Granada

What to see in Granada

Sierra de Quéntar

The white water river accompanies us by the ascent that takes us to Quéntar, (people created at the time of the Muslim occupation in century XIII, where silk was produced and that counts on a representation of Moors and Christians that commemorate the conquest and reconquest ), Gives us passage to the mountainous area of ​​Quéntar, mainly wooded mass of repopulation pine. Accompanying us always the white water river, small, with a flow of which one could not think that it will form the great dam of Quéntar (13 cubic hectometres of capacity), constructed in years 70, one of the two that supply of water to the city from Granada. In its route through a sinuous and little frequented road, we find the ecosystems of a mountain river, with streams, waterfalls, rafts and wooded spaces, where points are still conserved in which the authentic vegetation of riverbank survives, although in the greater Part of the channel is altered by reforestation of pines and the presence of avenues planted to give shade.

What to see in the Quéntar

Church of the Incarnation S.XVI, popular festivals of Moors and Christians, hot springs (70 years), trekking routes and btt, birth white water river.

Shire of Guadix and Marquesado del Zenete

The region of Guadix and El Marquesado, formed by an immense plateau, is located east of Granada. Composed of the locality of Guadix and the surrounding towns, this area enjoys a rich archaeological and historical legacy. Landscape of contrasts between the slopes that prelude the Sierra Nevada and the arid lunar landscape of the Eastern Mountains. Among the reddish tones of the Hoya de Guadix and the green valleys of the rivers that bathe the region. Crossing of roads from the most remote antiquity, we find in its territory dolmens, Iberian remains and the Roman city of Acci (Guadix) founded by Julio Cesar. In the 8th century the Muslims arrived and although they were expelled eight centuries later, the Islamic legacy still survives in Mudejar churches, cultivation techniques and Arab place names.

What to see in Comarca de Guadix and Marquesado del Zenete

Cathedral of Guadix, center of interpretation of troglodyteism (beas de Guadix), Mudejar church Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (Jérez del Marquesado), Jérez del Marquesado, Lanteira, Alquife mines, Calahorra Castle, Route of the chestnut trees of Hueneja, caves of purullena, gorafe, treking park natural-national Sierra Nevada.

Alpujarra

The Alpujarra is a natural paradise formed by a series of picturesque white villages of great beauty that extend between the southern slope of Sierra Nevada and the Mediterranean coast, between the provinces of Granada and Almeria. An area of ​​contrasts, with a rugged relief formed by valleys and ravines. By the Alpujarra have been passed Iberians, Celts, Romans and Visigoths, but it was the Muslims who left the greatest trace during his presence in the time of Al-Andalus. Not in vain, the Alpujarra was the place where the Nasrid kingdom was held after being defeated by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. There the Moriscos remained for many more years, until they were finally expelled after the end of the Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1568-1.571) in which the Moorish population rose before the Pragmatic Sanction of 1567. In that edict, promulgated by Philip II, limited the religious and cultural freedoms of the Moors, to force them to abandon their customs and way of life to actually become Catholicism, or at least to appear. Today we see the reflection of the Muslim passage through the area in architecture, local cuisine, carpet weaving, agricultural landscape and, among other aspects, the presence of names of Arab origin.

What to see in La Alpujarra

Lanjarón (spa, castle), ravine of the poqueira (Panpaneira, Bubuón, Capileira), sour fountain, Trevélez (dryers of Ham), Busquistar, Valor, Pórtugos, Pitres. Natural environment and treking throughout the area.