Fauna and Flora, medieval villages, landscapes, space and tranquility

The wide open spaces of the Australian Outback often is incorporated into the most beautiful natural parks of that continent. The Spaniards describe these uncultivated lands, where cattle graze and where game abounds, as “Monte”. The Spanish Outback is one of the richest areas of biodiversity in Europe. It is also one of the most exotic, with its Mediterranean climate and its many endemic species. The guesthouse is in the Guadarrama National Park, in Central Spain, land deeply marked from the Middle Ages; it has become feral recently — ready to welcome the wolf whose howl sometimes rises in the night-sky of cold January nights. A warring border between the Muslim Caliphate of Cordoba and Spanish Christianity existed for over 700 years, the Sierra de Guadarrama still exhibits this with its fortified villages and reserved people. This region has experienced few changes recently and seems to have been forgotten in the course of modern history.