CASA RURAL MAQUILA

If you leave the motorway at the exit of Terra Mitica, once we have passed through the village of Nucía, andalusia a double curve surprising, unique, the beautiful landscape of white people, situated in the Oasis of the Costa Blanca, between different shades of green, at the foot of Mount Ponoch, known as the "sleeping lion".



Thus, among orchards, we get closer to the population and we move into the streets. They retain traces of its past as the rest of the Navy, was a strategic place where the legendary warlord rebelled Al-Zaraq against James I, after the conquest of the town.



In one of its streets, the Calle Mayor 27, we find a host that will serve as "base" in our visit to the area: the house "manufacturing."



The cottage is a traditional village house, completely refurbished and retaining its original flavor. In the house are preserved wooden beams, which can be seen even where the nails were hung the delicious sausages, still made by the craftsmen of the place and in the dining room near the stove, still hear rumors conversations and laughter of the women, who once met to work there.



Thick walls, small windows overlooking both sides of the house, attic, walls white decor that unites ancient and modern ... a real home town, family friendly and quiet in the past hosted couples newlyweds who installed his first home there and kept family pictures.



The owners, James and Toni, married with two daughters were waiting for us on arrival and show us the best places for "tapas" and the restaurants with typical cuisine of the area. We may enjoy include: DACSA piles of farina, farcides cokes, Olleta of blat, mintxos, pebreretes in sangacho, arròs in fressols i naps and dessert: medlars, honey cakes and traditional crafts of all flavors.



We can advise on tours and activities. Are missed, the architectural legacy: the Parish Church of 1723, the Shrine of the Holy Cross and Aurora with ceramics of the eighteenth century and the remains of the ramparts of the ancient fortress, and where the cemetery is located thereafter ( "Garden of Crosses" immortalized by Gabriel Miró) Arab archaeological remains, evidence remains of Iberian and still craft traditional mud with Joseph Potter and the museum of the wire. The Source of the Province, fed by pure spring water, we are cool with 221 pipes, one for each village in the province.