From www.casacampana.com:
“Local legend has it that Arcos de la Frontera was founded around the time of the great biblical flood and was built originally by King Briga, Noah's grandson, some 2000 years before Christ.
On the same site the Romans later founded the town of Arcobriga, a name which derives from the Latin word 'Arx-Arcis', meaning high fortress.
Following the Roman age, the Moorish period is considered the most important in the history of Arcos de la Frontera (the Moors called it Medina Ar-Kosch) during which the town was incorporated into a kingdom of Spain called the Caliphate of Córdoba.
During the 13th century the site occupied a decisive and dangerous position on the border between the Moors and the Christians, hence the suffix 'de la Frontera' ('of the Frontier'). Ferdinand III, who was then the King of León and Castille, took control of the town and changed its name from Medina Ar-Kosch to Arcos de la Frontera, a name it has kept since then.”
As you can see from this historical information, everyone wants to be in Arcos. And why do they want to be in Arcos? Because of it’s strategic location of being perched high on a cliff. And what does that mean for me? Sore leg muscles. I have yet to find a horizontal street in town. Good for defending territory against the Moors, bad for flip-flops.
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Think of how natural it would seem to live in San Francisco after Arcos. Not that I'm suggesting anything -- I'd never do that.
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