18 Nov, 2022 @ 18:45
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Exploring Spain’s Andalucia from 5,000 years ago

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Photo: Algaba de Ronda

WANT to get an idea what life was like in Andalucia 5,000 years ago?

At the Algaba education centre just outside Ronda, you have the perfect opportunity.

Through its hauntingly realistic prehistoric village you learn about how our forefathers created fire, ground their bread, as well as decorated their homes.

You can even find out what they did with their dead.

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Photo: Algaba de Ronda

“What we offer is a cultural and educational experience enabling visitors to learn more about the ecosystem of Mediterranean land and how it has been used historically,” explains director Maria Sanchez Helena.

“Because this land has been occupied from prehistoric times up to the present day.”

Algaba’s work also includes research and teachings on the geology and ornithology of the area, as well as acting as a rare breeds centre for endangered cows.

These include the Spanish Pajuna – of which there are just 500 left – as well as the Andalucian Cardena, which in the early 1990s had been reduced to just seven individuals.

Thanks to the work of organisations like Algaba, there are now around hundreds of Cardenas.

Guests and groups can also come and stay at the centre’s restored 250-year-old finca.

“It is certainly a place where people can come and get away from it all.”

www.algabaderonda.com

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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