A country house for accommodation and two special activity holidays, cooking and walking. I have just spent a week cooking at the finca - great fun, Iberic, Moroccan and Levant cuisine. Great walking country too. A really undiscovered, very laid back part of Spain, precious secrets without any hype.

www.finca-al-manzil.com Nearest airports Madrid, Lisbon or Seville. Tel. 0034670743296

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Jamon is the delicious air-dried ham, pata negra, of the Iberic pig which is fed on acorns before its fate and then the whole hams are air- dried in the special micro climate of the Sierra de Montanchez for up to four years.

Any of the tapas bars in the main plaza of Montanchez village serve platters of jamon, cheese and bread with the strong local wine pitarra, delicious!

Montanchez 40kms from Caceres,Trujillo or Merida

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A wonderfully eclectic collection of bullfighting memorabilia covers every centimetre of wall space in this atmospheric bar, sounds naff but strangely isn't. It really has been the bullfighters' bar for many years. Good selection of wines and tasty tapas or more substantial meals upstairs.

Just behing the covered market off the pedestrian shopping street of Merida

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