What’s on in the Serrania de Ronda

The popular restaurant is run by a cooperative of young people who believe in the future of the area. Raul is in the kitchen and Carmen runs front of house. They opened to the public in autumn 2002. It is 19 Km. from Ronda on the A-369 to Algeciras in Atajate (Malaga), and the building is very visible at the entrance of the village. The name, “Audalazar” is one of the tributary streams of the Genal river, which is between Atajate and Alpandeire, but is also a Moorish village that disappeared in 1570, and comes from the Arabic Wadi-al-jara, Guidazara, Vidazara, Udazara, whose meaning was “river stones”.

The beautiful white village (or pueblo blanco) of Gaucín, perched high up in the Serranía de Ronda, is famous for its spectacular views. At Hotel La Fructuosa, where we have created an oasis of calm in the very heart of this lovely village, our rooms and terraces have stunning panoramas stretching right across the Genal Valley to Gibraltar and Morocco in the distance. Our boutique hotel has five individually decorated rooms offering complimentary Wi-Fi, TVs and minifridges. Some feature whirlpool tubs, wood-beam ceilings and/or exposed brick walls. Breakfast is served in a former wine-pressing room or on a terrace that has views of the sea. There’s also a cozy restaurant. Our building is about 200 years old and has been open to guests for a century or so in various incarnations. At the start of the 20th century it was a popular guest house called La Española (meaning The Spaniard), but all the locals called it La Fructuosa, or Fructuosa’s place, because that was the name of the owner. In 1997, Jesús and Luis bought the house in order to revive this much-loved landmark. The building had been abandoned for more than 15 years and was in a sorry state. After much reconstruction and renovation […]

An 11-bedroom hotel, restaurant, chiringuito and saltwater swimming pool conveniently and peacefully located on the outskirts of Cortes de la Frontera but within a two-minute walk of the centre. The hotel offers stunning views from its restaurant and extensive outside terraces and is conveniently located between the Los Alcornocales and Sierra de Grazalema Natural Parks and the Guadiaro Valley. The property offers homely accommodation and the bar and restaurant are open (except Wednesdays) for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. Two function rooms are available catering for 100 and 60 persons. A conference room is available for private meetings. The hotel offers a 24-hour front desk, airport transfers, a tour desk and free WiFi. The area is popular for cycling, and bike hire is available at Hotel Rural and Restaurant Las Camaretas. The hotel can help organise horseriding, walking and cycle routes; potholing; mushroom walks and workshops; guided visits to cheese and ham factories, the Cueva del Gato, the Cueva de la Pileta and the vulture feeding station. Ronda is 33 km from the accommodation, while Grazalema is 44 km away. The nearest airports are at Malaga-Costa del Sol and Jerez and there is a railway station near Cortes de […]

Ceramist Catherine Hunter has exhibited at international art fairs and galleries. She welcomes visitors during her work in her Gaucín studio. However, as there are no set opening times it is preferable to make an appointment to visit. She is currently offering ceramic classes for adults.

Fantastic bar/restaurant in the square in Montejaque. The restaurant offers a wide variety of tapas, gourmet tapas, paellas and grilled meats. They offer top quality products and a warm welcome from the staff. “We invite you to come and try us. We are sure you will come again.”

15 places, in beds, bunk beds and on couches, distributed in six independent rooms but linked together. The living rooms and bedrooms are all asymmetrical and irregular, one of them, on the remains of a Roman bridge, on which the building stands, also having a viewpoint-solarium and a fishing spot within the river. Inside the building, there is a complete bathroom and a few metres away, a pavilion with three showers, three toilets and six sinks. It has a large private area with a pool for the exclusive use of the mill and shares the grounds of the rest of the farm and its games with the Molino el Ingles and Villa Sandía. We emphasise that its architecture and distribution is totally different from what we are used to. Being designed for a single group of friends or family, we escape from the traditional closed rooms that isolate people and we form something very different from what exists. Here privacy is achieved with curtain partitions, stairs or different levels, there being no internal doors, except in the shower and toilet. It is very difficult to explain, and although there are several compartments with some privacy, there is also a round […]

Welcome to Andalucia Country Houses, a family-owned Estate Agency based in Andalucia, Southern Spain. Since the late 1990s we have been selling country properties and traditional village houses in some of the most beautiful areas of inland Andalusia, to clients from all over the world. Whatever you are looking for, whether it be a luxury country villa, a traditional cortijo or finca, a working farm, a vineyard, an equestrian property, small hotel or guesthouse, bed and breakfast, country home or character village house, then you have come to the right company. The key to our success is our commitment and high level of service to our customers, both prior and after-sales. Our extensive knowledge of Andalucia and personal knowledge of all the properties we offer to our customers. From our base in the beautiful Serrania de Ronda, we cover Ronda and all the villages of the Serrania de Ronda, stretching from Gaucin to Arriate. In Cadiz province we offer properties all around the Campo de Gibraltar, Jimena de la Frontera and San Pablo de Buceite. Closer to the coastal areas of the Costa del Sol we offer property in Casares and the immediate inland areas along the Western Costa del […]

The Andalucian Cycling Experience is the longest established (since 2005) road cycling holiday, mountain biking and bike tour operator in the Serrania de Ronda, Grazalema Natural Park and Sierra de Nieves. We specialise in organising, Mountain Bike Biking Holidays, Road Cycling Holidays, Leisure Cycling Holidays, Triathlon Winter Training Camps, Family Cycling Holidays, Self Guided Point-to-Point Tours, Vegetarian & Vegan Biking Holidays and Winter Cycling holidays. From guided cycling vacations to self-led tours, short breaks or weekend trips away to a fortnight and more. We are based in Montecorto in the Grazalema Natural Park near Ronda and are just over an hour away from Malaga, Jerez and Seville airports. The Serrania de Ronda is a cyclists paradise with mile after mile of fabulous mountain bike trails and well-surfaced asphalt roads too! This is one of our main playgrounds for riding (in fact we refer to it as ‘our office’). The diversity of the countryside allows us too ride through the Serrania de Ronda with families, leisure cyclists, mountain bikers and roadies but more importantly provide a route suitable to all the wide-ranging requirements of these groups whilst on their cycling vacations. During our cycling vacations for family groups and leisure riders […]

The cuisine of La Fructuosa has received a new inflection since the arrival of Javier Ruiz Vargas in the kitchen. Our chef, with his international experience on three continents, is always in search of the best local products and makes his culinary creations a delight for all the senses. We have a spectacular roof terrace on the top floor of the hotel which our guests or other visitors may book for private dinners or cocktail parties. Here you will have “the best views in Europe”, in the words of the Sunday Times (21 January, 2018). La Fructuosa organises regular live music events where a variety of local and international artists perform jazz, blues, classical, flamenco and pop music. During the high season we host weekly music evenings outside on the terrace; and in the winter, we hold tasting dinners followed by concerts on a monthly basis. We are at your disposal for the organisation of meals and family celebrations, with friends or for companies.