Living in Andalucia

Hannah Scott-Joynt takes us on a tour of the home of bullfighting and flamenco in this essential guide to living abroad. From beautiful mountain ranges to the white villages that make this part of Spain so famous, this is a truly fascinating region. Andalucia is the most populated and second largest of the 17 autonomous communities that constitute Spain. Its capital is Seville and the British colony of Gibraltar at the south shares its three-quarter-mile land border with the Andalucian province of Cádiz and Tartessos. The capital of the once great and powerful Tartessian civilisation was located in Andalucia and the region’s culture has been deeply influenced by eight centuries of Muslim rule, which ended in AD1492.