This doesn't offer a packed sand and bustling bar of Marbella's Benidorm, rather than Spain, a small white house surrounded by olive groves.
Overtourism is a major concern in Spain, and every summer cities like Barcelona are overwhelmed by British visitors.
Then there are attractive extreme temperatures that many Spanish resorts regularly see around 40c thanks to global warming.
However, this vast and extremely popular country has one area that has been barely discovered, and the weather is a bit cooler and damp, and there are few tourists.
Spain's Sierra de La Duradesa Mountain spans areas with a low population of Burgos, Soria and La Rioja, so other parts of Spain suffer from tourism pressures, but these wild, vast, barely tourist-free mountains provide plenty of fresh air.
Located in remote Northern interiors along the way from Madrid and Santander, their isolation was a major attraction for travel writer Lois Price.
She told the Guardian:
“I have traveled through Spain for work and play over the past 20 years, but somehow these 'demanding' mountains have escaped me.
“This is not Spain, a white village or dusty olive grove. On the north side of Demand, the climate is damp and cool, improvised allocations, stonework and makeshift sheds remind us of the forgotten corners of Eastern Europe.”
The closest to the tourist spot here is the town of Ezkarei, located on the north side of the mountain, operating as the hub of Valdezkarei's small ski resort, built in the 1970s.
The local Spanish Tourism Bureau wrote: “The town of Ezkarey and its surrounding area are ideal for restful and peaceful people.”
It could be a claw biting drive, Lois says along a ridge that is over 1,800 meters (6,000 feet) but says, “The scenery is amazing in all directions. Apart from the folding of the wilderness of untouched mountains and the occasional hiking trail signs, there is nothing human-drawn.”
In the southern hilly area, Lagunas Denila is a herd of glacial lagoons surrounded by cliffs and pine forests. The lake can only be reached on foot, and at an altitude of 6,000 feet it gives an exhilarating dip.
Lois adds: “As you expect, you become brave as you expect, but that's the enormous scale of your surroundings and lonely. The only sound that comes with my swimming was the surprisingly large frog chorus.
The closer you move to the sea level, the warmer and dryer the climate will again be. There are plenty of hiking and cycling trails to follow this, but she says, “still “españavacía” – Spain in the Sky.”
The village of Quintanar de la Sierra in the southern hilly region is a great base for exploring the demand. Hostile Domingo has affordable rooms (only for rooms 55 euros/47 pounds). Coffee will bring you back to just 1.50 euro (£1.20).
However, this forgotten paradise is not Spain, which most British people know well. No one speaks English and the locals still ride around. Everyone in the town's plaza, hotels and bars is doing sassion. This is a throwback to the 1970s.
Lois concludes: “This is a land that social media has forgotten, and it's better. However, as it delves deep into hidden corners, it may not seem much in the way of tourist attractions, but it reveals the fascinating, eclectic landscape of history and culture.”
Just above the hill, it is one of the most famous places in the film, and in 1966 Good, Bad and Ughi were filmed.
The dinosaurs roam this part of Spain, hundreds of footprints visible near the town of Salas de los Infantes.
There is also the eerie Necropolis de Cujacabras, dating back to the 9th and 11th centuries. There, dozens of adult and child-sized graves are carved from rock slabs deep in the pine forest. There are abandoned Monstries, Roman ruins, bridges, and railroad lines that have no longer used exploring railroad lines.
The closest airport to the region is Vitra Airport (VIT) in the Basque region. There are Ryanair or Viering Airline flights.
