And climb the slight and delicate landscape. Climb up wanting to climb this huge rock cliff that rises from the earth like a huge barrier. Scarp lies a stone heart, a hidden garden that beats to the rhythm that mark Tethys, a sea so old as mankind. Treasury chiseled time base and time and time. Treasury mutates and changes to the will of the cold and winds, meteors. Stone Garden immemorial immemorial. Hidden Heart Villanueva de la Concepción. A garden made with lapiaz torques and sinkholes. El Torcal, your hidden heart. Approach to El Torcal
And as we climb the rocks bristling white, hard, rock-strewn land, hover over us megalithic flakes, huge stone blades. In contrast to the biblical wife of Lot, we will become a statue if we look ahead, because if you look back will extend to us a perfect relief map of the province of Malaga, a lovely setting in which the sky blends with the sea and the horizon with the tops of the mountains. Only 
morning mists seem to escape the spell distance. Before arriving at the visitor center, parked for a moment at the Mirador de Diego Monea. Put your foot on the floor and greets us an orchestra of bells and cowbells, sheep and goats and their domains. The view we get from this vantage point is invaluable, perhaps like no other viewpoint in the province of Malaga. The boundaries of the mountains of Granada, Axarquia, Malaga, the mountain Ronda, Sierra de las Nieves, Montes de Malaga. 
is overwhelming, it seems we have all the province on the palm of your hand. Continuing on this gray and lunar landscape and we move with each stretch in a world tour in ways impossible in size, in understanding. Dolines appear the fingers of a giant rising from the earth, the descent into hell depressions, stairways to heaven torques. Is here that nature leaves behind a human being and to emphasize an important flock of sheep reduces the passage of our progress. We arrived at the Visitors Center. Visitor Center
Given the influx of visitors to El Torcal, officials have organized a system to access it in your post without creating a traffic jam. Not surprisingly, the road is winding and narrow. Thus, when it detects that the car top is complete, there is a parking area at the entrance where visitors can leave your car parked and ascend to El Torcal in a minibus. Comfortable, practical and sustainable. It is not our case since the early hours of the morning that we have allows us to access our own vehicle. We parked and we entered the building Center 
Visitors. Outside, a stone mass more from all around you, perfect camouflage with the environment. The Visitor Center Torcal is recent and as such, meets the needs of the modern traveler. Facilities panels which explain the formation of the Torcal interactive since last Tethys, the work of erosion, the origin of the strange shapes that make up this spectacular environment. It also offers the possibility of playing with representations of food chains 
of flora and fauna, fossils look very very close, and even smell the perfume which exhales the Torcal, rosemary, thyme ... A fifteen minute audiovisual explains Gothic tale as the story of this geological formation so special. By the way, the center also has a restaurant and bar where supplies are available today announces "Paella" in large letters, but there are other delicacies like crumbs, fried eggs with cured ham, homemade cakes and could not miss, Antequera . Once informed, we begin the route. Parkway El Torcal
There are two routes marked. The first one, the Green Road, 1.5 miles away and 45 minutes. Another, the yellow is longer and with a duration of two hours. We chose the former. Before arriving at the Visitors Center and from the parking goes our way, sharing a stage with the other. Torcal combines the delicate forms with outright in a game of surprises continued in which the imagination can create monsters, impossible figures, princesses and warriors helmet upright. Seems frozen silence and appear to move across the corner of his eye the large formations 
r ew. It is a landscape of spells, magical appearance of a stone garden where everything seems possible, a dolmen city where the rocks rise up to become cities, buildings, skyscrapers. We observe, we look at those stone totems. We will walk here on how the fog, in one of those days that are overcast Torcal and shows his scowl, his temper untimely. Hence, appropriate information on the weather forecast before going. Today is a sunny day in autumn sky. When we are at the bottom of this ancient sea 
seems that some 
toothed jaws were to close on us to engulf us. El Torcal is a game of Earth Sciences, perfect for visiting with children, find this place a large playroom. The Green Road is not complicated, layout, and yes of course, is carpeted with stones, so it should stay on track, even with all route is very simple and affordable for almost everyone. And when we think we've covered all the impossible ways, others come in our way as genuine giants, and giants such as polyphosphoric a thousand eyes. Suddenly, on a hill, is cut a figure is not known if human stone or 
until it moves. We walked through the heart between your arteries, among rocks and twisted trees, feeling with our hands, caressing these ancient stones. The route is completed with a visit to the Mirador of the Ladder, a natural balcony from which you can see Colmenar, Casabermeja, the Mediterranean and roofs, distant, of Villanueva de la Concepción. The center
We leave the spindly shapes of El Torcal and began our descent to Villanueva de la Concepción. As if to counter the maze of stone from its natural place, the center of Villanueva de la Concepción has a few blocks long, straight, parallel lines that form each other. Seems to answer this modern layout, the modernity of its constitution as an independent municipality, one hundred and one of the province of Malaga. Villanueva de la Concepción 
until 2009 belonged to the municipality of Antequera. Although the town has a past that goes back to the Neolithic shape as a town has been very recent. "Villanueva de la Concepcion was born as a town on November 3, 1880. In March 1992 it declared a Territorial Entity Below Municipality Area (EATIM), and later, in 2001, be declared Local Autonomous Entity (ELA), starting a final stage in its declaration of municipality. In 2007, the Andalusian recognized their right to segregation of the parent municipality, Antequera, the law becoming effective on 17 March 2009 during a government council in Malaga, which authorized the construction of City Hall, becoming the city 101 Malaga province, and summarizes our recent history wikipedia. We followed the directions 
take us to the parish church of the Immaculate Conception, we parked in the street San Antonio, just five meters from the entrance to the temple. It is a plain building built in the late nineteenth century, bright white walls and topped with a simple gable. The church is built around a single vessel, on whose altar lies a statue of the Immaculate Conception. The altarpiece is neoclassical interior and has an unusual dark color. The streets 
straight, black wrought on the windows and balconies, interior hallways leading up to the houses. Smells like fall with intensity, home-cooked meals flavored and penetrating. It smells of grilled lapilli. We strolled through the quiet streets of Villanueva, quiet and aseadísimas, in perfect magazine. The hum of the everyday grind noise translates into pan, pressure cookers, conversations and greetings, radio, music away. We walked through the streets and there is no possibility of loss. The signs lead us to the Plaza de Andalucia, from the alley of the Wind. The square is the hub of town, where we celebrate the most outstanding events and parties and has seen its banks and orange to more recent history of the town. It has a rectangular structure and the center is an octagonal fountain made with 
red granite. This source is considered as the main water supply point of Villanueva. An explanatory panel helps us to position ourselves and find another of our objectives. Before, we rested a bit. We sat on a bench next to an orange. We let the sun warm, we warm the skin. We see up there, the foothills of the Torcal still fresh in our eyes. Remember their twisted forms and compare them with the righteousness of the source of the corners of the square, the roofs of the houses. We walk down the street to the Plaza Real Caparros Garcia. We witness the explanatory panel underlines: "The square is an idyllic place to spend the long summer evenings in the shadow of the majestic elms that crown. " That we, exchanging summer afternoon autumn morning, come and have a very similar light. A García Plaza Nueva Caparrós streets converge, and Garcia Caparros Youth Campus, which makes it almost obligatory place. In the center of the plaza, a fountain gurgle its murmur of water. Villanueva, after construction of the Camino Real in order of Carlos III and communicated with Madrid Malaga was a strategic communications hub. To improve their access was built three bridges that can be visited by the curious history, are the bridges of the Lion, and Horcajo Cauche stream. Farewell 
Even with the shaking of the warm sun on our backs, we imagine the Torcal. We think and draw in our minds, we go through their drills and their secrets, their twisted alleyways, their dark caves, buildings of gray stone. Torcal sketch like a dream, the relief of its course, the jagged horizon, the roads impossible. Imagine the Tethys Sea, past submerged surface in which we are now. Imagine as Villanueva de la Concepción emerges from the sea wearing that crown on your forehead is your Torcal stone. Useful information and links
El Torcal: Before going you need to check the weather forecast, road access is relatively simple but can be complicated by rain, ice or snow. Armed with a camera and binoculars. Essential to go before starting the path to the Visitor Center to learn and know what we'll see.
Independence Party: On November 3, Villanueva de la Concepcion celebrates the anniversary of his proclamation as rural in 1880. This is one of the most significant events of the town, which goes with the celebration of sports games and a big party. Within the festival program includes a tribute act to the village elders in recognition of his efforts in the establishment of Villanueva de la Concepción village and township.
Bean Day: Villanueva de la Concepción annually produce between one million and a million and a half of beans from each crop, is unacceptable that the town pay tribute to the product with the celebration of the Bean. During the day there are a taste more than 2,000 servings of bean casseroles. The events begin at ten o'clock, when bars offer visitors and residents rations of beans with oil while verdiales music accompanies the participants throughout the day. At noon, the Plaza de Andalucia is transformed in the heart of the party where they provided free of charge these 2,000 servings of bean casseroles listed, accompanied by other gourmet with this ingredient as a major element provided by the bars and taverns. Bean Day is celebrated in April.
Links: We take as reference the website Tourist Board of the Costa del Sol and municipal web page , which add a personal page on Villanueva de la Concepción and other specific El Torcal. This blog is
open to comments, notes, opinions sailors wish to perform. See you in The Color Blue Sky.
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