Capileira

Last and highest of the three villages in the Poqueira gorge, Capileira has a municipality that climbs all the way to the summits of Veleta and Mulhacén. Walkers use it as a base for the Sierra Nevada, and each 5 August the Virgen de las Nieves is carried on foot up to Mulhacén. On 1 November the square fills for the mauraca, a night of roast chestnuts and anís.

Highlights

• Church of Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza, with a gilded 17th-century Baroque altarpiece
• House-museum of the writer Pedro Antonio de Alarcón and of Alpujarra life
• The mauraca chestnut festival on the night of 1 November
• Trails up to Mulhacén, the highest peak of the Iberian Peninsula
• Old public wash-houses below the Hondera and La Pileta springs

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