Trips through Spain - Antequerra

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Dolmens in Antequerra

Torcal & its rock formations

Tuesday 9th May 2000

After visiting the Dolmens, I went back through the town and up into the limestone country to the West by a very winding indeed but relatively main road. While I had thought I had done my map-reading, the maps are not very good and we were seeking the Gargante del Chorro gorge. We'd turned off on a side road marked to El Chorro which seemed the right thing to do, and indeed it was quite dramatic but ended up in a dirt track by the power station. A side track marked to El Chorro did the same, so we went some way back and took a better but still dirt-track for about five miles to Las Melizas and found a decent road round it to the Gargantes which was quite near the power-station in fact. This road continued up a side valley through more limestone dramatic country to a sudden view of an artificial lake, the Embase de Gaitanejo and a return to countryside of a human scale and existence. We went on to Ardales for lunch, fish and tortillas in a charming little local café full of men playing dominoes during the lunch hour. Then we had a bit of Spanish two-lane motorway to Carratraca and a twisty mountain road through pines to Alora, perched above another valley & with a grand castle. This in fact, got us back on to the A343 to Antiquerra by about 3 o'clock. The town was quite dead and not even the Sebastian Square Café was open but the tourist office pointed us to a grumbly cafe down the main street.

West of Antequerra	Gargante del Chorro	Nearly at the Gargante del Chorro
Embase de Gaitanejo	Embase de Gaitanejo	Ardales - never sees tourists
Near Ardales	Alora

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