were finally conquered and kicked out of Granada, Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Al-Andalus, paused at the southern mountain pass for a…