Today we decided to visit a town we have driven through, but never properly visited, even though it is famous for its cave houses, Almanzora. The whole area is surrounded by cliffs, made of very soft sandstone, which makes it relatively simple to carve out rooms in the cliff. We are not fully up on the total history of the place, and everything we have found so far is written in Spanish, but if we find anything interesting we will post it later. Jane found what appear to be oyster shells in the disturbed earth. Don’t know how they would have got there. Again, if we find out, will post it later.
Not the “Hoover Dam” but very impressive. The symbol that is painted on the Dam, can be found all over Almeria. It was found painted on the walls in one of the very old caves here. Thought to be 1000 plus years old.
Today was a very over cast day, we cannot complain., as it is the first one we have had. Coolish too, at just 17c.
As you can see some of the caves have been built out.
Many of these caves are still lived in full time, and are often listed in the local real estate windows, both for sale and to let.
The front door.
This is one we got to have a look in, there was around 8 rooms in it.
The back of the house. Note the chimney.
This picture was taken without the flash.
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