With its stunning historical monuments, Moorish castle, excellent and traditional restaurants, many fiestas and events you will experience a taste of traditional Spain.
Antequera is the perfect base from which to explore the major cities of Andalucia; Granada, Seville, Cordoba, Malaga and Ronda, all of them ancient towns with their own special place in history.
The white villages surrounding Antequera offer a glimpse of life from a bygone age, where the pace is slow and evenings can be passed in tranquil plazas. The town and valley are overlooked by an enormous crag of limestone, 880 metres high, called La Peña de los Enamorados, or "The Lover's Leap". The name comes from a local legend about an impossible love affair between a young Christian man from Antequera and a beautiful Moorish girl from nearby Archidona, who were driven to the top of the cliff by the Moorish soldiers, where, rather than renounce their love, they chose to hurl themselves into the abyss. One of Antequera's most impressive sights is its dolmens, located in a park to the west of the town, the most spectacular of which is the Cueva de la Menga. These megalithic mass tombs, made of huge slabs of rock, were created by the original Iberian people and date back 5,000 years. There are many such dolmens in Andalucía, but none as large as the Cueva de la Menga. When it was excavated in the nineteenth century, many hundreds of skeletons were found in its inner chamber.
 Surrounding Antequera is rich farmland, one of Andalucia's most fertile areas, producing asparagus, cereals and olives. In the summer the fields are full of sunflowers. El Torcal Natural Park
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