How a stay works
We do not hand you a catalogue.
You tell us who is coming and why. We propose the house that fits, and we shape the days around it: the walk worth the early start, the table worth staying late at, the door that opens because someone here knows you are coming. Which house is yours is a conversation. What the week becomes is a second conversation, and we have that one on your first morning here, once we know who is actually around.
It starts with a conversation.
Not a form, a call. The pace you want, the things that might move you, the trip you have been picturing.
We propose the house.
You see it and approve it before you pay for anything. With it comes orientation, and a written account of what the valley tends to offer around your dates. That account describes; it reserves nothing and commits nobody.
A deposit holds the house.
Half to confirm, the balance thirty days before you travel. Then, on your first morning, the second conversation: what is actually on that week, who is genuinely free, and what you feel like doing. The people here take part around their own lives, not the other way round.
The houses
One house opened the door. Others followed.
Casa Miró was the first. Around it, a few neighbouring houses now share the same idea of how a week here should feel. Glimpsed, not chosen: which one is yours is part of the first conversation.
Casa Miró
The first house · sleeps sixThree floors and a salt pool, a room to work, and a top-floor balcony over the reservoir and the Alpujarras.
The patio house
A few doors down · sleeps twoTraditional woodwork around a patio, a pool, a corner to work, and the valley set in the window.
The elegant farmhouse
For gatherings · a much larger houseLuxurious grounds, a pool, and room for twenty-two to sleep comfortably, with cooks and hands nearby who know how to set the larger table.
What's Possible
This is not a checklist. It's a way of being somewhere.
Ours is slow tourism: the kind where you walk around the Alhambra grounds at dusk rather than queue for a ticket at noon, where you hear flamenco in a private room rather than a tourist tablao, where you eat at a restaurant because someone who lives here told you to. We don't arrange package tours. We arrange the kind of access that comes from knowing people. Everything on this page is a maybe: it depends on who is free that week and whether they want to. You choose from what actually exists on your first morning here, and each one is arranged and paid for on its own.
There are rooms in Granada where flamenco still happens the way it always did: small, late, unrehearsed. Not for audiences. For people who care. We know the door.
Private accessThe valley has its own wine. Family producers in the Alpujarras make wine the old way, in small quantities, available to people they know. The olive harvest in autumn is one of the great seasonal rituals of Andalusia.
SeasonalIn summer, trails above 3,000 metres with almost no one on them. In winter, Europe's southernmost ski slopes with views of Africa. The Alpujarras villages below reward a slow day.
Year-roundNot the Costa del Sol. Cantarrijan is reached by a stunning drive through national forest to the bottom of a gorge, and then the beach opens up: two restaurants with service at your beach chair, some of the clearest water in Spain, and the kind of place you will want to return to every day.
30 minutesA concert inside the Alhambra. A restaurant with a view of it. A neighbourhood bar that opens at midnight and closes when it feels like it. Granada opens to people who know where to go. And no, we will not talk you out of the Alhambra: wanting to see one of the great buildings on earth is not a failure of imagination. Book it well ahead and we will tell you what to do with the hours around it.
Local accessThe bar in Pinos opens early. The Saturday market in the valley has been running longer than anyone can remember. The woman who makes membrillo is not listed anywhere. These things don't need arranging, just time.
On your doorstepWhat comes with it
You are not only getting a key.
Booking through La Red is not only access to a house. Before you travel there is a conversation, a house proposed to suit your party rather than a page of listings to compare, orientation for the drive and the village, the Carta del Valle, and recommendations tied to your actual dates rather than whatever the internet says about Granada in general.
While you are here, there is someone in the territory who knows you are coming, knows the house, knows the valley, and can help you work out what to do next. Not a guarantee that nothing will go wrong. Just a person, nearby, who already has the context.
What a stay might cost
You are paying for the days, not just the door.
A stay here is two things. A house, priced by the night. And the days you build inside it: the meal cooked in a neighbour's kitchen, the walk with someone who knows the paths, the morning at the oil mill. The house you choose before you travel. The days you choose once you are here. Two decisions, two moments, priced separately.
Once you decide to stay with us, you can stop researching. Put the computer down; resist the urge to spend your evenings combing the region for gems. The best of this place is not online, and never was. It lives with people, and we already know them.
Wondering what a stay might cost?
Houses in La Red vary, and anything you choose to do once you arrive is entirely optional. Tell us roughly how many of you are coming, how long you might stay and how full you like your days. Bearings will give you an honest range: the house on one side, the optional days on the other.
La Red works on a commission model with participating owners and collaborators, and the commercial terms are agreed transparently with each participant. The house and anything you choose to do are separate arrangements, made at separate moments, and never quoted as one price.
Beyond this valley
Built so it could happen elsewhere.
Some guests come for the week. Some come because their own valley is quietly emptying, and they wonder whether something like this could live there too. The network owns no houses and renovates nothing, on purpose: it needs a coordinator, a handful of willing households, and neighbours with a craft worth sharing. Chances are your region already has all three. Come and stay, watch how a week here is put together, and take the method home. The method travels; the trust does not. Trust is built by living somewhere, and that, not money, is the only real limit. If this is why you are writing, say so. We keep a longer conversation for people like you.
Ask the Concierge
What's happening during your stay?
The valley and Granada always have something worth knowing about: a festival, a harvest, a concert in a cave, a car rally through the mountains. Our concierge draws on a live database of local events, seasonal highlights, and things worth timing a trip around.
Click any prompt to open a conversation with the concierge, or ask anything at all.
Come and be let in.
If the valley sounds like the trip you have been meaning to take, say hello.
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