Casa Cascada
Casa Cascada is an utterly comfortable, spacious and luxurious country house. The views from its terraces and the romantic pool area are stunning. Its location in the El Torcal area enables you to explore the many interesting historic cities in this region or to make great hikes in the famous El Torcal Natural Park. A fabulous place to relax or explore the area, or to relax at the pool and enjoy the comfort of this house, the peace and quiet and the amazing views.
2-4 persons
| Casa Cascada is a Cortijo (farmhouse) that recently has been carefully restored. It has been made into a beautiful and utterly comfortable country house. This cortijo is nestled in the authentic Andalusian countryside, close to a white village, yet at only a 30 minutes drive from Malaga airport. |
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| It is named Casa Cascada (‘ cascade ’) after a small waterfall that softly sprinkles along the stone wall of the rear patio. Casa Cascada lies in a beautiful landscaped garden, with palms, fig and olive trees. It offers sweeping views of El Torcal National Park. Here you can make wonderful walks in breathtaking nature. |
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| The well designed pool area is where you will live most of the summer. It has a covered patio with a wonderful daybed for a lazy nap, a large gas barbecue, an outdoor dining table for your al fresco dining and sun lounges. |
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| The living room is literally flooded with light. The double height ceiling enhances the pleasant experience of spaciousness. It has a comfortable sitting area with some couches and armchairs grouped together. The owner is a true artist, thus you will find lots of lovely paintings throughout the house. |
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| A marvellous place is the corner with the fire place and sitting area. On an occasional cloudy day it is lovely to light a fire, curl up on the sofa, and read a book or watch a good movie. |
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| The owners have created a true home away from home for you to enjoy, full of beautiful art, furniture and all the little extra touch that make it a real home. |
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| Throughout the house you will encounter lovely small details, that demonstrate the great care the owners have taken in making this house feel like a home. In the house you will find lots of map books, and some useful info on what to see and do. |
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| On an occasionally colder evening it is a joy to dine in the indoors dining area, with a lovely wooden table and stylish chairs, easily seating six. |
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| The house offers a fully fitted spacious open plan kitchen with everything you need – and more. It has a 4 ring stove, hob, grill, microwave, fridge, freezer, dish washer, coffee maker, toaster, iron & board, washing machine etc. The owners provide a welcome pack with some basics for breakfast. |
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| From the large open living space you step out to the pool area, which is in fact your summer living room. Here you can enjoy your al fresco dinner or barbecue, take a nap, read, and relax. |
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| At this comfortable shady patio you will find a wonderful daybed for a lazy nap, a large gas barbecue, and an comfortable outdoor dining table. At the pool you will find lazy sun beds. The pool has two stylish copper bowls from which fresh water sprinkles softly into to the crystal water of the pool. |
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| From the pool area a panoramic view opens up over the valley towards the amazing El Torcal Natural Park. In the distance you can see the small village, which is at only a ten minutes drive. It offers all necessities from a bank to a dentist, a small supermarket, a little café in the square (with great coffee), tapas bars etc. |
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| Monday morning is market day in the village, where you can find wonderful fruit and vegetables. Here it feels like Spain (warm sunshine), it tastes like Spain (lovely tapas, country eggs and the most incredible olives) and it sounds like Spain (goat bells, frogs etc). |
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| After a long day in the sun you will easily fall asleep in your comfortable bed, listening to the frogs and hear the goat bells in the distance. There are two large double bedrooms. One bedroom has a king size four poster bed. It has its own dressing room and an en-suite bathroom with bath, large shower and double basins, bidet. This room has amazing views to the El Torcal Natural Park and the countryside. |
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| The bedrooms are tastefully decorated with beautiful furniture and art work, the beds have nice duvets and lovely, high quality bed linen. Both bedrooms have air-conditioning to cool or heat. All bedroom windows are fitted with fly screens. |
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| The second double bedroom has an antique queen size bed. It has French windows leading to the pool and views over a huge eucalyptus tree. It has a spacious bathroom with bathtub with shower over, basin and toilet. |
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| This bedroom has it\'s own sitting room in Japanese style with sofas which also has air-conditioning. This room has French windows leading to the pool area. A lovely room to relax and check the computer. You do not have to go here to surf the web though: the whole house has fast wireless broadband, allowing you to keep in touch with the world. |
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| The Andalusian countryside is a wonderful place, loaded with culture, beautiful nature and spectacular scenery. The valley of El Torcal is home to many rare bird species. In the river close to Casa Cascada you will see turtles, ducks, herons and with a bit of luck the fox mummy with her cubs. There is a magic here, hard to describe and almost incredible so close to the busy coast. The photos of Casa Cascada are made by Anne Focken. |
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| Location: Casa Cascada is located in the El Torcal area, south of Antequera.The nearest white village is app. a 10 minutes drive by car and offers all amenities: from a bank to a dentist, a small supermarket, a little café in the square (with great coffee), tapas bars etc. It is only a 30 minutes drive to Malaga airport. Surrounding area: A stay at Casa Cascada gives you ample opportunity to visit the many famous cultural heritage sites of the area. It is within a daytrip distance to Seville, Granada (Alhambra Palace), Ronda and Cordoba. Or you could drive through the many pretty white villages scattered all around, taste local tapas and wine and enjoy the atmosphere and the warm sunshine. You do not have to drive far to experience true inland Andalucia: the local markets and customs, ferias and fiestas are still as authentic as can be in this area. |
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For more information see ANDALUCIA
