Casares white hill town at dusk, Andalucia, Spain
Casares is between the Ronda highland, the Costa del Sol, and the Campo de Gibraltar. A landscape of red rocks split by deep gorges in the Sierra Bermeja; of forests and circles of pines which have survived the fires, and in the shadows climb to the peak to join in Los Reales ( m.) to the advance of the firs of the higland. Further west, the sierra is converted into an observation point of limestone in Crestellina to watch the entrance to the Ronda valley of Genal from its peak. There, amid gorges and ridges, lives a colony of tawny vultures of the peninsular. These birds with almost two metre wingspans, cross the Casares' skies daily, from Crestellina to Utrera, adding another attractiveness to the area with their majestic flight. La Utrera is a small sierra crowned by the karstic forms, typical of the Torcal of Antequera, although in smaller dimensions, situated to the south of the municipality; at the foot of the deep fissure which divides it in two (Canuto de la Utrera) there is an almost unknown spot which history refers to the Roman baths of La Hedionda. In the western half of the municipality, the Guadiaro valley is the protagonist after collecting its tributary the Genal. Its wandering course through the alluvium plain is accompanied by plots which extend to the sea, now in the lands of Cádiz. Between these plots and the sierras, smooth hills open up covered with cereal fields and pasturelands which are a clear presage of the Campo de Gibraltar. And in the middle of this countryside is Casares, half hidden between the foothills of the sierra, stretched across the mountain sides of the great cliff, crowned by history with the remains of a castle which forms one of the most beautiful villages in the province. The findings in the shelters and caves of Ferrete, Crestellina, Utrera, Pelliscoso, the Novia hill and the Cortijo de Alechipe show the presence of pre-historic man in these lands. El Cortijo de Alechipe has also brought interesting remains which
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