Tourist Visits
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Tourist Visits
- Enjoy Andalusia’s Historic and Artistic Heritage with respect. If you have a guide, always follow his/her instructions.
- Try not to touch or damage items of art or valuable natural resources. A hand touching a sculpture, tapestry or painting combines with thousands more to produce irreversible damage. Sometimes, direct contact with the countryside, flora and fauna can cause major changes.
- When visiting churches and other religious centres, respect the local population’s times of worship.
Avoid taking photographs inside, except with express permission, and speak quietly at all times.
- Avoid the temptation of taking some piece of art as a souvenir, such as a piece of mosaic. Remember that this action, which alone damages the integrity of the heritage in question, can be highly damaging if practised by other visitors as well.
- Do not join the trend of leaving a record of your visit by signing your name on natural or cultural heritage such as rocks, trees, walls, etc. You will be making the experience irreversibly less enjoyable for other visitors, besides damaging our heritage.
- Avoid annoying noise when walking in the streets, visiting monuments, etc. Respect sleeping times and the rhythm of life of the local population, which often does not coincide with visitors’ leisure time.
- If you have the chance to attend a local fiesta or traditional festival, respect the feelings of the local people, even if you do not share their beliefs and traditional ceremonies.
- Enjoy visits to farmland and rural areas, but do not walk across fields or take fruit without the owner’s permission. In protected nature areas you should also respect regulations and follow signed instructions.
- Try not to take part in active tourism that is aggressive to the environment. Get information on activities permitted at visitor centres and information points, along with regulated areas and dates.
- Do not remove anything (animals, plants, fossils, minerals, etc.), whether as souvenirs or for collections. When these actions are multiplied by numerous visitors they can cause serious problems for the integrity of ecosystems in the area, especially when they affect protected or endangered species. If you want a souvenir, take a photo.
- When doing routes on foot or by bike, follow the indications of the guide. If you are travelling alone, keep to marked tracks and trails, and obey any signs along them.
- Mediterranean forest is highly susceptible to fire, especially in summer. Therefore it is important not to make fires or to smoke in forest areas. Remember that in designated Nature Reserves you can only light fires in specific authorised locations during certain months.
- Avoid actions that could have a negative effect on farms, domestic animals or infrastructure (fences and cattle gates), and respect the original use of cattle trails, letting animals pass and closing gates.
