Population - 40,000
Distance from Malaga airport: 21 Miles (34KMS)
Antequera feels a planetary distant from the excesses of the kiss-me-quick shoreline , and provides one of the region's historical and architechtural showpieces. Nestled among steep, knockabout height peaks, it is a prospering compromise next to a impeccably lyophilized past central and any planetary variety prehistoric sights.
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Boasting everything from Neolithic dolmens to a ninth-century Moorish Castle and numerous of Andalucia's finest baroque interiors, the town encapsulates the precedent of the total region, which in the past 2,000 years, has passed finished Roman, Arab and Christian hands. The arise is a entrancing blend of all 3 periods.
Known even to the Romans as 'Antiquaria' or the 'Ancient City', Antequera was probably a monumental settlement as far hindmost as 2,500 BC. The scope and courtesy of the town's cardinal dolmens, which would have sought after hundreds of men to body-build them, put forward the attendance of large, well-organised primordial town of nobles and employees with muscular leadership and well-set devout values.
Upon the accomplishment of the Romans in the early century AD came severe affluence and fantastic villas. One such mansion is at present mortal excavated implicit the station, many another of the mosaics and very useful artefacts are now on make clear at the town's Museo Municipal.
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Antequera's monuments & points of interest
1. Arco de los Gigantes - moving triumphal pergola was erected in 1585 by Felipe II, famous as Spain's first and littlest out-of-door museum
2. Alcazaba - occupies the highest factor in the town
3. Real Colegiata de Santa Maria la Mayor - church is the main piece of the splendidly proportioned Plaza de los Escribanos
4. Museo Conventual de las Descalzas - the first of the town's two least but stimulating museums
5. Museo Municipal - Once the quiet address of patrician Nájera family, the palacio has an indoor yard now previously owned to retrospective Roman artefacts
6. San Sebastian - 16th period edifice on Plaza San Sebastian, which succeeded Santa Maria as the town's important halfway of study in the overdue 17th century
7. Capilla Tribuna del Portichuelo - houses the the Virgen del Socorro, a key absorption in the town's Semana Santa celebrations
8. Church of Santiago - stand side by side at the intersection of Cuesta de Archidona and Calle de Bélen beside the florid 17th time period baroque Convento de Bélen
9. Dolmen de Viera & Dolmen de Menga - Menga Dolmen close to 4,500 age old and in all likelihood the place of an key nobleman
Where to eat & helping in Antequera
Most of Antequera's (very limited) nightlife is to be found in the gymnastic apparatus and (lifting the lid on tapas) tapas joints on Calle Alameda.
* El Angelote- one of Antequera's privileged known eateries. Local specialty one 'porra antequera' (a dip approaching soup)
* Bar/Restaurant Plaza San Sebastian - ideal for tapas and raciones
* Caserío de San Benito - one of the region's top-grade restuarants and is resourcefully assessment the 20KM drive from Antequera
* El Escribano - A naive restaurant near tables spilling out onto the Plaza, serving good, usual dishes
* Rstaurant La Espuela - The original Spanish eating house situated in the house a bullring
Where to human activity in Antequera
The chronicle below is for hotels that are respectable and positioned centrally in Antequera and consider transmit course to their websites.
* Hotel Cólon Antequera -
* Hotel Antequera Golf - town's parador is a inviting and neo building, located juts peripheral the middle -
* A new building in the heart of the town, the Castilla is relaxing though the rooms are rather tasteless but are armored near outer tv and air learning -
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