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Village/town house, Good Position, Partly Furnished, Fitted Kitchen, Garden: Beautiful Garden, Facing: NorthViews: Surrounds, Mountains, Courtyard, Village.Features: Wood Carpentry, Pantry, Bottled Gas, Garden, Courtyard, Telephone, Terracotta, Terrace, Storage.Typical house with large patio.This is a typicall andalucian village house located in a quite street within the old part of the village. At the back side there is a large patio where built a swimming-pool or set up a garden.It comes on 3 level, in the basement its the fitted kitchen, one bedroom and a store room, from we can entry to the patio. At the groundfloor are another 2 bedrooms, a typicall kitchen and a lounge with fireplace. At the first level find one double bedroom and a large room that could be used like a 3 bed room.The house have been carefully restored saving the original tiles on the floor, the walls and the staris.LOCATION: Illora is included in two of the routes of the 'legasdo Andalusi': that of Washington Irving and that of the Califat. It is situated to the east of the Parapanda mountain range and is centred around the majestic Encarnacion Christian church and the ruins of the walls which surround the fortress, built on a large rock. The outlay of the village, with its evident Muslim influence and heritage incorporates a system of streets, side streets and back alleys which make the steep slopes of the place habitable. There are two main ways of getting to Illora-either via the A92 from Villanueva Mesia, Tocon and Alomartes or via the N432. There are nearly 7,000 inhabitants distributed between the following villages: Alomartes, Bracan, Escoznar, Illora, Obeilar and Tocon. The zone boasts an Arab fortress and castles which restify to its role as a border during the last frontier of Al-andalus. It was deservedly given the name 'Right Eye of Granada'.HISTORYDuring the Muslin period it was an important town with fortications.Its strategic position on the Nazan frontier of Granada earned it the nickname 'Right Eye of Granada'. It Catholic Monarchs, Ibn al-Jatib, on describing the different zones of the Nazari kingdom of Granada, says of Illora and Montefrio that: ?between them they formed a mine of excellent wheat, homesteads and grazing land, having as disadvantage the continued attacks of the enemy in Alcala la Real in Christian hand´s.-