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Orce is located in an environment paisajístico semidesértico (a mixture of countryside and Semi-Desert) of great beauty. The town possesses a great attractiveness with your beautiful sprinkled corners of historical buildings.

NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE NADOR
You were the neighborhood outside more important of the town. I/you extended from the north of the village until the cerrete of the Nador, next to the vega. You called this way you to prepare in this place of a tower masthead that The city presents a semicircular configuration al-around of the Castle. You shows two areas morphologically very differentiated: of a side the area of the center, with built houses, and of another side the neighborhoods of house-caves.
The center, of having traced homo-géneo, is guided from North to South from the streets Fernan-do Villalobos, New Square, remain silent Stores and street of the Ángel. Another central axis is I/you took Arab name: toast of the Nador, or tower of surveillance on the vega.

NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE MORERÍA
In him the Moorish of Orce were confined in the years that you/they mediate between the Reconquest and your definitive expulsion in 1570. In this genuinely Moorish neighborhood, they were frequent the dead ends and the infinite corners. In your first years the alone morería determined by the Avenue of The Pipes.
The house-cave neighborhoods are surrounding to the area center. To the West the neighborhoods of San Antón, Tarquina and Rozalay are located, and to the East San Pedro's neighborhoods, Perchel and San Marcos. The quarters of "you Belonged to San Pedro" and the neighborhood "Vegetable garden of the Rosemary" they are modern and of recent construction. I/you had an entrance, in front of the castle, and an exit, down the street Real of the Oven. Today you continues presenting the charm and coolness of your narrow and tortuous alleys and your small houses of two plants. The main street of this neighborhood called you street of Little wheat.

This is computer translation taken from the official web site of ORCE, situated north west of Oria (where I live), it is a beutifull Village where the people (as most Spaniards are) are very friendly and only to happy to assist you if possible.
Ann and myself have been there a few times, as it is a nice day out, we leave home in the morning (somtimes a little late), drive out through CULLER and stop here for lunche, then acrry on through the Vally to Santa Maria de Nieva, Velez Blanco, Velez Rubio, then home over the mountains, each time we go we see somthing different.