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Top 10 Free Things to Do in Spain. Sevilla Travel Guide. Cadiz Guide. Cadiz travel guide. Get in[edit] By plane[edit] The closest airport is Jerez de la Frontera, about 35 minutes by car or taxi (fixed price €46), 1 hour by direct bus or train (RENFE cercanías stops 3 times a day at the airport station [1], single ride from €4,7, buy at the vending machine), though there are few buses and trains, and the schedules do not fit most flights.

Cadiz travel guide

There are several daily flights to Madrid and Barcelona (Iberia, Vueling). Ryanair flies daily to London Stansted and Frankfurt Hahn. Other operators fly scheduled, charter, or seasonal flights. By bus[edit] For Jerez-Cádiz and other medium range timetables see [2]. By train[edit] Frequent trains run to Jerez and about hourly to Seville. Trains from Seville are around 12,5 € for a single and 20€ for a return. By car[edit] From Madrid, Cordoba and Seville you can use the A4, from Barcelona N340. By Boat[edit] Cruise ships often dock within easy walking distance of the old city/downtown. For ferry operators and timetables see [4]. Get around[edit] Coto Doñana national park, Flora and Fauna of Andalucía, Southern Spain. Coto Doñana national park By Jo Williams The Parque Nacional de Doñana is one of Europe's most important wetland reserves and a major site for migrating birds.

Coto Doñana national park, Flora and Fauna of Andalucía, Southern Spain.

It is an immense area; the parque itself and surrounding parque natural or Entorno de Doñana (a protected buffer zone) amount to over 1,300 sq km in the provinces of Huelva, Sevilla and Cádiz. It is internationally for recognised for its great ecological wealth. Doñana has become a key centre in the world of conservationism. Doñana is well known for its enormous variety of bird species, either permanent residents, winter visitors from north and central Europe or summer visitors from Africa, like its numerous types of geese and colourful colonies of flamingo. Doñana National Park. Doñana National Park is a natural reserve in Andalusia, southern Spain, in the provinces of Huelva and Seville.

Doñana National Park

It covers 543 km2 (209.65 sq mi), of which 135 km2 (52.12 sq mi) are a protected area. The park is an area of marshes, shallow streams, and sand dunes in Las Marismas, the delta where the Guadalquivir River flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It was established as a nature reserve in 1969 when the World Wildlife Fund joined with the Spanish government and purchased a section of marshes to protect it.[2] The eco-system has been under constant threat by the drainage of the marshes, the use of river water to boost agricultural production by irrigating land along the coast, and the expansion of tourist facilities.[3] It is named after Doña Ana de Silva y Mendoz, wife of the seventh Duke of Medina-Sidonia. Donana National Park (Parque Nacional de Donana) Reviews - Huelva, Province of Huelva Attractions. Things to do in Andalucía.

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Malaga. Looking south out over Malaga Understand[edit]

Malaga

Málaga. Málaga (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmalaɣa]) is a city and a municipality, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain.

Málaga

With a population of 568,507 in 2010[citation needed], it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. The southernmost large city in Europe, it lies on the Costa del Sol (Coast of the Sun) of the Mediterranean, about 100 km (62.14 mi) east of the Strait of Gibraltar and about 130 km (80.78 mi) north of Africa. Málaga enjoys a subtropical–mediterranean climate. It has one of the warmest winters in Europe, with average temperatures of 17 °C (62.6 °F) during the day and 7–8 °C (45–46 °F) at night in the period from December through February. The summer season lasts about eight months, from April to November, although in the remaining four months temperatures sometimes reach around 20 °C (68.0 °F). Migas - Typical dishes - Provincia de Málaga y su Costa del Sol. Whether you call it just migas, or you add the adjective cortijeras, this dish, which is usually a complete meal in itself, is the most common stew of the Málaga winters.

Migas - Typical dishes - Provincia de Málaga y su Costa del Sol

The nourishing power of migas is summarised in the proverb that goes, “Las migas, hasta la haza; las sopas, hasta ” (soups will take you to the town square, but migas will take you to your plot). It is also very cheap because it uses hard bread and other ingredients that are never missing from Andalusian houses: olive oil, salt and lots of garlic.

Recipe Ingredients: A leg bread, garlic, oil, marinated olives, radishes. Preparation First take some local stale bread (baked several days ago) and cut in slices, putting them in a serving dish; each time you make a batch of bread, soak it with a splash of hot water and add a little salt. The bread, or until the serving dish is full. Then take a substantial number of garlic cloves, peel and chop them.