Creative Courses

Los Gazquez is a retreat for the creatively minded. Should your compulsion be to draw or paint, write poetry or music, to exercise any multiple of creative disciplines, Los Gazquez provides the space, time and opportunity to make a holiday a deeply fulfilling one.

And should you wish to share the experience of this creative retreat, Los Gazquez runs a series of art and design courses throughout the year. The ethos of these programmes is to tailor your experience of this environment in a way which allows you to maximise your understanding and creative response. Los Gazquez has designed five courses under the following titles...

The atmosphere for these courses is very much for the guest to bring their knowledge and skills, their passions and enthusiasms to a group of people in an atmosphere of camaraderie and sharing, should your abilities be professional or yet to be discovered.

Los Gazquez is here to guide you, to encourage you, to help you to access the creative and ecological opportunities you need to have a fulfilling and inspiring experience.

Cortijada Los Gazquez

Cortijada Los Gazquez is a family refuge far from the noise of any city or town. Here the night sky is unpolluted by metropolitan light. On summer nights you can gaze at the stars for hours.

In the daytime the air is hot and suffused with the pungent scent of pine trees. This is semi wilderness, a vast alpine desert caught in the rain shadow of the Cordillera Baetica. With an average rainfall of 400mm skies are nearly always blue and sunlight is bountiful. Winters are short and can be cold whilst summers are long and hot appearing to compress spring and autumn into smaller seasons.

The combination of all these elements has made Los Gazquez an ideal location to exploit the natural resources which are so abundant here. Resources necessary to create power to a place remote and fully independent from the grid.

However, at Cortijada Los Gazquez, being environmentally and socially responsible needn't compromise one’s love of design.

These were once five old farm houses, a cortijada, now converted into one very beautiful space. On the one hand great homage and respect has been given in it's restoration to the simple vernacular architecture of the building, and on the other hand a crisp eye for detail has been employed which makes the place seem stunningly modern.

Here you will find uncomplicated luxury with minimal intent. And here you will find peace of mind, body and spirit in far more profound ways than the phrase was intended.