My Wednesday Walk “Fuentes de Cesna” Loja - Granada, Spain

Hi all 😊

With this post I’m joining in at the Wednesday Walk challenge and Make me Smile challenge. That are hosted by @tattoodjay and @elizacheng every week on Wednesday.

Today I want to share with you my Walk together with the Walking group from Iznajar I was part of when I was living in Iznajar in 2015.
This walk is from 28 February 2015.

(Part of our group and yes, I’m the youngest. 😉 Mostly expats but also some locals joined us for many walks, each weekend. )

This walk takes us from the old abandoned village of Fuentes de Cesna up to the site of a Neolithic village overlooking the lake of Iznajar.
7,25 km distance - 3:02 duration - elevation during the walk 311m

More information you find Here (Spanish) and Here (Spanish)

Translated a bit of it for you here and made it easier to read / changed some parts;

Granada's rural heritage is impressive. Many of its treasures are disappearing even from collective memory. The old town of Fuentes de Cesna, or "Fuentes Viejas" / “Despoblado de Cesna” as it is known in this part of Granada is an example of this and it was totally abandoned. A new town was later created with a population of 480 inhabitants.

The Fuentes de Cesna is near the Iznájar reservoir, and is a hamlet of Algarinejo. It was a picturesque village, famous for its springwater, to which many neighbours still come to fill their cans.

Currently "Fuentes Viejas" the old town, belongs to the Cesna Cultural Park, an organisation that aims to protect and value the ethnographic and historical elements of this place.
The town/ruins has become a charming place full of magic and mystery. There where the vegetation and trees have grown wild, invading houses and alleys. The enclave has been transformed into a magnificent viewpoint to spend the afternoon chatting, in good company and exploring the area.

Let me show you my walk now and what I saw along the way 😊

We started here passing ruins of the old village.

With views towards the Iznajar Lake / embalsa.

I encountered also some animals on our route. Like this cute donkey.

When we passed he looked once more and I captured his gaze…

As we walk further we see beautiful olive trees, some are quite old, as you can see.

If you look closely to the rocks, you see one of the cave dwellings. Not sure if that was a house. Can you see it?

More lake views as we progress our walk. And the layers and layers of mountains in the distance.

A little bit further we can see the small white village of Iznajar appearing. I lived in the campo/ countryside of it. About half an hour drive to the village itself with my Classic mini over winding mountain roads.

Zoomed in a bit. It was a hazy day as you can see…

Below us we see old farmhouses with their main production be olives.

Views further along.

We are entering the area of the Neolithic village now, and the views from it.

Ruins and olive trees.

Mountain views.

Little flowers along the way, they are early as it is just February.

Winding roads further.

You can see the village now, and it’s cave houses if you look closely.

Some almond trees along the way.

The village:

Overgrown gardens with trees, cacti… the cave houses just to be discovered if you look closely in pathways between the plants.

Old farmhouses.

We walk further and I see another animal: a mule.

Again when we pass by it, it was curious and looked at us till we were not seen anymore.

Bye bye… 👋🏻

We are seeing more ruins this way.

With almond and olive trees blossoming.

We are passing these signs now.

Another view at almost the end of our walk.

With this last one looking back at the route we walked, I want to end my #WednesdayWalk and #Makemesmile… post.

Hope you enjoyed my photographs of this beautiful area of Spain 🤩

Thank you for looking and reading😊 and if you liked my post, an upvote or re-blog is always welcome 🙏🏻
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Have a great Wednesday all 😎
Grtz Jackie

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