|  |  YUNQUERA forms part of the Natural Park of the SIERRA DE LAS NIEVES and has the most beautiful landscape with the hillsides covered in the rare Spanish fir trees PINSAPO. |
 Access to the Nature Reserve is from across the valley and it is possible to drive to the part known as HOYO DE LAS COLMENAS, but then it is necessary to continue on foot.
The paths split into two, to the left is a footpath which leads to the Taojo de la Caina, an impressive cleft over the Horacjos valley, to the right there is another footpath which leads to the Puerto del Saucillo and from there to the FUNTE DE LA PERDIZ, a spring which flows all year round. Further ahead you pass by the Llano de la Casa, and finally you arrive at the Torrecilla peak, at 1.819 mts the highest point in Malaga Province. |
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 Outside the Natural Park, the hills and valley of the Convent have a special attraction where the firs descend the hillsides until the vicinity of the ruins of the convent of NUESTRA SENORA DE LAS NIEVES. The Romans named the village JUNCARIA, which means marsh or reed meadow, and later the ARABS made the most of these lands with plots watered by nearby springs. The agricultural tradition has been kept up to our days and extends over the hills and undulations of the high plateau with the most important extentions of olive groves. |
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 In the central area is the town of YUNQUERA, a typical ANDALUSIAN white village with its windy, steep streets, and a visit to the Parroquial Church, which dates back to the XVI century, the tower of the Puerto de las Abejas and the Hermitage of OUR LADY OF CARMEN should not be missed.
The watch tower and the ancestral homes of Abela and the Viuda de Sola, dating from 1800, are also worth visiting. Half a km from the village you will find the ARABIC chapel, the best conserved testimony to YUNQUERA'S past. |
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 The festivals held on August the 16th in honor of the VIRGEN DE LA PORTICATE and on October 7th to the VIRGIN DEL ROSARIO conserve traditions from the times when harvesters returned in Mid-August from the JEREZ countryside.
As the last group arrived they all joined together to go to the chapel of Porticate and celebrate mass for thanksgiving. The local people still place "SAN JUANES" and "SAN JAIMES", where they hang a print of either one of the Saints in the street with a colourful blanket as the background.
Each of these improvised alters are adorned with mirrors, ribbons, dolls and pot plants, and the youngsters often sing and dance there during the summer nights. |
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