Ardales is a town and municipality in the Province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain.

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.

A paper published in 2021 disclosed that the Cave of Ardales (cueva de doña Trinidad Grund) contains pigments deposited by Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals some 64,800 years ago.

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