Sayalonga He hugs itself through its streets, which extend over the city center and close on one another, picking up on his lap a white town and immaculate. A municipality of essential aromas and deep, quiet sounds, which conforms to the topography of a ravine slopes and adapting their homes cubic to the wants of the land. Sayalonga, name Sanguine and delicate, tropical fruit, a Latin conjunctions that speak of old long skirts. It's a mystery the origin of its name, the root that sustains it, its genesis. More spoken in the chronicles Muslim and Christian its Annex, it Corumbela that of the former Batarxis even. But there it is, after a sharp curve appeared as a ghost immaculate, like a wisp of mist in the autumn, with its plumes of white clouds from the chimneys waving in the sky like banners.
Sayalonga.
An approach
Sayalonga is configured as access to the interior of the Axarquia from Torrox, Nerja, Frigiliana Algarrobo, the easternmost coastal municipalities of the province of Malaga. Open a new world full of ravines, gorges cattle on the slopes of the mountains by now circulating roads and their cars and in the past were the drovers trails, carts and horses. The white villages of the Axarquia that sit 
on rough terrain, forming some of the most prominent images of the province. Small towns like Salares , Sedella , Canillas de Albaida Árchez or rooted in this land since time immemorial. Some larger and head Cómpeta form a region in which cross each other, for the joy of travel, routes of Mudejar and sun and wine. A visiting area thoroughly and calmly, without haste, to admire its unusual places, their urban layouts impossible, its minaret-shaped jewelry, ancient mosques, squares secret courtyards preceded by ramparts. Sayalonga belongs to the path of the sun and wine, but it could also belong to the Mudejar, thanks to the minaret which is preserved in the annexe of Corumbela. Travel Home
Sayalonga We arrived from Algarrobo and obviously the first indication of parking, to reach higher up in its path and park at the top of town in a parking lot in battery enabled a slope. In our journey we have already seen the municipal structure, adapted to the ground and clutching him. E-armed we began our descent toward the center. Sayalonga has a municipal website greatly facilitates the visit to the traveler. At the same specified and monuments to visit schedules, detailed the various stories that populate the streets and a street can be downloaded in pdf format completely updated, useful and readable. Even with all the information in the form of panels and tiles displayed on its walls and facades almost going to make us overlook the document that we had already printed. The church, the chapel and
Alcuza
We followed up the large square of Rafael Alcoba. Two Children play with a ball, a 
older group talk to the fondness the warm autumn sun. Beside the square is the town hall and from there we move into the maze of streets on a visit to our surprise, we made a very simple way. Plates in the streets you can see the name of it and on it, a medlar. This fruit is one of the important assets of Sayalonga, so much so that the first Sunday of May is celebrated as the Day of 
medlar "festival declared of National Tourist Interest in Andalusia. A day where you can sample these products and their different dining alternatives. Just twenty meters from the door of the hall we find the home d ela Santa Catalina church, at his side, the church of San Cayetano and against them the very narrow alley from the flask. Both the chapel and the church are overwhelming simplicity. White exterior, pure forms, barred the chapel door, wooden door church. On the roof of the latter, built in the sixteenth century mosque stands on an ancient octagonal bell tower. In the same period dates the shrine, built in the days of cohabitation between Christians and Muslims. Inside is the image and San Cayetano, an eighteenth-century sculpture of great artistic value. Against them, the Alcuza alley, from Arabic word which means funnel. "Alcuza Alley. With a width of 56 inches on one end, this is the narrowest alley in the region of Axarquia "reads a plaque at its entrance. And close it is. A normal sized person rubs shoulders that make up the sides. Alley competition entering the straits "Araceli Alley" in nearby Canillas de Albaida . So here come back later to, through the Callejon de San Cayetano, reaching the Round of Sayalonga Cemetery. Before a visit to their viewpoints. The viewpoint Morales
continued way forward on the path that we make information plates to the Moorish Museum. We came to a fork. On the left the museum, right to the viewpoint of Morales. We chose the second option. Overwhelming is the word that has to be placed upon the landscape seen from the viewpoint of Morales. On the right we see the ups and downs of the hills, ridges and ravines Axarquía. They seem to float on the annexed Corumbela outperforming its minaret tower. Beyond the Natural Park of the Sierras Tejeda and Almijara sits above them, the highest peak in the province of Malaga, the Maroma, with its top covered with a blanket of snow pulquérrima. Together to Corumbela, background, farms and cottages of Competa and Canillas de Albaida, 
but not come to distinguish the major population centers. Down in the valley, beside the river is intuit Árchez . We sat on the benches and let the cool of the morning we were flooded. Terraces of fruit trees with fruit oranges, lemons. You hear some distant barking. Columns of smoke from the chimneys rising toward the sky, unraveling. The lookout has an explanatory panel which tells you: "This street is called Morales because in this area was where a large plantation of morals (...) These moral engaged to the breeding of silkworms, the silk exported from a pier in Torre del Mar had numerous European countries like Holland, England and Italy. Such was the quantity and quality of production that this was one of the most prosperous areas of the Kingdom of Granada ". The Moorish Museum
returned the path to the fork and take the direction d ela right up to the Moorish Museum of Sayalonga. "The choice of location is derived from historical reasons. The building, owned by the City, has had several roles throughout history has served as school City Hall has been oleander craft shop ... Currently serves as a museum after the building renovation has restored the structure as possible while maintaining its original configuration and allowing you to create a place that combines new developments in a rustic style, offering an image of great beauty. Thus, the building itself offers a visually rich, showing horseshoe arches, beautifully carved doors by hand, emulating rich Moorish walls and colors that impresses the visitor. Your 
variety, multifunctionality and its contents form a building shows the rich culture of Sayalonga offering visitors information on any matter relating to heritage, culture and history. The building also has all the technological advances from media, music ... to facilitate any act that occurs at the point with this is intended as a cultural center with broad responsibilities and a lot to offer the public. " Cemetery Redondo
From there we returned to the square of the Constitution, which houses the church and the chapel and after that we get in the way of Sayalonga Redondo Cemetery. It's funny, curious and, indeed, round. The outer walls of the cemetery is a circle imperfect (actually octagonal), before them, dome-shaped niche remind us, somewhat, to the cemetery Casabermeja. These are simpler, perhaps more crude is its 
over, but equally impressive and curious. The arched niches overlap on each other and give the cemetery an air of honeycomb hive. Three or four rows overlapping erratically. Conventional wisdom attributes this form of burial sayalonguinos the desire of not being buried with their backs to each other. Currently, the central part of the cemetery is occupied by more conventional cutting niches. The graveyard is Sayalonga one of the most visited places in the entire region of Axarquia, reaching 3.00o receive more than a year. Next to the entrance door to the left is the Interpretation Center of the cemetery. We walk its streets and the silence overwhelmed, structure, enclosure. Its white color contrasts with the blue sky. Before leaving Corumbela Sayalonga way, we will stop at the viewpoint of the cemetery, you can have a perfect view of its roundness. Corumbela
"The White Dove", thus described the Romans and hence its name. Corumbela is a hamlet, a schedule of population with no more than 300 people located about seven kilometers from the core. It is situated on a hill and vine to get there from Sayalonga must continue the journey by road from Competa, deviate Árchez access to and from there follow the signs to Corumbela. It is a narrow road full of curves, but the arrival worthwhile. For the views and its magnificent 
minaret. We lair in The Color Blue Sky by these towers, usually attached to the churches and in the past were the towers of the mosques in which the muezzin called for prayer, as we have seen in Salares or your own Árchez well preserved. Of Corumbela is attached to the church of San Pedro and responds to the fee structure of brick. In this case is not very story, but this simplicity is what gives it beauty. The temple is a simple construction, white facade topped their canopies 
color intensity. From Corumbela privileged hill, you can see the Mare Nostrum, the village of Sayalonga, Canillas de Albaida and Competa. Collection is a hamlet and isolated, quiet, full of peace and a good pair of restaurants to eat. Farewell imagine how she weaves the silk worm in
Morales Street viewpoint. Weaves fine material that will become sensitive to release the court of the kings Nazari. Travel to Naples and Venice, the kingdom of Granada, Rome and Flanders. Travel to the Far East, Provence. Travel. We sat in one of the black wrought iron benches, contemplating the landscape. Come to us the scents of orange embers of the pots and pans fall. Corumbela look beyond, as white dove is about to take flight. All is stillness and silence. Imagine, imagine as the silkworm spins the finest raw materials are transformed into delicate garment. Festivals, food and related links
Day Loquat : "Held the first Sunday in May in full loquat harvest season when the fruit is ripe and at its best. On this important day of celebration, also discloses the typical products and derivatives such as jam sweet loquat loquat loquat or liquor, and typical local products such as wine of the land. Is also presenting awards at Medlar Andalusian, county, and local levels. Throughout the entire day is free wine tasting, medlar and jam, and sell products and expose the many courses taught the people throughout the year, "as noted the municipal website. In each edition delivers the Golden Loquat all the relevant people and institutions that have interests in enacting Sayalonga. Soups
cachorreñas: "Without a doubt one of the most unique dishes featuring the local cuisine. Allegedly, this dish has its origins in Sayalonga then popularized in the cuisine of the Axarquia. Ingredients: 2 or 3 cloves of garlic, 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 green pepper, sliced \u200b\u200bbread, water, vinegar (to taste), salt., 1 egg per person. Preparation: Put water to boil, when boiling is poured green pepper, the garlic, crushed, his "little something" of salt and tablespoon of oil. When it is cooked, you are egg per person check and curdles and separates the plates with chopped bread and vinegar ", it indicates the Sayalonga website ..
Links: We take as reference the website Tourist Board of the Costa del Sol and very complete web page Sayalonga municipal .
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