If you think that there are no winter sports in Spain, you haven’t been to Jaca. When its founders decided that the Pyrenees were the right place to settle, more than two millennia ago, they didn’t think that the location would define the essence of the town and its inhabitants forever. Jaca’s idyll with snow and ice dates back to the origins of the town. Its love of winter sports came later, but it is one of these relationships that give you butterflies in your stomach and has also led this Pyrenean enclave to put forward its candidature for the Winter Olympics in 2022. The race to raise the five ring flag began over three decades ago, and this also means that the t

It may seem strange, but it is always worth wearing a swimsuit, even when you're going skiing. No, this advice is not the product of any kind of dementia typical of the bold lovers of extreme cold, but of the particular location of Sierra Nevada, the southernmost ski resort in Europe. How many natural winter sports facilities are an hour’s drive from the delicious beaches of the Mediterranean Sea? Let me help. Just one! Sierra Nevada! Sierra Nevada is in the province of Granada in the heart of Andalusia, a region much better known for its warm sun than for winter sports. Despite this, it is a ski resort with 102 kilometres of skiing area, 30 ski lifts and over 100 slopes.