Finca Buenvino is located in the heart of the Natural Park of the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche, one of Andalucia’s unspoiled green and forested hill ranges. It is perfect for walking, bird watching and visiting the many white villages strung along walking or cycling trails. The finca lies just 8Kms from the beautiful town of Aracena, adjoining southern edge of Extremadura, and Spain's border with Portugal.

Aracena (population of 7,500) is the capital of the region and gives its name to the mountain range in which it lies and to the Natural Park which surrounds it; one of the most important protected areas of the Community of Andalucia. The town centre has many monuments of cultural interest. Crowning the hill are the ancient castle and the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, which preserves the Almohad tower, once the minaret of the mosque that preceded it. 

The Christian conquest that drove out the Moors was carried out by the Portuguese King Sancho II at the beginning of the thirteenth century, who sought to annex the region as the High Sierra of the Algarve, but the intervention of the Castilian King Ferdinand III and his son Alfonso X made Aracena part of the kingdom of Seville in 1255. The area remained sparsely populated until the end of the thirteenth century, when King Sancho IV began to bring in settlers from Leon, Asturias and Galicia, and reinstated the fortress on the hill, in order to defend the area from the neighbouring kingdom of Portugal. Its defence was entrusted to the order of Santiago. Repopulation was not an immediate success. It was not until the 15th century that a true settlement of the area was achieved, the demographic crisis having been caused by the epidemics of the previous century as well as frequent conflicts with Portugal. During the Middle Ages, the town, which originally huddled around the castle for safety, continued its expansion down the hillside towards the valley. The grandiose project of the Parish Church started to be built in 1478, but was never completed in its entirety. Even so it remains impressive; although it was torched during the civil war, and many of the works of art were destroyed, a new roof was added a few years ago and the church has regained some of its former glory.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the town grew with renewed momentum and structures such as the Town Hall of Santa Catalina, the Casino de Arias Montano and the Market Square added to the wealth of interesting buildings.