Villanueva de Tapia Property Real Estate Agents

Many visitors to Andalucia say one of the nicest drives inland from the Costa del Sol & Malaga is out towards Loja & Granada on the A359, turning off at the A333 to Villanueva de Tapia. This little village of just 2,000 inhabitants is 85 km from Malaga City & sits at around 660 m above sea level. It teeters between two worlds, where the province of Granada ends & Cordoba begins - just inside the regional boundary of Antequera. When you drive either to Cordoba or Jaen on the road past Villanueva de Tapia, you will immediately sense that this is the borderline into 'real' Andalucia.

The landscape is fairly gentle with some hills breaking it up here & there, especially in the southern side of the municipality, where the Pedroso Mountain rises to a height of 1,205 m. Undulating olive groves & fields of cereal crops dominate the countryside to the north of this area.

Villanueva de Tapia is typical of the white villages in the rest of the Antequera region. Walking through the little streets, you can still see vestiges of the 18th century architecture in the facades of some of the buildings. There is the old Santa Barbara Inn (now a privately owned property), which adds to the flavour of the past to this Andalucian enclave.

The parish church sticks out amongst the tiled roofs of the Villanueva de Tapia houses, with its factory brick finish & tall thin tower topped with coloured tiles.

The surrounding countryside contrasts between the soft rolling olive groves, cereal crops & the backdrop of hills. Close to the urban centre are the Artillería & Gordo hills, the Cerezo & Aulaguilla streams. With the main crops being olives & cereals, water is of great importance & the main source comes from the 'Nacimiento', 'Borbollón' & 'Matea'. From the north of the village up to Iznájar (which is right on the border of the Cordoba Province) olive groves really take over the landscape. Otherwise, the countryside is mainly covered in old oak & pine forests, in between rocky areas. You can see the remains of Arabic & Roman buildings, which although they only amount to some scattered ruins; they still leave a very interesting historical legacy to the area.

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Antequera, Archidona, Villanueva del Trabuco, Villanueva del Rosario, Fuente De Piedra, Villanueva de Tapia, Mollina (Nr. Antequera), Granada, Iznajar and Morocco.