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Region: Sierra de Cadiz - province autonomous region: Andalusia

Populations (19): Alcalá del Valle, Algar, Algodonales, Arcos de la Frontera, Benaocaz, Bornos, El Bosque, El Gastor, waiting, Grazalema, Olvera, Prado del Rey, Puerto Serrano, Setenil de las Bodegas, Torre Alhaquime, Ubrique, Villaluenga de el Rosario, Villamartin and Zahara de la Sierra.

Geographic data: The region of the Sierra de Cádiz - villages are connected with the area of the countryside and the Costa del Sol and the province of Seville.

Tourist interests: inhabited since the earliest times, the Sierra de Cadiz has a valuable archaeological heritage, with debris ranging from the lower Palaeolithic (around 250,000 years ago) to the castellano-granadinas fortifications of the middle ages, passing through important Iberian or Roman settlements.

Natural tourism: In the Shire are located two protected natural areas (Grazalema and Alcornocales).

Gastronomy: cooked asparagus in all its varieties, the Thistles, garlic or tomato soups, soups pegás or particular, the alboronía, groupers, loin in lard, cabbage, chicken field, loin honey and stuffed Iberian pork, among many others. But perhaps the most typical dish is killing stew, made with chick peas, white beans and products of the bloodshed, which take place in many homes.

The pastry is another of the gastronomic delights of the Sierra de Cadiz, being very present at Al-Andalus heritage. Sample of this bakery are the ganotes pestiños, hornazos, fritters, honey toast, cakes of Easter, cakes of goat cheese, snow-covered eggs, piñonates, ring-shaped egg biscuits...