What’s on in the Serrania de Ronda

Eugenio Márquez Villanueva is the Mayor of this attractive white village in the Genal Valley.

Málaga Airport, officially Málaga–Costa del Sol Airport since June 2011, is the fourth busiest airport in Spain. It is an important airport for Spanish tourism as it is the main international airport serving the Costa del Sol. It is 8 km (5.0 miles) southwest of Málaga. The airport has flight connections to over 60 countries worldwide, and over 13.7 million passengers passed through it in 2014. The airport operates with three terminals. The third terminal adjacent to the previous two opened on 15 March 2010, and flight operations started on 16 March 2010. A second runway opened at the airport on 26 June 2012. Málaga Airport is the busiest international airport of Andalucía, accounting for 85 percent of the region’s non-domestic traffic. It offers a wide variety of international destinations. The airport has a daily link with twenty cities in Spain and over one hundred cities in Europe. Direct flights also operate to Africa, the Middle East and also to North America in the summer season. Airlines with a base at the airport are Air Europa, Norwegian, Ryanair and Vueling.

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Hotel Molino Cuatro Paradas is a charmingly restored flour mill located just outside the popular village of Benaojan on the banks of the river Guadiaro near Ronda, Malaga, Spain. It has recently been converted into a comfortable country hotel with a variety of accommodation options. This rural hotel is the perfect location to explore the mountains and white villages of the Serrania de Ronda and enjoy the stunning scenery and wildlife in the adjacent national parks of Sierra de Grazalema and Sierra de las Nieves. Whether you are a walker, bird-watcher, caver or simply wish to explore the area by car, you will be entranced by the beauty and variety of the mountain scenery. Between the craggy ridges of the Sierras de Libar and Grazelema and the more rounded slopes of the Sierra de las Nieves lie the steep valleys of the rivers Genal and Guadiaro. With the added attraction of the pueblos blancos (white villages) which provide beautiful settings, historic interest and a source of needed refreshment, the area offers a remarkable wealth and variety of experience to visitors of all types. This country hotel near Ronda in Spain has ten beautifully furnished hotel rooms and a self-contained apartment.

A great restaurant, located alongside the municipal swimming pool in Jimera de Libar, serving an excellent range of tapas, snacks, traditional food and meats on the grill. Plenty of parking, large dining room with open fireplace, terrace with stunning views of the Guadiaro valley and Sierra de Libar.

Pharmacist: Pilar Tabuyo Enriquez

The Mayor of this pretty village near Ronda is Melchor Conde Marín.

A bar and restaurant with a tradition from its roots. From 1933 until now, three generations of the same family have run the Bar Restaurante Barroso. In 1933 there was Sebastian Jarillo Lobo and Antonia Gil Delgado and his asadura de chivo en salsa, and the first bar with radio and coffee. After another generation with Jose Barroso Rodriguez and Antonia Jarillo Ramos, who used the bar as a complement to his butchers shop and specialised in Ibérico pork with only one fish tapas, the Pavía, which had many followers. Following the family tradition it is still run by the family and their children – following the same traditions of yesteryear.

The Mayoress of this mountain white village is Maria del Carmen Gutiérrez Jiménez. Parauta is in the North of the Genal Valley, and part of its municipality is in the Natural Park of “Sierra de las Nieves”