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Cuevas de Becerro: We left Benarrabá one beautiful morning in late September.
We headed down the A369 road to Ronda. In Ronda we took the A367 road signposted to Campillos. (It actually goes to Ardales)
After around fifteen minutes on the A367 we turned off at Cuevas de Becerro (Caves of the yearling calf!). We had a tasty bocadillo and a coffee at a venta at the entrance to the pueblo before walking into Cuevas de Becerro. The pueblo is long and flat. We're usually not very keen on long flat pueblos, preferring the maze like twisting streets found in the mountain pueblos. However Cuevas de Becerro had a good feel to it. The houses were well kept and the streets were wide and clean.
This fully tiled house with aluminium doors caught the eye!
We wondered what the bathroom inside was like?
The modern church of San Antonio Abad. Alastair Boyd mentions the number of bars in Cuevas de Becerro in his book 'The Sierras of the South'. We can confirm there are a lot! We counted ten in Calle Real a street of 200 houses. A 1:20 ratio.
Altogether we guesstimated there were around twenty in the pueblo.
A good place for a pub crawl.
Here's Jane drinking pure water from a fountain. The view down Calle Real. The Ayuntamiento (Town Hall) of Cuevas de Becerro.
We turned off Calle Real and headed down a side street to a lovely area with a childrens playground and a bandstand.
There was a fountain and lots of beautiful palms. This modern sculpture was in a corner. We walked a little further on. This building is the Cuevas de Becerro Centro Cultural. There was no graffiti in this well kept pueblo. Except for the entire wall of this building. Perhaps this is the answer to stopping indiscriminate spraying. Allow the young artists to officially paint in certain areas? A new urbanización (housing project /estate) had been built in this are of the pueblo. Looking back to the main area of town. We walked down a back street that ran parallel with Calle Real alongside it was a small stream. This small plaza with a large conifer in the centre was at the end of Calle Real. We walked down Calle San Gregorio to the very end of town. There were some animal drinking troughs and some sandy cliffs. Perhaps the Caves of the calf were down here? It was a bit of a wasteland so we didn't venture down. The views across to the hills opposite were worth the walk. Calle San Gregorio. Looking down to the edge of the pueblo. Some views of the campo around Cuevas de Becerro. We walked back up the long Calle Real, we got passed all the bars without succumbing to temptation.
We'd enjoyed our walk around Cuevas de Becerro. It was a lovely pueblo, good houses, facilities, bustling wide clean streets and the people were as usual in Andalucía very friendly. This is a photograph of Cuevas de Becerro taken from the car as we drove passed on our way from the pueblo. We enjoyed our visit to Cuevas de Becerro.
A lovely pueblo definitely worth visiting.
We drove on to Serrato and then El Burgo, a lovely round trip drive through the Sierra de Las Nieves Natural Parque. Recommended!