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| The rolling hills,1000
- 3000ft of the Sierra de Aracena, 100 kms north west
of Seville, provide perfect riding country. Tracks connect
the pretty white villages. These broad caminos offer companionable
riding through a great variety of landscape. Lush secret
valleys, past abandoned farms lost in tangles of aromatic
cistus and rock roses. Along the high ridges with far
distant views of hills crowned with Templar castles or
remains of the C10th Moorish Calipate.
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Spring
comes early this far south. The mimosas, cherries and
the first of the wild narcissi in February. Peonies and
lavender soon follow and the villages fill with the heady
scent of jasmine and orange trees. Autumn
is the time of the sweet chestnut harvest, a blaze of
changing colours with a gourmet's feast of wild mushrooms
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| Hermione Tudor,
has lived in the sierra since 1989. The sierra is home for
her family and she has a great affinity with the area.
The horses are her own, many of them bred and broken on the
farm. Fit strong Andaluz cross breds, 15 - 16.2hh, forward
going and sure footed, ridden in comfortable vaquero tack
(similar to western), they are well behaved and responsive
mounts. |
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