Gaucín

Officially the first ‘white village’ in the mountain range surrounding Ronda, Gaucín’s municipality encompasses a territory of close to 100 square kilometres and is home to nearly 1,700 people. It lies 125 kilometres from Malaga and about half an hour, by car, from the beach.

The iconic Andalusian village of Gaucín marks the transition from the Costa del Sol to the interior mountain ranges as it lays a little inland from Estepona, nestled under a dramatic outcrop of rock in the Sierra del Hacho at an altitude of more than 600 metres above sea level. Officially the first ‘white village’ in the mountain range surrounding Ronda, it is also one of the prettiest, dramatically perched on a hillside surveying green valleys and overlooked by its eagle’s nest castle, which dates back beyond Moorish times to the days of the Romans.

The views from here reach across rolling green countryside to the blue of the sea, In-between, Gaucín’s municipality encompasses a territory of close to 100 square kilometres that includes a natural reserve and is in total home to nearly 1,700 people. It lies 125 kilometres from Málaga and about half an hour by car from the beach, with fantastic natural scenery, excellent restaurants, luxurious resort hotels and championship golf courses nearby. Estepona is little over half an hour away, with Sotogrande, Gibraltar and Marbella a short distance more. In this way it combines easy access of the coastal region and its amenities with a truly natural country setting.