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What to do and where to go

What to do and where to go when you are on holiday in Polopos? Walking trails can be found all over the Contraviesa and the Alpujarra, so hiking is the first thing that comes to mind. But where do you go to buy the best jamon in the area? What are the best restaurants? Which beaches are the most beautiful? Are there museums that you can visit and how far is it to de nearest shopping mall or city? Find your answers here, where we will continue to add more locations and opportunities to have a good time.


What makes the Alpujarra special

The History of the Alpujarra

from prehistoric times up to the bronze age

Architecture of the Alpujarra

flat roofs, mushroom chimneys and Berber roots


 
 

 Art Asociation Polopos and our
Artist in Residency Program

 
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Spanish Cooking Workshops and more

 
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In 2021 Wijnand published a Spanish cookbook with renowned Dutch publishing company Luitingh Sijthoff. Ever since his walking journey through fourteen European countries he has been fascinated by recipes that belong to the gastronomical national canons. Wijnand was a guest in almost 300 households and was often treated to traditional home cooked meals like burek in the Balkans, various regional pasta specialties in Italy, or boeuf Bourguignon in France. In Spain he tasted over 40 tortillas and found out that not everyone in Spain knows how to make one, or at least, that there are many different family traditions and not all were equally satisfying to his taste.

Looking up recipes on the internet wasn’t of much help to find a definitive one. When Thysa and Wijnand moved to Spain in 2019 he started researching recipes like the tortilla Española, asking neighbors and chefs that he met and reading a lot of Spanish cookbooks. The 80 recipes in his own cookbook are the result of this research. In it you will not only find his definitive tortilla Española recipe, but also some very local specialties and famous dishes like paella Valenciana, pimientos de Padron, Xato, tarta de Santiago and many others. At the moment his cookbook is only available in Dutch, but he hosts cooking workshops in Casa 3 where everyone can learn the techniques and idiosyncracies of Spanish cooking and taste the true Spanish cuisine.

Go to our page about Spanish Cooking to book a workshop, buy the book or find blogs with recipes and other information about Spanish cooking!.