Ruud Streefkerk

The Mirador del Lirio is a strategic look-out post in southern Spain. An immense sandstone mass hanging at an altitude of 400 m above the valley of the river Guadiana Menor, an important tributary of the Guadalquivir. There is a great contrast in the landscape we’re looking at. We see a desert landscape, mainly caused by agriculture and animal husbandry and a lack of precipitation. But the contrast with the green valley through which the river meanders between poplars and olive trees, is spectacular. In the distance we see the Natural Parc of the Sierras de Cazorla, of which the southern border is formed by this river.