Our Accommodation All our rooms are spacious, feature full bathrooms and are very well equipped.
	Holiday Activities Our Activities are perfect for the adventurous and outdoor enthusiast.
	Our Area Our area has something for everyone. Breathtaking scenery, history, wildlife, fiestas.
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We can create a package to suit your needs and budget for walking holidays in Spain giving you total peace of mind, independence and freedom.

On the doorstep is the 54,000-acre Sierra Maria-Los Velez, a natural park since 1987, which holds many surprises for the visitor, including a rural lifestyle long disappeared from other parts of Spain.

Here, goatherders wander the hills as they guard their flocks, families bake their daily bread in the communal oven, and day-to-day business is carried on at an unhurried pace.

One of the most popular logos in Spain, the Indalo man, appears on a sheltered rock face in the mountains. Not far from where the Indalo was found is the Cueva de los Letreros (the Cave of Symbols), a UNESCO world heritage site, where drawings of witch doctors, warriors and game indicate that man has called this land home since prehistory.

Los Velez includes two beautiful traditional Spanish towns. Above the smaller of the two, Velez Blanco, is the striking castle perched on a hilltop. It was built in the early 16th century by the lord of these lands, the Marques de Velez, and declared a National Monument in 1931.

The town below has a maze of narrow streets and bubbling fountains. There is a beautiful swimming pool and picnic area situated in stunning woodland overlooking the valley.

The larger of the two towns is Velez Rubio, which sits at the foot of a fantastic "volcano-shaped" mountain, "Cerro Maimon", which is 1,761 metres at its highest point.

The town, which is just five minutes away by road from Casa Aventura, consists of winding, narrow, cobbled streets and bleached white buildings with terracotta roofs.

On the historic side the town has an imposing building in the shape of the Nuestra Senora de la Encarnacion parish church, which was declared a national Historic Artistic Monument in 1981. This is considered one of the best examples of religious architecture in Almeria.

Visitors should also take time to take in the municipality's non-religious 17 th , 18 th and 19 th century civil buildings and mansion houses. The Barroque-style Hospital Real, built in 1765, currently houses the Miguel Guirao Archaeology Museum.

The town also has good local amenities such as a medical centre, supermarkets, and a large public swimming pool and water park, surrounded by trees, with an adjoining bar and restaurant.

There are many fiestas throughout the year in which everybody proudly takes part, including a week for Easter that involves a large colourful procession through the town. There is also a whole month of fiesta in August when the carnival moves from town to town.

Every Saturday the town plays host to an impressive street market where visitors can purchase fresh, local produce, arts, crafts and gifts, and real bargains can be found if you are prepared to haggle!

The nearby park, with its landscape of mountains and pine forests, makes for excellent walking and off-trail biking expeditions (see our activities page), aside from harbouring a unique wildlife.

This is one of the few places in southern Spain where you can spot squirrels. It is also home to the threatened European tortoise (testudo graeca), which is now being bred at a special centre in the park to increase its numbers.

The local countryside also boasts a large variety of wildlife including foxes, wild boar, mountain cat and badgers, so if you are looking for walking holidays in Spain you have come to the right place.

Golden eagles, snake eagles and eagle owls soar in the skies above the house and other bird-life includes kestrel, vulgar, crossbill, linnet, thekla lark, wood lark, and partridge, which makes for excellent walks and days out in stunning, dramatic scenery.

The area is home to the impressive Griffon vulture in an ambitious plan to repopulate the sierras with these high-flying birds.