Ardales is a town and municipality in the Province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of

Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a "historical nationality". The t ...

in southern

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

. The municipality is approximately 62.5 kilometres from Málaga. On the hill above the town is the historic church and higher still are the ruins of the Ardales Castle. At the peak of the hill is the hermitage Ermita del Calvario. The infamous ''

Caminito del Rey ''El Caminito del Rey'' (The King's Little Path) is a walkway pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Ardales in the province of Málaga, Spain. Its name derives from the original name of ''Camino del Rey'' (King's P ...

'' is nearby. A paper published in 2021 disclosed that the Cave of Ardales (''cueva de doña Trinidad Grund'') contains pigments deposited by Middle Paleolithic

Neanderthal Neanderthals (, also ''Homo neanderthalensis'' and erroneously ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis''), also written as Neandertals, are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. While the ...

s some 64,800 years ago.

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"Ardales, Andalusia, Spain" Motion Views
photographs of Ardales
Municipalities in the Province of Málaga {{Andalusia-geo-stub