This mountain range offers a wide variety of easy trails with rewarding scenery and a pleasant walk through the forest.
But it has also trails of greater difficulty, with longer routes and steeper slopes, suitable for the more adventurous; such is the case of the trails that reach the summit of the Concha peak (1,215 m) and the Cruz del Juanar.
This hiking trail provides the chance to enjoy one of the best views of the Marbella coast from the Sierra Blanca mountains, through two strategically located viewpoints known as the 'corzo', meaning roe deer, and the 'macho montés', meaning the male mountain goat.
The Cruz del Juanar
The Cruz del Juanar is visible almost all the way up to the Macho Montés viewpoint, located just in front of it in an easterly direction. There is an iron cross at the top, and legend says that fishermen in a dense fog at sea lost all sense of the direction of the beach.
The thick fog lifted for a moment, just long enough for one of the fishermen to catch a glimpse of Juanar’s peak.
Knowing in which direction to turn back, they saved their lives. In gratitude, they climbed to the top and placed the cross, under which a mass is still celebrated today after the popular pilgrimage.
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