🏛️ Historical Heritage
⛪ Church of La Expectación
A 16th-century church in Órgiva with a striking twin-spired bell tower, unique in the Alpujarra, presiding over the main square of the district capital.
Church / Cathedral🌿 Nature
🌰 Alpujarra Chestnut Woods
Around villages such as Pórtugos or Mecina Bombarón stretch thousand-year-old chestnut woods planted in medieval times, whose twisted trunks create fairy-tale landscapes.
Nature🍽️ Gastronomy
🍳 Alpujarra Platter
A hearty mountain dish with poor man's potatoes, fried egg, Trevélez ham, pork loin, sausage and black pudding, served in the high Alpujarra villages such as Trevélez or Lanjarón.
Gastronomy⛰️ Contraviesa Wines
High mountain wines grown in the Sierra de la Contraviesa, in villages such as Albondón and Albuñol. Famous for their robust must and for reds and whites of great character grown above 1,000 metres.
Gastronomy🐐 Kid Goat with Garlic
Kid goat fried with plenty of garlic, white wine and crushed almonds, typical of the villages of the Granada Alpujarra and the Málaga Axarquía.
Gastronomy🏄 Sports Activities
🚴 Alpujarra Cycling Route
A balcony road linking Lanjarón, Órgiva, Pampaneira and Trevélez halfway up Sierra Nevada, with constant gradients and white villages clinging to the slopes.
Cycling route Hard🐴 Horse Riding in the Alpujarra
Multi-day rides along the bridle paths linking the white villages of Sierra Nevada, among Moorish irrigation channels and chestnut groves.
Horse riding Moderate🪂 Paragliding at Lanjarón
A take-off at the gateway to the Alpujarra with Sierra Nevada behind and the Guadalfeo valley ahead, with powerful thermals in spring and summer.
Free flight Moderate🥾 Poqueira Gorge Trail
A circular route linking Pampaneira, Bubión and Capileira along Moorish irrigation channels, among chestnut trees and the Alpujarra's traditional architecture.
Hiking trail Moderate🥾 Río Dúrcal Trail
A water route along the riverbed between rock walls, with pools for swimming and the Los Siete Ojos aqueduct as a backdrop. Ideal in summer.
Hiking trail Moderate🥾 Seven Lakes Trail
The climb from Trevélez to a glacial cirque at 2,900 metres with seven meltwater lakes, the natural antechamber of Mulhacén. Two thousand metres of ascent.
Hiking trail Hard⛰️ Three-Thousanders Traverse
The most demanding high mountain traverse in Andalusia: five days linking the fifteen summits above three thousand metres in Sierra Nevada.
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