The rural house El Olivo is located in Cástaras, a small village in the heart of the Alpujarra area in Granada.

Surrounded by exhuberant Mediterranean vegetation, during your stay you will feel the relaxing effect of the sound of water running. Admire from your room, a thousand meters above sea level, the breath-taking landscape of the sides of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Cástaras is probably the village in La Alpujarra that has better kept the traditional atmosphere and autenticity of the rural area, a spirit lost in other villages. Its privileged location in the center of the Alpujarras makes easy to visit other turistic villages like Trevélez, Pampaneira towards the East or Mecina Bombarón and Yegen to the West.

Cástaras is a little village, with whitewashed houses and 'launa' (moorish style) roofs. Moorish architecture is still visible in houses and the traditional narrow, steep streets. The village church is worth visiting, as it posseses a very well preserved Mudejar coffered ceiling.
Near the village you can visit the now abandoned Minas del Conjuro (the 'Spell Mines'), a remaining of the mining past of the area. The trekking fans will find many interesting routes crossing the village, and of course routes to the paradise of trekking: the Sierra Nevada mountain peaks.