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Excursion in Torkal and to Antekera.
The nature in a neighborhood of the small town Torkal the very unusual. Because of a strong erosion karstic rocks Torkalya accepted such freakish forms that the imagination itself wakes up in us and we begin to think out in eager rivalry names to these creations of the Nature. That stone is similar to a female fine-molded head, is proud zakinuty back, and that is on the circles of cookies combined at each other. All amicably join in this game and… here already all of us hold stomachs and we can not laugh more – there are no forces! Here something curious met directly under feet – a print in the rock which was left by a mollusk living millions years ago or a snail of the huge sizes. Here Natural History that took place in school, you see personally. And it seems that you will pass still slightly and you will find fossils of ancient pangolins and dinosaurs. That! And such it happens here! Scientists of the whole world know this district not as a tourist route, and as a place where it is possible to make a lot of the most interesting opening about flora and fauna of bygone eras.
The city of Antekera too on the is interesting: is here and majestic churches 16 – го centuries and the lock and the snow-white lodges of traditional Spanish building which are restricting on slopes of mountains. (Generally, Andaluziya's all small towns are located on slopes of mountains, plains here a rarity.) The name of the small town occurs from the Roman settlement of Antikaria which arose here at the time of Tsezarey. But excavation shows that people occupied this district 4500 years ago.
Antekera's inhabitants saw a lot of things: and fight of tsar Asdrubal with the Roman legions and invasion of the German tribes and, at last, a gain Arabs under Abdelazis-Ben-Muza-Ben-Noseir leadership. At Arabs this city was called as Medina Antecari
Antekera's dawn as the cities, fell on 18 eyelids. Palaces and churches, houses and chapels were under construction. And today Antekera – the major center in the north of the Province of Malaga.
