Before Don Quixote thrust his lance at the imaginary re-creations of his mind, the Arabs of course had settled and defined Al Andalusi forever with such things as windmills, which is why Francisco Muñoz is building three cortijos near an Arabic mill up in El Padul to which, he assures us, tourists from the world over are flocking.

The new establishment will consist of the mill, of course, two pools, terraces, barbecues, the spring, which powers the mill, an ecological garden, a donkey, three chickens, seven ducks, and a reading room. A visit will take you back in time when you’d normally say, “salaam alay-kum” in the mornings instead of “buenos días.”