Around the corner a man was singing in Spanish with Arab inflections as he scraped the sill of a second-story window. “Ah, there’s a man who loves his work,” my wife, Joan, called up to him.

Spain is known for its classic beauty and its simple elegance. And there is no better place to experience this beautiful simplicity than Spain’s enchanting pueblos blancos, or white villages in ...

This Jan. 17, 2013 photo shows the narrow road of Setenil de las Bodegas. Many of the houses and stores in this Spanish "pueblo blanco," or white village, are carved into river-eroded rock. (AP ...

The pueblos blancos - and some of their white neighbours - were developed by the Moors who conquered much of Spain from the early 18th century, and remained in Andalucia for nearly 800 years.

Scattered across the hills of Andalusia and along the sun-kissed Mediterranean coast of Malaga, Spain’s whitewashed villages - pueblos blancos - offer more than just postcard-perfect views. With ...

SETENIL DE LAS BODEGAS, Spain (AP) — As dusk light slanted across this southern Spanish hamlet, the whitewashed houses and the cliffs they’re carved into turned golden.A gaggle of boys … ...