Travel Tales with Fergal is a interview travel series listened to in over 130 countries worldwide where Irishman Fergal O'Keeffe chats to a special guest about their travels, adventures and experiences living abroad. We talk about travel, history, culture, people, food, politics, tourism and expat lives.
Fergal has a lifelong love of travel. He loves going on adventures and dreaming and planning of future trips. He brings his natural curiosity and passion when interviewing a wide range of guests from the arts, sports, journalism, business, travel professionals and adventurers. Fergal hope these chats inspire you to dream of future travel adventures like they have inspired him.
He can be found on Instagram and Facebook @traveltaleswithfergal and twitter @fergaltravel
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Travel Tales with Fergal is a interview travel series listened to in over 130 countries worldwide where Irishman Fergal O'Keeffe chats to a special guest about their travels, adventures and experiences living abroad. We talk about travel, history, culture, people, food, politics, tourism and expat lives.
Fergal has a lifelong love of travel. He loves going on adventures and dreaming and planning of future trips. He brings his natural curiosity and passion when interviewing a wide range of guests from the arts, sports, journalism, business, travel professionals and adventurers. Fergal hope these chats inspire you to dream of future travel adventures like they have inspired him.
He can be found on Instagram and Facebook @traveltaleswithfergal and twitter @fergaltravel
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is my 100th episode and I wanted to make it a very special episode, so I am delighted to have Christina Ybarra of Palacio Portocarrero in Palma del Rio, Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain.
Christina's story is a story of Andalusia taking in Roman, Moorish and Christian heritage, history, archaeology, architecture, culture and art.
Palma del Rio is a town with the most stunning countryside surrounded by orange groves between Seville and Cordoba once called “the garden of Andalucia” by a visiting Spanish King.
The Cordoba Region
Most tourists go to the cities like Seville, Cordoba, Granada and Malaga but there are small villages and towns between these cities are real gems full of character including Carmona and Ecija, Alcalá de Guadaíra, Cazalla de la Sierra, Almodovar del Rio, Palma Del Rio and Montilla.
The region is made for a road trip through fields filled with olive and orange grove and vineyards and many beautiful villages with old Moorish Alcazar forts and palaces in the Sierra Morena mountains.
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Activities
Palacio Portcarrero
Almodovar Del Rio – Old Moorish Castle to visit from Games of Thrones
Montilla – Visit to local winery Alvear 1729
Wine tasting at Bodegas Colonias de Galeón
Stargazing activity (Sierra Morena is a certified Starlight Destination)
El Viso del Alcor - Olive oil tasting at Basilippo
Cycling along the Sierra Morena Greenway, which is part of the upgraded Camino Vertical
Cordoba
Once one of main cities in the ancient Arab world with one of the most famous mosques to rival Mecca – The Mesquita
Food Cordoba
Dinner at Taberna La Viuda
Lunch at La Cazuela de la Esparteria
Stays
Cordoba - Hotel Mezquita Center
Cazalla de la Sierra - Casa Rural Las Navezuelas
Alcalá de Guadaíra - Hotel Oromana
How to get there
Fly with Aer Lingus from Cork and Dublin to Seville
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