Albuñán

Albuñán is located north of the Parque Natural de Sierra Nevada, a little and friendly village surrounded by beautiful places where the last Sunday of May it is celebrated the Fiesta de las Flores, in which the marriageable girls pick up flowers and entertain to the future wife singing and dancing in her honour. In June it is organised the Ethnographic Exhibition in which it is recreated a market from the first third of the XX century and we can find farmers and livestock farmers dressed up with clothes from that period and market stalls with farm produce and singing and dancing with the traditional fandangos of this area.

Albuñán was an old Arab farm that after the Christian conquest was dependent of the bishopric in Guadix. According to the land registry of the Marquis Ensenada this village had a castle (nowadays it did not exist).

Monuments

Parish Church (XVI century).

Archaeological Sites

You have to see the archaeological wealth from this area.

Town Planning

Irrigation Method (irrigation ditches) through the streets of the village.

Gastronomy

Sausages (filling, salami-type sausage, hard pork sausage, blood sausage). Tarts of pringue. Grilled lamb. Encebollado. Oatmeal porridges. Stew of Tarbinas (a kind of sweet).

Aubergine cake.

How to get there

You have to leave Granada and take the Motorway A-92 towards: Guadix - Almería - Murcia. You have to pass near Lopera and take the Exit 288 - Purullena - Cortes and Graena - Beas de Guadix - Ciudad Troglodita - Cerámica Artística - Paisaje Pintoresco. Continue towards Purullena, cross Guadix and follow the signs until you get to Albuñán.

Distances

To Granada 64 km
To Esfiliana 10 km
To Alcudia de Guadix 12 km
To Cogollos de Guadix 3 km
To Minas del Marquesado 16 km
To Alquife 14 km
To Guadix 10 km
To Beas de Guadix 24 km