Benarrabá is a small town just 35 kilometres from Ronda , within “El Valle de Genal”, with a population of some 700 inhabitants whose urban centre is located by the mountainside, creating twisting, steep and angular streetlets which maintain a strong Muslim impression, only betrayed by the dome of glazed tiles of the tower of its parish church.

Benarrabá has a very famous castle due to its strategic positioning and considered the watchtower of the valley; it overlooked the towns of Gaucín, Jubrique, Genalguacil and Algatocín. Its name is derived from the term Banu Rabbah, name of the Berber tribe which built the town on the side of “El Monte Porón”.

The most interesting festivities are those which dramatise some scenes of “El Auto Sacramental de los Reyes Magos” (Inacting of the Three Kings at the Epiphany) on the 5th of January, apart from the town´s holidays and feasts on the 20th of January and the 24th of June in honour of San Juan.

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