Antequera Property Real Estate Agents

Antequera Property Real Estate Agents specialising inland - selling villas, country properties, townhouses, apartments, plots and ruins throughout the area.

Guidebooks to Andalucia tend to focus on the justifiably world-famous cities of Seville, Granada, and Cordoba. However, the historic but far less well known city of Antequera is equally worth a visit and its lack of fame means that its essential Andalucian charm remains undimmed by coach parties and souvenir shops.

Antequera is a medium sized, increasingly prosperous and stylish city about 38 miles inland from the coast at Malaga. As you drive down from the Montes de Malaga on your way from the airport, it is a wonderful sight as the vega (plain) of Antequera opens up before your eyes, a wide lush, green plain, sprinkled with little white farmhouses shimmering in the sunshine. This is the moment when you know you have reached the real Andalucia - an entirely different world from the coast!

Antequera has a long history – it´s prehistoric burial sites or 'Dolmens' testify to that. It´s varied and beautiful architecture bears the mark of the many different overlords of this ancient town. The Romans called it Antikaria meaning 'ancient' and Roman treasures can be seen in the town's museum. The town was renamed Medina Anticaria by Spain's Arab invaders, who ruled the town until 1410, when the Moorish castle that still dominates the town fell to the Christian armies of the Reconquest. Many pages could be filled with descriptions of Antequera's beautiful churches, monasteries and historic buildings, too many to list here! The tourist office in the Plaza San Sebastian will supply all the information you need for a delightful day's sightseeing.