{"id":69,"date":"2009-08-18T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-08-18T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T15:15:12","slug":"antequera-andalucia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/antequera-andalucia\/","title":{"rendered":"Antequera Andalucia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to get away from the busy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/costa-del-sol.html\" target=\"_blank\">Costa del Sol<\/a> coastline whilst holidaying in the region you might try heading to one of the inland cities of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/andalucia.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andalucia<\/a> and one which may interest you is Antequera, located about 47 km north of Malaga. Best known for its large Bronze Age dolmens (burial mounds) which date from the third century BC, it also has many historic remains from the Moorish occupation including city walls and an ancient castle. Often called \u201cthe heart of Andalucia\u201d, Antequera now has over 40,000 inhabitants and is the largest municipality in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/malaga.html\" target=\"_blank\">Malaga<\/a> province, industry includes furniture, olives, wool, grain and of course tourism. Places to visit include the Palace of Najera, the Real Colegiata de Santa Maria la Mayor, the bullring, the Fuente de Piedra salt lagoon, the Torcal nature reserve and \u201cLover\u2019s Rock\u201d, subject of an interesting legend. The Bronze Age dolmens extend underground for sixty five feet. The\u00a0weather in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/antequera-weather.html\" target=\"_blank\">Antequera<\/a> is predominantly dry and sunny, with rainfall among the lowest in the region. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/antequera-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Antequera Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to get away from the busy Costa del Sol coastline whilst holidaying in the region you might try heading to one of the inland cities of Andalucia and one which may interest you is Antequera, located about 47 km north of Malaga. Best known for its large Bronze Age dolmens (burial mounds) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,18,7],"tags":[53,87,1095,88,1084],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}