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that left their print. It was precisely during Roman times that whitewashing was introduced, but it was later during the pandemic plague waves during 14th and later centuries when whitewashing exterior but also interior walls of houses and churches - the latter often visited by disease-affected
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inhabitants - became predominant. These villages punctuate or are close to natural parks in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, including
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There are proposed routes to visit some of the villages. Of interest are the ones close to
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Gaucín
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