The Sierra de las Nieves natural park is only a few kilometres from Juzcar and covers an area of about 30km by 20km. There are no tarmac roads within the park but you can use the extensive network of forest tracks in a normal hire car provided that you drive slowly.

The easiest way to enter the park is from the Ronda to San Pedro road about 1 km south of the turning to Juzcar. Our apartments make an excellent base for exploring Sierra de las Nieves.

The park centres on Mount Torrecilla (1,919 metres) which you can walk to the summit of in about 4 hours, return trip. The park is based on limestone and has deep ravines and spectacular gorges as well as the world’s third deepest sink which descends to 1,100 metres.

Sierra de las Nieves is at the climatic boundary of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and has an original and varied flora. The park also contains one of the biggest populations of Spanish Ibex in Andalusia, together with fox, otter, roe deer and wild boar.