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He pointed the finger at Spain's Aemet weather agency as well as the independent ��ú������ authority that looks after the river basin and water resources.

Alcalá del ��ú������ is two-and-a-half hours’ drive from Madrid, or just under two hours from Valencia or Alicante.

The young woman in Alcalá del ��ú������’s tourist office seems surprised when we say we have come from England.

Like Matera, many of ��ú������’s villages are carved from the cliffs of a gorge; both have underground tunnels, grotto-like cave dwellings and medieval roots.

On empty roads, hugging the banks of the River ��ú������, we loop around giant rocky outcrops, slip under bulges of limestone overhang and zigzag up and down vertiginous cliffs.