Granada Province has an excellent geography and culture which provides a wonderful base for the traveller or holiday maker. The diversity provides for subtropical, coastal, mediterranean and high mountain zones to exist within a relatively small area. The Valley has its own micro-climate: protected from the cold North winds by the surrounding mountains, the southern aspect providing maximum hours of sunshine and the close ground water providing for lush vegetation and plantations of citrus, olives and almonds. The evergreen oak forests which used to cover the valley have mostly disappeared although small patches can still be found.

About 10km from Granada City is El Valle de Lecrin, the Valley of Happiness. Described as a fresh and shaded valley where the scent of orange and lemon blossom fills the air, El Valle de Lecrin provides a traveller with a welcoming hospitality. El Valle is in a depression which separates the Sierra Nevada from the surrounding mountains of the Sierra Almijara, the foothills of Cazulas and the Sierra de los Guajares.

There are a number of villages/ towns in the Valley: Acequias, Albunuelas, Beznar, Conchar, Chite-Talara, Durcal, Izbor-Tablate, Melegis, Mondujar, Murchas, Niguelas, Padul, Pinos del Valle, Restabal and Saleres. The villages within El Valle seem to have stood still in time. The pace of life is slow and peaceful. The slow pace and the terrain means that mules are still used to carry produce. 

A lasting legacy of the Moorish period of Al-Andalus is the system of irrigation channels which are still in use today. Remains of castillos and other buildings can still be seen dotted around the Valley within the white washed villages. Running between the villages are the old routes for people and animals which provides excellent footpaths for discovering the old parts of the Valley.