Classes in Castellano-spanish. Ramón has for 12 years very sucessfully taught spanish at the school Sierra y Mar. We recommend him wholeheartedly to anyone interested in private spanish lessons.

Alpujarra de la Sierra is made up of four villages namely, Yegen El Golco Montenegro. Mecina Bombarón The chief characteristics of its landscape are abrupt contrasts, rough relief and water, which is present in dozens of fountains and washing places. In Montenegro water springs out of the the blue from enourmous rock formations or falls graciously in the form of a cascade through the Gully of the "Chorreras", or runs quietly amongst hundred-year-old chestnut trees. The region has an original and popular architecture. The houses sit on steep hillsides. They have characteristic elements such as "tinaos", chimneys, topped with a slate slab and flat roofs covered with waterproof clay. The villages look south onto the sea as though they were balconies separated by gullies full of lush greenery.

Yegen. Population 750. Height above sea level 1,000 meters. Some 4 km. from Mecina Bombarón we come across the village immortalised by the writer Gerald Brenan. Yegen is internationally famous for being home and main subject matter of this writer´s book entitled "South from Granada". In this work, the British hispanicist goes into an anthropological, cultural, historical and geographical study of the Alpujarra, taking Yegen, its inhabitants and customs, as the centre-piece. A half-century before, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón said of this village that it was "a bunch of flowers and fragrant herbs placed there by a lover in the lap of the white Solair" (Sierra Nevada). The mountains protect the village from the north wind and there are abundant walnut trees, chestnuts and oaks. A small plaque indicates the house where Gerald Brenan once lived. Festivities are held on 1-2nd January (the God Child and the Name of Jesus).

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