Stone cottage with natural swimming pool in the woods of Andalucia

We stayed at this beautiful stone cottage mid July 2022. It is situated in the middle of the woods, outside Aracena. It offers a very private setting with places with shade throughout the day. You just have to keep moving your chairs to another corner of the garden. We were pleasantly surprised by these corkoaktrees-woods and to see how many birds we could see flying around there such as the many nuthatches, tree-creepers so close and crested tits that joined us in the evening at the pool area. It was one of the perks of this house for us to see and hear so many birds. The naturalpool is very pretty and refreshing too. Do not expect to go swimming but it refreshing and more a place to soak for a few minutes and look down the hill into the green valley. The overflow part of the natural swimming pool attracts all kinds of birds as they come to drink there. it is lovely to sit there for a while and just observe and enjoy the wildlife. We even saw a fox one of these evenings up at the pool. The many plumbtrees seem to provide food for the blue tits, interesting to see them eat there. And then there are the 2 horses strolling by in the distacne now and then, a reassuring sight as well. The house is quite large for just the 2 of us and we used little of it; the living room only to watch the Tour de France a few times . It was mostly the kitchen we used. The kitchen is quite large too and well equipped. We managed to keep the house , which is without airco, cool enough by opening all windows and doors in the house and in our bedroom in the evening to let the cooler breeze in, but not until it has cooled down outisde. I cannot tell whether this would work in the smaller rooms. There are plenty of towns or villages to see and there are plenty of walks in the vicinity. And the supermarkets are close by on the outskirts of Aracena. Carmen speaks good enough English to communicate with you. She will come 2x a week for maintenance of the natural pool but she will let you know when that is. She was most kind and we thoroughly enjoyed are stay here."

The house was nice and authentic. The owner was very friendly The pool was a little bit of a let down as there are a lot of wasps around We loved the garden with beautiful trees"

Fantastic rural setting that suited our love of nature. The owner, Carmen was just as welcoming and helpful as before. Some members of my party found the beds uncomfortable, however I slept well!"