Here,
in this incredible area of 52.000 Hectares, water pours down
with a force and speed that could almost be considered a monsoon.
This explains its uneven landscape, embroidered with canyons,
caves, gorges, valleys, cornices and slopes. Its soluble power
was the cause of this slow geographical violence. Millions
of years of persistent wear have created a generous habitat,
an almost unbelievable (given the proximity of man) refuge
for animals and plants. Grazalema, at the few intact forests
that remain in Spain, one of the last protected reserves of
the European Continent. In spite of the fact that it may seem
that this mountain range forms a sort of climatic island (the
driest area of Spain, the Tabernas desert in Almeria, is only
some 300 kilometres away), it contains features that are characteristic
of its Mediterranean enviroment, with thirsty summers and
rainy winters.
One would wonder then what circumstances converge to make
this area, and no other, the stormiest area of the country.
Thirteen
villages are contained within this natural park. In the province
of Cádiz: Grazalema, Zahara de la Sierra, Villaluenga
del Rosario, Benaocaz, Ubrique, El Bosque, Prado del Rey,
El Gastor and in Málaga: Benaoján, Montejaque,
Cortes de la Frontera, Jimena de Libar and Ronda. Most of
them share a common feature: whitewash. White specks perched
on the boulders, among intense greens and greys. One of the
most appreciated legacies is the mass of trees: holm oaks,
cork oaks, gall oaks and above all, the Spanish fir, a botanical
relic from the Tertiary age that can only be found in the
South of the Peninsula.
Back
in the "civilisation", we must point out the cultural
richness of these villages: their excellent and varied gastronomy,
their special celebrations or their ancestral crafts, materialised
in the manufacturing of blankets, esparto utensils and leatherwork.
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