GUARO

The noble county villa of Guaro is a chalk white town situated between the Ronda highland with the Guadalhorce valley, and behind the Costa del Sol.

Because of the archaeological remains found in different places in the municipal district, we know that there was a prehistoric settlement in the Copper Age (Ardite area), later it was inhabited by Romans (Polvillar area) and by the Arabs (Guaro el Viejo area), near the Grande river.

Regarding the festivities there are: Las Mayordomas, on the 7th and 8th of December in honour of the patron Virgin Inmaculada. The main festivities at the end of August which pay farewell to the summer and the end of different agricultural chores. The cultural and artistic heritage is formed by the church of San Miguel, the Archangel from the 16th century and the Chapel of San Isidro which has a modern construction and Andalusian style.

The gastronomy of Guaro is the most varied in the Park, with kid stews, game birds or rabbit, almond soups, boiled soups and ‘poncima’, accompanied by brown or white bread, olives and traditional home-made cold meats (blood sausages, salamis and blackpuddings). But no doubt the most renown products are derived from almonds, the crop of Guaro par excellence, such as: almond cakes, almond bites, almond lardy cakes, and fried and baked wine rusks.

Guaro is one of the most singular towns in the area of the Natural Park of Sierra de las Nieves, an obligatory visit, where the stillness and tranquillity are breathed in every typically Andalusian corner of each of its streets which are joined to the perpetual aroma of its almonds trees in flower and in which the more than 2.000 inhabitants are pleased to received the visitor.

Guaro basic information

Sierra de las
Nieves