View across the top of the village
White villages of Andalucia, (Pueblos Blancos) Andalusia Spain
Granada airport is only a short car ride away and offers visitors the option of using either Malaga airport or Granada airport. Both are used by the budget airlines.
The municipality of Villanueva del Trabuco is watered by the rivers of the Guadalhorce and Higueral, on whose banks various trekking routes are signposted. The town centre is beautiful, especially in the Barrio de los Villares, the oldest barrio in the town, with winding streets and low, whitewashed houses decorated with window pots. In the centre is the Plaza del Prado, the social and business centre of the town, where one can find the Fuente de los Tres Caños, from which drinking water flows all the year around.
Villanueva del Trabuco has been populated for a very long time, although it is not one of the oldest towns in the province. The present urban area was first settled in the time of the re-conquest, but some historians believe the Romans had a settlement here too. The first documented evidence of the town named Trabuco dates from April 12th 1620, and the relevant documents are now in the Municipal Archives of Archidona. It refers to a meadow called Trabuco with more than 300 fanegas (a grain measurement) that belonged to the municipality of Archidona.
The urban centre grew up in the early 1700s, when Carlos III decided to repopulate areas of Andalucía with German and Flemish settlers. The town gained its independence from Archidona in 1808.