Country Villa for sale in Las Lomas, Alhaurin El Grande

COSTA DEL SOL, ANDALUCIA, SPAIN

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Las Lomas is an exclusive area situated some 5 minutes drive from the towns of Alhaurin El Grande and Coin and only 25 minutes from the coast. The area benefits from unspoilt countryside with stunning views of the Sierra Nevada/Sierra de Mijas mountains and the Guadalhorce valley. Within easy driving distance are golf courses, riding schools, numerous restaurants and bars.

Nearby historic and thriving Alhaurin El Grande has an international community of Spanish, English and other European residents. The town offers a very good range of shops, builders' merchants, garden centres, schools, medical facilities and other services. 

The town has a number of festivals and celebrations including a carnival celebrated in February, and the Crosses in May with processions, religious performances and traditional flower arrangements around the figure of the Holy Cross. From the 24th to the 28th of May festivities include various recreational activities, the pilgrimage to Vallehermoso, and the release of young bulls through the town. As well as the festival of San Antón which includes sporting competitions, horse exhibitions, and open air dancing, the Easter celebrations are the most significant with large and colourful processions through the town.

Historic places of interest
The most important monuments are the parish church of Church of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación (Our Lady of the Incarnation), built at the beginning of the 16th century over the site of a fort, with various modifications in the 18th and 19th century. The county council, in the Plaza de la Constitución, occupies the old site of the convent-hospital of Santa Catalina, where the palace of Montellano is located.

Other places of notable interest are the archaological sites and remains of Arabic origin such as the old fort of Fahala, the watchtower of Ubrique, Roman remains in the Fuente del Sol, and the fifteenth century Moor mill of the Corchos (Molino Morisco). The mill is one of the few examples of traditional water-powered mills which still exists in the province of Malaga. It was used for flour milling, and later to mill cork to provide insulating material for the exportation of grapes. Today the Mill has reverted to a flour mill using power produced by the water from an irrigation ditch that is supplied by the Fahala river. On the road to Mijas, there is the chapel of the Cristo de la Agonía, dating from the 18th century, and at the edge of the Coín to Málaga road is the fountain of the Doce Caños or Fuente Lucena.