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Granada, 22nd May 2012
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10 things you can not miss in Granada

7. To Sleep in House-Cave

To sleep in a house cave is an experience that allows the visitor to submerge completely in the culture and the form of life of more than 3,000 families from Granada.

Excavated in the Earth, these houses are a great example of the integration of the man with the nature and the landscape.<BR><br>The accommodation in caves is typical of the Guadix and the Marquesado regions, in Baza-Huescar: The Plateau, and in the Granada’s neighbourhood of the Sacromonte. About thirty establishments are regulated and catalogued like tourist accommodation in caves. The common denominator of all of them is the service of quality and the respect to the environment. In them the guest will feel like at home, because all of them have the comforts of a tourist accommodation of quality. <BR><br>Each one of the caves is different from the others and in them it is possible to observe how the popular architecture adapts to the characteristics of the environment where they are. The hard and parched soil that, without offering resistance to be excavated, are compact and waterproof provide cool stays in summer and warm stays in winter.<BR><br>To stay in a house cave is to participate in the recovery and conservation of one of more peculiar constructive and architectonic traditions of Europe.



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