This village is the entrance to the White Villages
Route and half the village is an improbable looking
vertically slashed rock high above the River Guadalete.
Modern day Arcos is a true centre of tourist interest
one of the most beautiful towns in Spain for its rives,
its olive and orange trees and fertile orchards where
herds of bullfighting stock and beautiful horses roam.
It is beautiful also for the impressive Tajo canyon
and for the regal façades of its baroque and
Renaissance houses. Its streets are narrow and there
are arches in abundance, sometimes serving ad the
exterior arches of the parish churches, of which the
church of San Pedro and Santa María is the
most outstanding. Holy week is another integral part
of Arcos. It is with reason that it has been declared
of National Tourist Interest, involving as it does
an unsurpassed reproduction of the Passion and Death
of Christ in the steep, narrow and winding streets
of the village where the processional stages barely
fit in. At nearby La Molinera Lake you can practice
such diverse sports as hang-gliding and horseback
riding or all sorts of water sports. To get to know
this jewel of Andalusia plan a guided tour in the
Tourism Office.
