The Woman in the Dolmen: Where a Medieval Legend Explains a 19-Metre-Deep Shaft Deep shaft inside the Menga Dolmen – the setting for the medieval legend of the woman who sought healing here In the rear third of the burial…
Antequera’s culinary heritage: where bread, cream and Polvorón are tradition Antequera isn’t just a town of the Alcazaba, the Collegiate Church and the UNESCO dolmens — it’s also a bakery. Three specialities have made the town famous well beyond the…
Antequera DOP Olive Oil: Where Hojiblanca Trees Have Grown Since Roman Times Drive out of Antequera in any direction and you’ll see the same thing: silvery-green olive groves, row after row, stretching to the horizon. The plateau around the town…
Antequera on an Andalusia road trip: more than just a stopover Anyone planning a round trip through Andalusia thinks first of Seville, Granada, Córdoba. Perhaps Ronda too. And then, at some point, you spot this point in the middle of…
The Legend of the Lovers of the Peña: Where Two Worlds End in a Single Leap La Peña de los Enamorados near Antequera – the Lovers’ Rock Anyone looking north-east from the Alcazaba in Antequera sees it on the horizon:…
La Montera: Where El Torcal puts its hat on When locals in Antequera say the mountain has „put on its Montera“, nobody needs to check the weather app any more. A dense, flat cloud then sits like a hat on…
Termas Romanas in Antequera: Where Antikaria Bathed Below the collegiate church Real Colegiata Santa María la Mayor, on the slope of the fortress plateau, lie the excavated remains of a Roman bathing complex from the 1st century AD. The Termas…
Porra antequerana: where the cold soup gets thicker than gazpacho When the tomatoes hang ripe on the vines in July and the midday sun blazes over Antequera, a soup appears on the tables in the city’s kitchens that exists in…
Tholos de El Romeral in Antequera: a domed tomb that points to the karst mountains Anyone who has seen the Dolmen of Menga and the Dolmen of Viera on the eastern edge of Antequera might think they have grasped the…
Alcazaba de Antequera: Where a Moorish castle towers over the town Anyone walking through Antequera’s old town has it constantly in view: above the rooftops, behind the white façades, at the town’s highest point stands a defensive ring of walls…
Real Colegiata Santa María la Mayor: Antequera’s First Renaissance Building Anyone climbing the steps to the Alcazaba inevitably stands before it: the Real Colegiata Santa María la Mayor leans, quite literally, against the walls of the Moorish fortress, as if…
Arco de los Gigantes in Antequera: a Renaissance gate that links the city to its antiquity Anyone climbing the steep Cuesta de San Judas from Antequera’s town centre doesn’t simply end up in a narrow alley, but passes beneath a…
Peña de los Enamorados: Where a Rock Profile Watches Over the Dolmen of Antequera Anyone arriving in Antequera for the first time and approaching the town along the A-92 cannot miss it: a table mountain to the north, whose silhouette…
Ephebus of Antequera: Where a bronze youth tells the city’s story In the Museo de la Ciudad de Antequera, in the Palacio de Nájera, stands a bronze statue roughly two thousand years older than everything around it. The Ephebus of…
Dolmen de Menga: the largest dolmen in Europe stands in Antequera 5,000 years ago, people moved stones weighing 180 tonnes. Without wheels, without cranes, without steel. The Dolmen de Menga in Antequera is the result of this feat – and…
Dolmen de Viera in Antequera: a megalithic tomb that points exactly at the morning sun Anyone looking through the entrance of the Dolmen de Viera sees what mattered 5,000 years ago: a narrow, straight corridor that points precisely to where…