Our first encounter with the white cities of Andalusia was Vejer de la Frontera, followed by Arcos de la Fronterea. We didn’t really visit them 100%, we just parked our car and walked around for a bit, enjoying the view.
Vejer de la Frontera has a really nice and cozy center. There are a lot of small streets you can walk through. That’s how we encountered a nice little shop with some sweets and cheeserolls. You can also walk by the Castillo de Vejer de la Frontera, located on the highest part of the city.
Arcos de la Frontera wasn’t as nice to walk through as Vejer de la Frontera, but when you go up to the Basílica de Santa María de la Asunción you can go to the Balcón de la Peña Nueva and enjoy a stunning view.
At the end of our trip, we visited our last few White Cities. We started with Júzcar, which isn’t a white city anymore. The city turned blue due to the Smurfs-movie they made here. There are still some reminders left in the city. From drawings on the walls, to huge Smurfs and mushrooms in the city. I kind of felt like Júzcar once was very popular and touristic, but now turned some sort of Ghost Town. We didn’t saw any people, except for a few lost tourists like us.
Our next stop along the way was beautiful Ronda. We could’ve stayed longer here! It’s a big city with a lot of things to do. There’s a new part, but when you cross the bridge, you enter the old part of the city and you can enjoy the famous view over the bridge. It is really (really really) touristic here. Which was kind of funny when we were waiting for our food in the 100 Montaditos. Nobody knew how it worked, the employees couldn’t understand the tourists, the tourists couldn’t understand the employees… But the weather was nice and sunny so nobody could care less ;-).
We left the white cities behind us with the beautiful Setenil de las Bodegas, built into rock overhangs. We didn’t spend a lot of time here, as it is a small town, but it’s such a beautiful view to see those white house inside the grey rock.
Around the world in a lifetime 