Canete la Real....again!

I know....another village, another castle. But I don't know how we missed this one on our previous visit to Canete in August last year. Anyway, after visiting the convent we arrived back here with the intention of having a couple of tapas and a beer. Anne had fish in tomato sauce and mine was chicken liver......delicious.
The picture is of the walk from the Town Hall square up the street leading to the castle.

Views of the village.



















The castle was quite impressive, parts of which had been restored and the rest still undergoing restoration.
View's below looking from the ramparts and towards the restored tower, which unfortunately was locked up, possibly as it was a weekend.








Linked posts:
Canete La Real Part 1

Canete La Real Part 2






More information on Canete can be found in the link below. Definitely worth a visit.

http://servicios.diariosur.es/fijas/pueblos/ingles/canetei.htm

Canete La Real Part 2

Just a few more pics. one of "Vulture Rock". Must go back sometime and take my binoculars.

Linked posts:

Canete La Real Part 1

Canete la Real....again!

Canete La Real Part 1

On the road back from Campillos we pulled off left to Canete La Real, for no other reason than we had never been there before and because time was our own.

On the road we stopped the car and got out to watch a flock of circling vultures, about twelve to fifteen birds. A car came past tooting his horn and the chap inside shouting something in Spanish and making gestures with his hand. We thought nothing of it, got back into the car and carried on.

Just before the village ther was a large granite rock on our right hand side about 300 metres away and approximately 100 metres high. Anne said "stop the car, stop the car". We got out and lining the top of the rock were forty or fifty vultures, a tremendous site. At that point a lorry approached from the opposite direction, again the driver making hand gestures and shouting "Peligro, peligro" plus a few other spanish words. He turned off into the village so we checked our trusty dictionary. Peligro means Danger/At risk so the previous car driver and the lorry driver had been trying to warn us to stay in the car as presumably the vultures were none too friendly. Funny......I thought they only feasted on dead carcasses!!

Anyway, a few pics of the vultures and the lovely village.

Linked posts:

Canete La Real Part 2

Canete la Real....again!