Villages of the Serrania of Ronda
- Igualeja:
The town of Igualeja is situated among the Ronda and Sierra Bermeja, in rugged terrain, beautiful scenery and abundant water.
This is a good place to walk on his channel formed by ravines, whose slopes are covered with pines and chestnut trees, sits on its shores typical riverbank vegetation, dotted with beautiful walnut.
The main source of wealth is the forest and harvest annual chestnuts.
As for handicrafts include the development of objects lawsuit esparto, leather and leather goods.
- Parauta:
Located in the headwaters of the River Valley Genal, a transition zone between the central plateau and the depression formed by the river.
The town has many scenic attractions, especially the part that belongs to the Nature Reserve. For its botanical interest and also for their beauty, highlights of the pinsapo of Parauta (Spanish fir forest, a species native fir unique in the world).
Parauta produces mainly chestnuts, although figures prominently logging from pine and olive trees. Other products are spelt, honey and herbs.
- Pujerra:
Like its neighbouring municipalities, Igualeja and Parauta, Pujerra is surrounded by a thick forest of chestnut trees which extends on both sides of the river. The beauty of the landscape coupled with the cleanup and water quality of Genal makes Pujerra hide magnificent corners for bathing and resting locals and visitors alike.
Pujerra's economy is based on the production of chestnuts and logging of pine trees. There are also small areas irrigated by the river.
- Cartajima:
It is a village enjoying incomparable views.
In the area of the village there is remarkables limestone karst formations with a variety of shapes, known as "Los Riscos of Cartajima" and recently appeared in the territory, abundant Roman remains.
The vegetation of the area, are holm oak, chestnut and cork, with a wildlife consisting in foxes, partridges, rabbits and birds of prey. There are fishing in the river Genal, who extended to Cartajima .It was very rich in vineyards until the onset of phylloxera in the early nineteenth century.
- Juzcar:
It is located in the Alto del Genal, in the middle region of the Ronda, near the peak Jarastepar until the municipalities of Estepona and Benahavís. It offers a very varied landscape, from the rock of the Sierra del Oreganal north, until the chestnuts and pine forests in the foothills of the Sierra Bermeja. Also olive tree occupies an important place in this county.
In Júzcar, as in many other villages of Ronda, it fits on an elevation mountain slopes adapt their houses to the streets and broken terrain, set of architectural volumes whites who excel on the peculiar chimneys that stand on the rooftops .
- Farajan:
It is located on the right bank of the river Genal at the limit of locations like Alpandeire, Júzcar, Jubrique and Atajate. In a landscape of deep ravines crossed streams that flow into the Genal, highlights the dominant note of the broad masses of chestnut protagonists of this valley.
The small town centre itself has a physiognomy of the villages of the mountains, low and whitewashed houses of undoubted charm and covered by traditional Arabic tile. The monument is most interesting is his Church of Our Lady of the Rosary.
- Alpandeire:
The origin of the current village takes place around the year 711, being one of the first cities fortified by Muslims in the Serrania de Ronda.
The layout of its streets still felt the imprint of Arabo-Andalusian, impressing visitors to the great hall of his church in San Antonio de Padua. Alpandeire preserved as a monument of historical and artistic House birthplace of Fray Leopoldo, located in the village centre.
In addition, you can enjoy the impressive Genal Valley and other high scenic beauty as the tops of Jarastepar, Carnero and Pozancón, Canalizo of the gorges and Infiernillo and the Hill of the Friars.
- Atajate:
Atajate rises to 745 meters above sea level between the valleys of the Guadiaro and the Genal, beside the road that connects Round and Algeciras
Despite occupying a high position, this small town is open to the Genal Valley, between Peñasblancas peak (1,076 meters) and the Cerro del Cuervo (782 meters), the latter with the village.
A landscape in which olive groves, vineyards and fields of grain coexist with oak, cork trees and bushes, covering stands in low areas and thickets of limestone reliefs environment.
- Benadalid:
Benadalid is located in the middle of Genal Valley, part of the Serrania of Ronda, in a landscape of olive trees, chestnut, oak and cork. The natural environment surrounding the urban core is formed by a mountain range that among the highlights of the Tagus Aircraft, the Tajo de la Cruz and Mount Cuco, some exceeding 1,000 m. tall.
You can visit the archeological remains of the ancient castle of Arab origin, perfectly preserved and converted them into the cemetery. Growing day by day , the tourist value of the municipality, both in their natural environment as the plastic beauty of its urbanism.
- Benalauria:
Benalauría extends its lands from the Genal valley until Guadiaro, immersed in the Serrania of Ronda, in a very varied and rugged landscape. A landscape by cork oak trim, gall oaks and chestnut, which is embedded jewels as the urban white villages of Valle del Genal. the streets keeps in their memory the Arab Andalusian tradition, the narrow, steep and winding streets and whitewashed sales decorated with wrought iron and flowers ..
- Gaucin:
It is the first village of the Serrania of Ronda that you can found on the road linking the Campo de Gibraltar with the City of the Tagus, has all the charm of white villages who fit into the slopes of the mountains hosting the river Genal.
Gaucin has one of the most diverse landscapes in the province, you will find cork, oak and pine forests, as well as formations of shrubs mixed with brown and olive trees, in addition to their gardens and cottages next to the varied vegetation of its banks.
The village is located in La Vaguada that the Sierra del Hacho, under the castle of the eagle, which took a great strategic value because with Gibraltar, was defending the entrance to the south. Built by the Romans, it was the Arabs who left more traces in the compound.
Its streets, Morish track, easily fit into the hill where sits the white and grace of their homes with adorned balconies and bars of the work of expert craftsmen of the forge and forging.
- Jubrique:
Located in the middle mountains, 38 km from Ronda, Jubrique with its 866 inhabitants and 39 km2 presents an economy based primarily on the primary sector, with a strong rule of climatology in the overall activities, subject to atmospheric dynamics. Yours is a way of seasonal production, almost autarchic, as has been typical in these areas of natural resources and broad landscape value, which still enjoy traditional forms.
The town lies within the so-called structural complexity of the Cordilleras Béticas, more specifically in the area Betica. It is characterized by overlapping robes and rode by the presence of geological formations of metamorphic origin. The materials more frequent are slate, mica and Esquit Esquit, with frequent interbedded quartzite.
- Benaojan:
Benaojan is located at an altitude of 564m above sea level in the valley of the Guadiaro and covers an area of 32km2. It has two very distinct districts; Benaojan center and Benaojan station, near the rail and river. Altogether 1,683 people.
We know the origins of these village with the cave paintings found in the cave of the Pileta. Another important cave is the Cave of the Cat, along the Guadiaro River. It also offers of archaeological interest, an important geological sample, since it has elapsed and leave the river Guadares after a tour of 4 kilometers underground. Also the Phoenicians settled there, Romans, Visigoths, Arabs and Christians. As in most of the peoples of the Serrania was during the time when Arabic Benaojan assumes greater importance.
- Montejaque:
The land in the village is between the Ronda region and the Sierra de Grazalema Cadiz, more specifically by the Guadiaro River Valley and the Sierra del Líbar in the western part of the province of Malaga. Most of its territory lies in the impressive surroundings of the natural park of the Sierra de Grazalema.
The origin of Montejaque is clearly Arabic, his name means mountain desert. It was during this there was a medieval citadel that gave an overview of much of the Serrania. During the occupation Arabic, Montejaque enjoyed a remarkable importance. This construction completely disappeared, leaving only his name at the Finca El Castillo. Another of the historic sites of this village is the place known as "The Bridge", where we can still see the remains of a Roman bridge over the river Campobuche.
- Jimena de Libar:
This village of the Ronda region stands at full face mountainous Sierra de Líbar, on the left side of the Guadiaro River. The landscape of this county is very rugged hills villages consisting of oak, cork trees and bushes that extend across the white rock of the mountain. Most of their lands occupied by two strands of the Guadiaro river, the rest lies between the river and village, here the landscape becomes softer with olive crops, corn and irrigated orchards.
Jimera de libar is divided into two villages well-defined: the highest part that is distinguished by olives trees and holm oak and neighborhoods of the station or the bottom near the river. It is one of the most beautiful natural scenery of the area framed between the valley and the Guadiaro Grazalema Natural Park.
- Cortes de la Frontera:
The village of Cortes de la Frontera is located in the Guadiaro river valley, in the serrania of Ronda, province of Malaga. Most of their lands are covered by huge masses of cork trees that run from the river to get within the province of Cadiz providing a beautiful landscape and a special microclimate that is characterized by high humidity and cold air, especially in winter and dry in summer and warm with a nice cool at night.
Within this vast wooded corners you can find some dreamy spots as the site of the Sauceda, where the council has fitted with cabins to stay overnight, or the pit of Buitreras, in the Guadiaro river, to which we can access in three ways, none of them is easy, rail tunnels, by the river and the steep slopes, this unusual place where we can recreate its silence broken only by crows and the flutter of pigeons look at the pit where more than 100 m depth, is located near the township of El Colmenar near the hydroelectric station of Buitreras.
The town of Igualeja is situated among the Ronda and Sierra Bermeja, in rugged terrain, beautiful scenery and abundant water.
This is a good place to walk on his channel formed by ravines, whose slopes are covered with pines and chestnut trees, sits on its shores typical riverbank vegetation, dotted with beautiful walnut.
The main source of wealth is the forest and harvest annual chestnuts.
As for handicrafts include the development of objects lawsuit esparto, leather and leather goods.
- Parauta:
Located in the headwaters of the River Valley Genal, a transition zone between the central plateau and the depression formed by the river.
The town has many scenic attractions, especially the part that belongs to the Nature Reserve. For its botanical interest and also for their beauty, highlights of the pinsapo of Parauta (Spanish fir forest, a species native fir unique in the world).
Parauta produces mainly chestnuts, although figures prominently logging from pine and olive trees. Other products are spelt, honey and herbs.
- Pujerra:
Like its neighbouring municipalities, Igualeja and Parauta, Pujerra is surrounded by a thick forest of chestnut trees which extends on both sides of the river. The beauty of the landscape coupled with the cleanup and water quality of Genal makes Pujerra hide magnificent corners for bathing and resting locals and visitors alike.
Pujerra's economy is based on the production of chestnuts and logging of pine trees. There are also small areas irrigated by the river.
- Cartajima:
It is a village enjoying incomparable views.
In the area of the village there is remarkables limestone karst formations with a variety of shapes, known as "Los Riscos of Cartajima" and recently appeared in the territory, abundant Roman remains.
The vegetation of the area, are holm oak, chestnut and cork, with a wildlife consisting in foxes, partridges, rabbits and birds of prey. There are fishing in the river Genal, who extended to Cartajima .It was very rich in vineyards until the onset of phylloxera in the early nineteenth century.
- Juzcar:
It is located in the Alto del Genal, in the middle region of the Ronda, near the peak Jarastepar until the municipalities of Estepona and Benahavís. It offers a very varied landscape, from the rock of the Sierra del Oreganal north, until the chestnuts and pine forests in the foothills of the Sierra Bermeja. Also olive tree occupies an important place in this county.
In Júzcar, as in many other villages of Ronda, it fits on an elevation mountain slopes adapt their houses to the streets and broken terrain, set of architectural volumes whites who excel on the peculiar chimneys that stand on the rooftops .
- Farajan:
It is located on the right bank of the river Genal at the limit of locations like Alpandeire, Júzcar, Jubrique and Atajate. In a landscape of deep ravines crossed streams that flow into the Genal, highlights the dominant note of the broad masses of chestnut protagonists of this valley.
The small town centre itself has a physiognomy of the villages of the mountains, low and whitewashed houses of undoubted charm and covered by traditional Arabic tile. The monument is most interesting is his Church of Our Lady of the Rosary.
- Alpandeire:
The origin of the current village takes place around the year 711, being one of the first cities fortified by Muslims in the Serrania de Ronda.
The layout of its streets still felt the imprint of Arabo-Andalusian, impressing visitors to the great hall of his church in San Antonio de Padua. Alpandeire preserved as a monument of historical and artistic House birthplace of Fray Leopoldo, located in the village centre.
In addition, you can enjoy the impressive Genal Valley and other high scenic beauty as the tops of Jarastepar, Carnero and Pozancón, Canalizo of the gorges and Infiernillo and the Hill of the Friars.
- Atajate:
Atajate rises to 745 meters above sea level between the valleys of the Guadiaro and the Genal, beside the road that connects Round and Algeciras
Despite occupying a high position, this small town is open to the Genal Valley, between Peñasblancas peak (1,076 meters) and the Cerro del Cuervo (782 meters), the latter with the village.
A landscape in which olive groves, vineyards and fields of grain coexist with oak, cork trees and bushes, covering stands in low areas and thickets of limestone reliefs environment.
- Benadalid:
Benadalid is located in the middle of Genal Valley, part of the Serrania of Ronda, in a landscape of olive trees, chestnut, oak and cork. The natural environment surrounding the urban core is formed by a mountain range that among the highlights of the Tagus Aircraft, the Tajo de la Cruz and Mount Cuco, some exceeding 1,000 m. tall.
You can visit the archeological remains of the ancient castle of Arab origin, perfectly preserved and converted them into the cemetery. Growing day by day , the tourist value of the municipality, both in their natural environment as the plastic beauty of its urbanism.
- Benalauria:
Benalauría extends its lands from the Genal valley until Guadiaro, immersed in the Serrania of Ronda, in a very varied and rugged landscape. A landscape by cork oak trim, gall oaks and chestnut, which is embedded jewels as the urban white villages of Valle del Genal. the streets keeps in their memory the Arab Andalusian tradition, the narrow, steep and winding streets and whitewashed sales decorated with wrought iron and flowers ..
- Gaucin:
It is the first village of the Serrania of Ronda that you can found on the road linking the Campo de Gibraltar with the City of the Tagus, has all the charm of white villages who fit into the slopes of the mountains hosting the river Genal.
Gaucin has one of the most diverse landscapes in the province, you will find cork, oak and pine forests, as well as formations of shrubs mixed with brown and olive trees, in addition to their gardens and cottages next to the varied vegetation of its banks.
The village is located in La Vaguada that the Sierra del Hacho, under the castle of the eagle, which took a great strategic value because with Gibraltar, was defending the entrance to the south. Built by the Romans, it was the Arabs who left more traces in the compound.
Its streets, Morish track, easily fit into the hill where sits the white and grace of their homes with adorned balconies and bars of the work of expert craftsmen of the forge and forging.
- Jubrique:
Located in the middle mountains, 38 km from Ronda, Jubrique with its 866 inhabitants and 39 km2 presents an economy based primarily on the primary sector, with a strong rule of climatology in the overall activities, subject to atmospheric dynamics. Yours is a way of seasonal production, almost autarchic, as has been typical in these areas of natural resources and broad landscape value, which still enjoy traditional forms.
The town lies within the so-called structural complexity of the Cordilleras Béticas, more specifically in the area Betica. It is characterized by overlapping robes and rode by the presence of geological formations of metamorphic origin. The materials more frequent are slate, mica and Esquit Esquit, with frequent interbedded quartzite.
- Benaojan:
Benaojan is located at an altitude of 564m above sea level in the valley of the Guadiaro and covers an area of 32km2. It has two very distinct districts; Benaojan center and Benaojan station, near the rail and river. Altogether 1,683 people.
We know the origins of these village with the cave paintings found in the cave of the Pileta. Another important cave is the Cave of the Cat, along the Guadiaro River. It also offers of archaeological interest, an important geological sample, since it has elapsed and leave the river Guadares after a tour of 4 kilometers underground. Also the Phoenicians settled there, Romans, Visigoths, Arabs and Christians. As in most of the peoples of the Serrania was during the time when Arabic Benaojan assumes greater importance.
- Montejaque:
The land in the village is between the Ronda region and the Sierra de Grazalema Cadiz, more specifically by the Guadiaro River Valley and the Sierra del Líbar in the western part of the province of Malaga. Most of its territory lies in the impressive surroundings of the natural park of the Sierra de Grazalema.
The origin of Montejaque is clearly Arabic, his name means mountain desert. It was during this there was a medieval citadel that gave an overview of much of the Serrania. During the occupation Arabic, Montejaque enjoyed a remarkable importance. This construction completely disappeared, leaving only his name at the Finca El Castillo. Another of the historic sites of this village is the place known as "The Bridge", where we can still see the remains of a Roman bridge over the river Campobuche.
- Jimena de Libar:
This village of the Ronda region stands at full face mountainous Sierra de Líbar, on the left side of the Guadiaro River. The landscape of this county is very rugged hills villages consisting of oak, cork trees and bushes that extend across the white rock of the mountain. Most of their lands occupied by two strands of the Guadiaro river, the rest lies between the river and village, here the landscape becomes softer with olive crops, corn and irrigated orchards.
Jimera de libar is divided into two villages well-defined: the highest part that is distinguished by olives trees and holm oak and neighborhoods of the station or the bottom near the river. It is one of the most beautiful natural scenery of the area framed between the valley and the Guadiaro Grazalema Natural Park.
- Cortes de la Frontera:
The village of Cortes de la Frontera is located in the Guadiaro river valley, in the serrania of Ronda, province of Malaga. Most of their lands are covered by huge masses of cork trees that run from the river to get within the province of Cadiz providing a beautiful landscape and a special microclimate that is characterized by high humidity and cold air, especially in winter and dry in summer and warm with a nice cool at night.
Within this vast wooded corners you can find some dreamy spots as the site of the Sauceda, where the council has fitted with cabins to stay overnight, or the pit of Buitreras, in the Guadiaro river, to which we can access in three ways, none of them is easy, rail tunnels, by the river and the steep slopes, this unusual place where we can recreate its silence broken only by crows and the flutter of pigeons look at the pit where more than 100 m depth, is located near the township of El Colmenar near the hydroelectric station of Buitreras.
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