Moratalla

In the height of summer, fields of lavandin, sage, lavender and oregano dye the highlands of the northwest of the Region of Murcia mauve, we are in Moratalla.

Far from the heat and bustle of the coast, the cool and rugged Moratalla mountain ranges offer visitors an explosion of fragrance and flowering among the high peaks surrounding the aromatic crops. The lavender, our protagonist, is found here in its entire world production. It is a plant with a strong, ancient essence, which will awaken in you feelings as ancient as the origin of its use and cultivation.

Its roots are ours, its sap is our people, and its stems and flowers are everything that Moratalla, Campo de Béjar, Campo de San Juan, Sabinar, Calar de la Santa, Zaén and Benizar offer to a visitor eager to experience as a protagonist, an experience so sensitive that it will leave an indelible memory engraved in their soul, in your soul, you will fall in love forever with these fields, their history and their people.

Come… See how the essence is distilled, feel the heat of the traditional cooking pots on your face, immerse yourself in the air filled with essential oils, experience how peace floods over you. Discover small corners full of beauty and fragrance, where tradition becomes a spectacle for the senses. But not everything is beauty… To extract the precious essence, the people of our highlands work hard, in an artisanal way, paying with sweat for the essential oil that the plants deliver after such a strenuous effort. An ancestral alchemy, fire, sweat, water, that transforms the beautiful aromatics into a delicate essence.

Come… And enjoy this moment in which you can intimately experience what you see and breathe. Capture in photos what your heart inspires. Art and essay among the perfume you unconsciously inhale, that is how seduction begins.

And completing your experience, some movie-like sunsets and the complicity of the night, of the moon, which must hide in the Moratalaz skies free of light pollution. The Milky Way, that little piece of our galaxy that we see from our solar system, is ready for its date with you. Looking out over the dark balcony that the night offers us, you will be there and they will be there too, splendid lavender plants with their flowers giving off effluvia that seem to escape towards the starry sky. Under the effect of the twilight light they seem bigger, more leafy and... we seem smaller. Fall in love with what you see, fall in love with the infinite mauve lines that the horizon swallows, follow the trail of the perfume of the most appreciated elixir that is extracted from these magical plants, fall in love with the invisible experience of the pure essence in distillation.