Castellar de la Frontera

The whole of old Castellar sits inside the walls of a Moorish and Christian fortress on a rock above the Guadarranque reservoir, once a link in the Nasrid frontier defences. In the 1970s its people moved to a new town below, and German newcomers took over the empty houses. All around spread the cork-oak woods of Los Alcornocales, whose bark is still stripped for a living.

Highlights

• Castillo de Castellar, a Nasrid fortress declared a monument in 1963
• Views to Gibraltar and the North African coast on clear days
• Convento de la Almoraima, a Mercedarian friary built in 1603
• Cork-oak forests of the Los Alcornocales natural park
• Prehistoric rock paintings in the caves around the old village

Summary based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.