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Camping Órgiva is the perfect base for your visit to La Alpujarra in Spain’s Granada

NESTLED in the heart of La Alpujarra, with easy access to amenities and beautiful scenery, Camping Órgiva is the ideal destination for those wanting to visit

1 Oct, 2022 @ 16:08

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Photographer in Spain’s Órgiva, Franc Enskat, is launching his new portrait project

TIRELESSLY capturing the most eccentric characters in and around Órgivan is a favourite task for Franc Enskat, a German/French photographer who moved to the area

24 Sep, 2022 @ 12:15

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Coming To Alpujarra Jo Intro Capileira From Sendero Sulayr

Following the footsteps of Lorca: Meet three women authors inspired by Spain’s Alpujarras

Three amazing women authors of La Alpujarra talk to Jo Chipchase about their lives and latest works

17 Aug, 2022 @ 10:30

Granada·La Cultura·Lead

Freya’s style tips: How to dress to impress during Spain’s fiesta season

WITH the holiday month of August upon us, Spain’s party season is in full swing. From pool parties to dub parties to town fiestas, where

31 Jul, 2022 @ 12:00

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Orgiva: What makes this Spanish town in La Alpujarra ‘the world’s best place to live’?

RAUL Orellana, an ex-primary school teacher and PP politician, became mayor of Orgiva in 2019, taking the helm of ‘the world’s best’ town, set in

26 Jun, 2022 @ 08:15

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From Moors to modern hub: A look at the illustrious history of La Alpujarra in southern Spain

THE Alpujarra was originally inhabited by Phoenicians and Romans, the latter who introduced the system of acequias to channel water from snow melt into fields

18 Jun, 2022 @ 15:45

Granada·Lead·Olive Press Travel

IS IT HIM?: Family fear mystery skull and skeleton found in Granada, southern Spain, could be missing Brit

EXCLUSIVE By Elena Gocmen Rueda and Jo Chipchase

18 Feb, 2022 @ 13:45

Granada·Lead·Must Read

Chris Stewart’s Driving Over Lemons to be made into TV comic drama about misadventures in southern Spain

HIS books recounting the trials and tribulations of living off-plan in southern Spain’s Alpujarras have enthralled and inspired readers across the globe and now Chris

26 Jan, 2022 @ 09:30

Granada·La Cultura·Lead

Viable alternative: A look at the ‘hippy’ communities around Orgiva in Spain’s Alpujarras

Forget mystery skulls, the Madeleine McCann prime suspect and expat extraditions, Orgiva’s celebrated alternative community is bustling and counts cultural links to Robert Graves, Genesis,

2 Jan, 2022 @ 10:30

Granada·Lead

EXCLUSIVE: Skull found at alternative community near Orgiva, in Granada, is now being investigated in Sevilla

IT was during a short walk with her dog before taking the kids to school that an expat got the shock of her life. The

25 Nov, 2021 @ 15:01

Granada·Lead

Green and grumpy in the Glastonbury of Spain

I LONG had a feeling Christian Brueckner – the current prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann mystery – would have links to Orgiva, with its

17 Oct, 2021 @ 12:00

Lead·National News

3 bedroom Finca/Country House for sale in Orgiva – € 345,000

Finca/Country House Orgiva, Granada 3 beds 2 baths € 345,000 A beautiful modern three bedroom country house with a pool, and land, located

30 Sep, 2021 @ 13:07

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Maddie McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner filmed laughing and joking as he drove through Spain just weeks before little girl vanished

FOOTAGE has emerged of Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner driving a battered VW campervan across Spain soon before the little girl disappeared. The convicted sex-offender

1 Aug, 2020 @ 18:47

Lead·National News

LONG READ: Hanging with Andalucia’s most notorious hippie commune to see if they spread more than peace and love

Following last month’s police raid on a long-time hippy colony near Granada, the Olive Press sent Jed Neill to discover whether these New Age veterans

14 Oct, 2017 @ 13:28

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