History of the Tambor del Llano
Tambor del Llano is a small company that has been maturing for years and has established itself as a relevant initiative in the Sierra de Grazalema. The founders, a group of professionals from different fields, sensed the need for a change of model and wanted to do something in the rural world, linked to the land. We looked for a suitable environment in which to become something more than "holidaymakers", convinced that the genius of the place would be the basis for outlining a clearer project.
Near Grazalema we found this unique place, which offered us 32 hectares of cork oak forest, meadows and land for orchards, on the edge of a river; in 2013, when the crisis tempered property prices, the promoters formed a limited company and began an exciting adventure, which today we share with the more than 5000 people who visit us every year to stay, ride horses, see the sky, or visit our environment,
We soon outlined the project idea: to regenerate the forested part of the estate, to use the meadows for livestock (horses and sheep) and vegetable gardens and to create quality tourist accommodation without luxuries (the luxury is the environment), rehabilitating an existing farm building, which would be the economic engine of the whole.
Already in 2014 we launched a line of equestrian tourism, Grazalema on Horseback; and we changed the livestock management of the farm, replacing goats and cows with sheep, with a low stocking rate that would allow them to be reared extensively; we bought a herd of Merina de Grazalema, a protected species; and we began to restore the estate, which had been badly damaged by decades of overgrazing by goats, protecting the new tree sprouts and planting trees and shrubs, native in the forest areas and fruit trees in the orchard and garden area; 10 years later we are still in the process and are beginning to change our pastures to regenerative management.
At the end of 2015 the Tambor del Llano hostel opened its doors: a unique accommodation in nature, with 10 rooms and a diverse offer of activities that every day link us more and more with nature.
Our vocation was always more agricultural than touristic, but we soon realised that accommodation would be the economic engine of everything else and it is really what has consolidated and made the project sustainable (our category is hostel because we do not want to implement issues that are necessary in Andalusia to be a hotel, such as television in the rooms or 24 hour reception).
