Alicante · Medio Vinalopó
Hondón de las Nieves
A vineyard town sheltered by limestone sierras, known for individually bagged table grapes and an unusually rich landscape of dry-stone field shelters.
Vines, stone and shelter
An agricultural basin below the sierra
Hondón de las Nieves lies in a broad inland hollow between pale limestone ridges. Vines, almonds and olives divide the dry ground around the main town, La Canalosa and El Rebalso.
Paper bags hanging from the vines are part of a protected table-grape method, while small dry-stone barracas record how generations of workers made practical shelter from the same rocky landscape.
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Hondón de las Nieves: bagged grapes, dry-stone shelters and a mountain basin
How protected table grapes, early dry-stone barracas and three small settlements fit into the cultivated Hondón basin.
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