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Ruta Bancos Gigantes or Huge Bench Route in Andalucia

A new rage is slowly spreading across Andalucia with its beginnings in the province of Malaga and that is huge benches are being installed in beauty spots across the region. The Huge Bench Route or  Ruta Bancos Gigantes #rutabancosgigantes can be found on Instagram  where they are more active with updates on the new installations of these enormous benches and they have a   Facebook  page too. Map of the Ruta Bancos Gigantes The initiative started by Forest Green an agrobroker company that supplies and works with treated wood to large construction and environmental companies in Spain. The huge bench route is steadily growing, with constant new installations spreading across Andalucia. The enormous handmade wooden benches are 4 metre long and 2.3 metre high, with the seat being 1.3 metres above ground and needing steps to get onto them, appearing in natural beauty spots hopes to encourage people out into and  enjoy the views and of course take photos to be ...

Old Spanish Wooden Doors

I love wood, especially old battered even wormy wood and have a fixation on doors. Even surprising myself with the amount of photos I have of old Spanish wooden doors.

So I just had to share a few out of my collection.

Alora Doorway

Jaen Doorway


Carmona Doorway


Guadix Doorway




Casa El Reguelo Doorway


Guadix Doorway


Guadix Doorway


Granada Doorway


Granada Doorway


Door in Granada


Door in Alora

Door in Cordoba

Door in Malaga

Doorway in Malaga

Okay, so this one isn´t wood but a tatty old metal door painted along with the breeze block wall surrounding it.


Jaén Painted Metal Doorway

See my wooden church door collection.

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