Gazules del Sol

Gazules del Sol — garden apartments on the river road to Benahavís, with the school run on foot.

Where Gazules del Sol sits

Gazules del Sol stands on the A-7175, the road that follows the Guadalmina river inland from the coast towards Benahavís village. You are a few kilometres below the village itself — about five minutes by car to its restaurant tables, and roughly the same down to the beaches at Guadalmina and San Pedro de Alcántara. The A-7 junction sits at the foot of the road, which keeps Puerto Banús around ten minutes away and Málaga airport generally under the hour. There is a supermarket within a few minutes' walk of the gate, and Atalaya International School — the bilingual Colegio Atalaya, teaching ages three to eighteen — is a short, flat walk away in the neighbouring El Marqués urbanisation.

The homes — garden apartments first

Ground-floor garden apartments set the tone here, with middle-floor flats and a run of penthouses above them. The development went up in the late 2000s: two- and three-bedroom homes, most between roughly 120 and 155 square metres, with marble floors, generous terraces or private gardens, and underground parking and storage as standard. Upper levels look over the communal gardens to the hills behind and, in places, the sea. On price, two-bedroom apartments generally sit in the high €400,000s to mid €500,000s, while three-bedroom garden apartments and the better penthouses typically run from around €500,000 to €800,000 — sensible value beside comparable gated communities closer to Puerto Banús.

Pools, spa and the people you'll meet

The communal grounds are the real argument. Residents share four outdoor pools including a children's pool, a heated indoor pool with spa and sauna, a gym and a paddle tennis court, all behind a gated perimeter with 24-hour security and CCTV. That combination — secure, self-contained, school next door — explains who you meet here: families with children at Atalaya, golfers working through the local courses, and owners who want a lock-up-and-leave that earns its keep in the rental season. Golf is everywhere within ten minutes or so — Atalaya and El Paraíso towards the coast, Los Arqueros and Monte Mayor in the hills, and El Higueral's nine holes along the river on the way up to the village.

How we work in Benahavís

We have sold and rented homes along the Benahavís road for long enough to know which blocks in Gazules del Sol catch the afternoon sun, which gardens give real privacy, and which asking prices have drifted ahead of the community. We'll always tell you which homes are over-priced and why — it saves everyone time. If a garden apartment with the school run on foot and lunch in the village five minutes up the road sounds like your sort of arrangement, drop us a line.