Setenil de las Bodegas …
The town’s Castilian name came from the Roman Latin phrase septem nihil = “Seven Times Nothing”. It has been the frontier between the Moorish and the Christian for 200 years. Only after seven sieges it was captured by the Christian reconquest in 1484. In Addition to maintaining the Arab olive and almond groves, the new Christian settlers introduced vineyards – bodegas – which was flourishing until it was wiped out by the Europe-wide Phylloxera infestation in the 1860s.
Another Pueblo blanco …
A walk through the village on the hillside. The castle ruin crowns the top of the hill. Drink in the village bar. Hustle and bustle on the central place. We leave Setenil de las Bodegas heading for the Grazalema nature park in southwest direction.
Zahara de la Sierra
Zahara-El Gastor Reservoir
Grazalema´s emty village square
The rustic Tabanco El Pasaje, Depacho de vinos, located in calle Santa Maria 8 and found in December 1925, is considered to be the oldest Sherry-Bar in operation in Jerez
