Valle del Guadalhorce Voyage Tips and guide

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Valle del Guadalhorce is a region in the Province of Malaga, Andalucia, Spain. The Valle del Guadalhorce is a natural region formed by the Guadalhorce River. The valley is characterized by its fertility and the cultivation of vegetables, fruit trees and citrus, and is known as the "garden of Malaga".

• 36.658863-4.7570121 Coín — most important town in the area
• 36.661838-4.5649932 Alhaurín de la Torre
• 36.633056-4.6830563 Alhaurín el Grande
• 36.826764-4.5367144 Almogía
• 36.823226-4.7020125 Álora — a typical pueblo blanco, a whitewashed village nestled between three rocky spurs topped by the ruins of the castle
• 36.711252-4.6305726 Cártama
• 36.765663-4.7084927 Pizarra
• 36.933868-4.6810378 Valle de Abdalajís

In the Guadalhorce Valley there is a great pottery tradition. The Guadalhorce Valley Ceramics Association has ceramists with great experience and curriculum, who work to keep the traditional ceramics of this area alive, and to innovate with different techniques and styles.

The Ethnographic Museum "Las Vistillas, Coín rural life" , which shows the history of the Guadalhorce Region during the 20th century.

It enjoys very good communications through the A-357 highway and the commuter train that link the Costa del Sol to the Guadalhorce-Guadalteba Reservoir Natural Area.

The railway line that arrives from Seville, Córdoba, and Madrid stops at Álora, Pizarra and Cártama enbroute to Malaga. It is one of the busiest lines in Spain through which dozens of daily trains pass, including the AVE high-speed train.

The A-357 motorway from Campillos to Malaga, also known as the Guadalhorce motorway, connects, at the inter-county level, the population centres that settle along the valley.

The regional highway A-366, also known as Carretera de Coín, crosses from Churriana to Coín, becoming a crossing when crossing Alhaurín de la Torre and Alhaurín el Grande.

The Málaga Area Metropolitan Transport Consortium operates intercity and urban bus routes.

• 36.741085-4.6307371 Posada Los Cántaros (Hotel Los Cantaros), 29569 - Sierra de Gibralgalia (30 km NW of Malaga (A-357) towards Cártama and Casapalina), ☏ +-33-952423563. Charming rural hotel near Malaga with fantastic hill-top views over the surrounding countryside. from € 120.