The pueblo blanco El Gastor is bounded by the El Algarín and Las Grajas mountains. The region has been settled since prehistoric times and around El Gastor evidence has been found of dolmens, or Megalithic burial grounds. The most famous of these is El Charcón, commonly known as the ‘Tumba del Gigante’. This ‘Giant’s Tomb’ dating from the Bronze Age is formed by three-meter high stone pillars and a nine-meter long passageway, similar to the Dolmen de Menga and others near Antequera. The town is crazy steep and it was almost scary to drive up through the town. Then the walk up to the Dolmens was also ridiculously steep. A fun event of the town is a running of the bulls’ type of thing with three separate bulls at different times of the day go through the main streets in Gastor. How’s that for traffic issues. Gastor also has a museum dedicated to El Tempranillo, one of the most famous bandits in 19th-century Andalucía.
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