Andalucia 2019 – Part 2 – Grazalema

Grazalema is much smaller than Ronda, very much a village, sitting more or less in the middle of the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park (https://www.andalucia.com/province/cadiz/grazalema/home.htm).

It’s a very pretty village

Stonework and white front door with many blue and white flower pots
A very pretty example of the local front doors, but there were several that were just as pretty
Panorama over the whole village, white houses with terracotta orange roof slates
This was the view from near the top of the hill. There’s a reason it’s called “the village of the white houses”.

with roots back to the Visigoths.

Sign saying the fountains are of putative Visigoth origin
I am not making the Visigoth part up
Four fountain gargoyles with pipes in their mouths.  The gargoyles are made of worn stone.
Aren’t they adorable?

It also has vultures.

Sign about the local vultures.  Sign is written in Spanish.
I am also not making the vultures up

No-one in the coach party thought they saw one, but there were some very carnivorous-looking silhouettes in the sky.

Grazalema also has an excellent bull-related statue.

Statue is two men in front of a bull.  The bull has got loose from the rope holding it.  The figures look like they are about to try to run away.
I choose to believe the bull got free and is about to make a break for it.

Much like Pamplona, it has a day where a bull is allowed to run.

Following a short visit to Grazalema, our coach party moved on to Seville.

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