A Moorish inspired Andalusian oasis
Albuñol, Granada, Costa Tropical, Spain
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Description
The house is situated in the town of Albuñol in the Province of Granada in Andalusia.
Sleeping arrangements:
The house is basically designed to accommodate 8 adults. Extra beds for children can be set up in both the suites and grotto room.
The beds are distributed as follows:
Suites (2 separate rooms) 1 four-poster double bed and one double sofa bed
Grotto room: 1 four-poster double bed
Library: 1 double bed
Other rooms:
Setwan, Salon, kitchen/dining area, Boabdil’s room and 2 bathrooms with showers.
Hamam (pool), terrace, tea salon, the green room and the star terrace.
Kitchen facilities:
Stove, oven, dishwasher, washing machine, refrigerator, freezer and dumb waiter.
Cooling:
The thick walls of the house keep it cool. Also, the first floor is cooled by means of 8 large ceiling fans. We’ve deliberately avoided air conditioning as this type of cold does not regulate body temperature in a natural way. If you are sweating too much in the summer heat, do as the Moors did. Take a dip in our hamam, and after 5 minutes your body temperature will be regulated even though it is 35 degrees C.
Technical:
Wireless Internet connection.
Services included in the price for up to 4 persons:
Half hour’s light cleaning of the kitchen, bath and terraces
Pool service
Use of gas
Free Internet
Licence or registration number: CTC 2018077959
Sleeping facilities
Rooms and Facilities
pets are allowed by agreement
swimming pool
Wifi
garden
terrace
dishwasher
washing machine
balcony
crib
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sleeping facilities
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Outdoor area
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Arrival/Location
Arrival and distances
beach 5 km
5 km
lake 80 km
80 km
ski lift over 50 km
over 50 km
131 km
105 km
2 km
Location and surroundings of object
The town of Albuñol forms the gateway to the Las Alpujarras mountain-range, where passages from the legends of Granada Province beckon the traveller into the melancholy mirage created by small white houses which dance like pearls on the slate landscape’s almond-scented rocky ridges.
The history of the House of the Blue Shadows can be traced back to the Moorish period, the Sultanate of Alhambra, palace of myths, where its origins are lost in the mists of time.
With its 400 cubic metres, the “house with the tower” thrusts its spire towards the glittering blue heavens.
The innocent outer walls hide their own universe, a private refuge which offers a firework-display of poetry and luxury.
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Advice by the landlord
| security deposit: | 300 € |
| rental deposit: | 25 % |
Cancellation terms:
- A booking is regarded as having been made from the day it is done via e-mail. A deposit of 25% of the total rental, plus an amount of EUR 300 as security to cover possible damage to property and inventory caused by the renter, must be paid latest 7 days after this date. This amount will be repaid to the renter, after the deduction of electricity consumption and possible costs to cover damage have been deducted, latest 14 days after the termination of the rental period. The remainder of the rent must be paid latest 45 days before arrival at the house. Payment must be made through an international credit card or bank transfer. Cancellations: If a valid booking is cancelled, the deposit of 25% of the rent is forfeit. If the cancellation is made after payment of the full rental amount, the full rental amount will be forfeit. Arrival and departure days: A rental period starts 16.00 on a Saturday and ends at 10.00 in the morning of the Saturday the rental period ends. If you have other requirements, we will do our best to accommodate them. The final agreement will be made by e-mail latest 45 days before arrival.
additional information:
GATEWAY TO THE MOUNTAINS
Albuñol is a Granadan town situated 5 km from the Mediterranean coast. On the surface it does not look much different from many other Andalusian towns, and today, its glorious past is surely also forgotten by almost everyone apart from the local citizens.
To the newly-arrived driver, there are perhaps only two roads which look safe and appealing. All the other roads in the town are small and narrow, and more suited to pedestrians and donkeys than to cars. Therefore, many people will just hurry on up the mountain where the air is fresh and the views spectacular.
If, however, you are the type that takes pleasure in adventure and real people, and would like to enjoy your tapas together with genuine Andalusian mountain peasants, you’ve really come to the right place. On this point in particular the town sets itself apart from the masses.
Where most of the other white towns in the Alpujarras mountain landscape are lovely and so-called “unspoilt” on the surface, a closer look will reveal that the younger generation usually move away to seek their fortunes in the big cities. That’s not how it is in Albuñol. Here, young and old live together for good and ill, as they’ve done for centuries. It’s therefore not wrong to call the town a time-capsule, and by staying here a while, you can almost get the impression that you are in a sort of living museum, or in a black and white film of one of Hemmingway’s Spanish tales.
Now I’m sure that any travel writer would already have started reeling off a list praising the town’s few historic monuments. I, however, would urge the traveler to take his or her time in the town’s squares and bars. It is truly all here, so sneak quietly in. Palm trees, the scent of jasmine, overpowering bourgonvillas and hanging gardens with flowering geraniums. There is also a fine church, which in its time was built over a mosque, and small, crooked streets – but all towns have those. Most of all, a multi-cultural scene opens up before one’s eyes. Even though you don’t quite sense it to start with, the town is in the midst of a quiet upheaval where a number of immigrants has moved into some of the old houses.
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last updated on: 08/09/2023
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Company House of the Blue Ray
M. Wulff
We are a family of four (Morten and Berit and our two daughters Inez and Isabel). We bought our house in 2006 and refurbished it until 2011, which w also the time we could welcome our first guests in the House of the Blue Ray. We rent out the house when we do not use it ourselves. Morten has a wine import and shop and Berit is a professor in epidemiology at the Copenhagen University. You can read more about our house at We knew nothing about either Andalusia or Spain when one sunny afternoon in 2006 we rented a car in Malaga. Yes I’d read Hemmingway and his ilk in the distant past. I’d actually also paid a flying visit to the Costa del Sol, but that was pretty hazy in my memory when we set off in the rented car, a Nissan Micra that was so small that my knees were scrunched up into the steering wheel. The purpose of our journey was to find a cheap retreat – it should just be situated in a better climate than that we were familiar with in Denmark. A rather ordinary dream I would imagine, a paradox, something I’d always dreamed of but at the same time had associated with ageing millionaires who loved to idle away their time seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Had we – without knowing it – undergone the classic transformation from young idealists to elderly eccentrics, who were now only waiting to drink ourselves to death on a sun-dappled terrace? Were we preparing a life where the high-point of the day would be the obligatory “sundowner”, where complaints about idle Spaniards would intermingle with marital discord, I wondered. We would end up much wiser over the next four years! The discussions certainly became more intense and wide-ranging. After having traipsed around with various obscure estate agents along the Andalusian East Coast for some days, we ended up in a small, forgotten hamlet called Albuñol. We’d been “on the road” non-stop and were getting tired, but that day in particular, we felt an air of expectancy; we were sure that it would be a fantastic day. At the appointed place we were met by a middle-aged Englishwomen with dark circles under her eyes. She was going to show us that favourite house we’d chosen on the Internet. It looked so enchanting on the screen, I can tell you. But, but, but … as so often happens, in reality it was somewhat different from the romantic picture that we’d been captivated by on the net while we drank Rioja from Aldi. The place turned out to be a ruin. The residents of the house, a large flock of racing pigeons, disappeared noisily through an open window when we entered through one of the doors which was still just able to hang on its hinges. On the floor there was a solid mountain of pigeon guano about a metre high. We were suddenly very disappointed. In spite of everything, we still tried to remain optimistic… -We suppose there are other old houses in this town? – Yes I can show you another house, it was put on the market only 3 days ago, she said with her deep alcohol-ravaged voice, whilst wanly trying to smile at us in a customer-friendly way. The house was a gigantic ancient building in the historic centre of the town, La Plaza. The name oozed poetry, Casa Frederico, the name of the mythological martyred poet from Granada, Fredericio García Lorca. He’s surely written into the annals of this house, I thought. With its many labyrinthine passages and small rooms the house was much more than a house. It was a micro-universe, a town-within-a-town.I’ll spare you the details of how Casa Frederico was slowly transformed. But, from being a mysterious, barrack-like, semi-ruin, it has been resurrected to its former glory. Like a phoenix, it has rediscovered its proud character as our Carmen Del Rayo Azul, or the House of the Blue Shadows, as we chose to christen it. Andalucia.dk has two purposes.One to attract people who’d like to experience a unique tour round the Granadan mountain landscape and who also wish to feel poetry and melancholy by renting the House of the Blue Shadows. I thank you for your interest and hope you will feel well at ease with my bulls, gypsies, poets, Moorish mercenaries, horses, Columbus, bandoleros, cynics, market gardeners, the unlucky Sultan Boabdil, illegal immigrants and ordinary mountain farmers. Welcome to Europe’s farthest border, welcome to Las Alpujarras – the grassland or Al-Busherat as the Moors called the mountains around the House of the Blue Shadows. Yours sincerely Morten Wulff and Berit Heitmann
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Last updated: 06.09.2023
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