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Festivals & Events
Semana Santa
Holy Week processions through the narrow old streets are dramatic; on Easter
Sunday there's a hair-raising running of the bulls.
Holy Week
Fiesta de la Virgen de las Nieves
This three-day festival in early August includes a top-class flamenco night in Plaza
del Cabildo.
Flamenco
Feria de San Miguel
Arcos celebrates its patron saint, San Miguel, with a four-day fair at the end of
September.
Religious
Sleeping
PARADOR CASA DEL CORREGIDOR €€€
( 956 70 05 00;
www.parador.es
;
Plaza del Cabildo; r from €155; )
The
highlight of this
parador
is the courtyard restaurant full of palm trees and tinkling
water.
Historic Hotel
HOTEL EL CONVENTO €€
( 956 70 23 33;
www.hotelelconvento.es
;
Calle Maldonado 2; s/d incl breakfast
from €55/70; )
The nuns who used to live in this beautiful, former 17th-cen-
tury convent obviously appreciated a good view. Now it's been turned into a slightly
chintzy hotel with an honoury Rick Steves room spelt out in azulejos tiles.
Hotel
HOTEL REAL DE VEAS €€
( 956 71 73 70;
www.hotelrealdeveas.com
;
Calle Corredera 12; s/d incl breakfast
€55/70; )
A superb option inside a lovingly restored building. The dozen or
so rooms are arranged around a glass- covered patio and are cool and comfortable.
It's one of the few places that has easy car access.
Hotel
Eating
LA TABERNA DE BOABDIL €€
Moroccan, International
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