Streets slow and long, sluggish ride. The winter light shines on the white walls and cream houses. All is languid and delicate. Some almond trees are exploding purple flowers and pristine fields. IAEA Archidona his past from the top of Peak Spell. Archidona sounded like Ember, as Arx Domina, as Medina Arxiduna in ancient languages. Archidona which was a refuge and home of the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Romans. Archidona which included the coronation of the Emir Abd al-Rhaman as the first of the independent kings of Damascus. Archidona was first and Moorish Umayyad later. Archidona, walk slow, walk slowly and delicately. Archidona, medina Arxiduna, Arx Domina, Ember. Archidona. 
streets seem Archidona extended in space and time. Long streets, as authentic arteries that pump from a heart-shaped plaza Ochavada. We are driven by the quiet ride, the prolonged sluggish environment. We walked through the streets and observe the auction of its noble buildings, its stately homes and manor the vestibules sausages shadows, the tops of their chimneys and roofs. The black wrought iron windows and balconies overlooking the streets, hinting after your blinds or wooden rods wrapped and painted green. Dot our history walks and monuments, the covers of chapels and churches, museums and municipalities, faces of old and rich history. It tastes the Archidona past with every step. The city leads us and we got carried away. We smell their perfumes, we bathe in the sun elusive, we look at the monuments, we walk and walk and walk ... Home: The square Ochavada
Park and walk. These are the first two and best recommendations. Find the square Ochavada and be done with a guide map at the tourist office are the following two. We attacked the stately facades of many, they look serious and tough, beautiful. We headed for the plaza Ochavada and after passing an arc appears to have entered another world and time. The year was 1780 when construction began on the square. It was King Carlos III (one of the ideologues of urbanism of modern Madrid) that prompted its creation. The crisis of the XXI century was no stranger in the eighteenth century and one of the objectives set 
standing in the square was, in fact, alleviate a deep unemployment situation prevailing in the region. Its architects were local builders Frías and Francisco Astorga, Antonio González Sevillano and responds to the aesthetic taste of Andalusian Baroque, so much so that the square has become one of the best examples of this kind in the world. It has eight sides, hence the name, Ochavada, all different in their years of existence has served various functions. The square has hosted the 
neighborhood, has been an inn, town hall has hosted the Junior College d "Fray Martin de Leon." In addition, the Ochavada has been the engine of commerce and merchandise, neighborhood meeting place, necessary cultural scene ... It is accessed through three arches leading to as many streets. You breathe this air of majesty. Some potted geraniums decorate curds balconies. Takes time to contemplate his eight facades, the eight sides who look to the center, the eight faces. 
a group of women talking in the middle of the square, outside in his talk at the jewel that hosts them. Smile. Next to one of its arches entrance is located the tourist office. Missed, because it provided much useful information (such as schedules, etc), information about the historical, cultural and religious and a street plan where to locate the main references to visit. The phone's Municipal Tourism Bureau is 952,716,479. With the street in hand, we set a schedule recommended by the technique that we serve. Two main streets that rise and fall from the square Ochavada until Paseo de la Victoria. We moved. We left the plaza through the second of its arches, which overlooks the street Salazar. to the Plaza de Santa Ana
walked. We walked and we check in Archidona especially attentive to detail, exquisitely clean. The houses, all of them retain the ancient air through their windows and balconies uniform black wrought iron, look on your walls also only two colors, pure white or cream beige. This detail creates a sense of elegant uniformity resemble far from every corner, allow us to delight with their differences, to appreciate the elements that are out of tune, we fix a fireplace in a hall decorated especially well in a pot of color rabid another. We walked. We walked down the long street Salazar until the former convent of Santo Domingo. Well not because we house the first of the convents erected in Archidona (Year 1531), but because it has lost its 
ecclesiastical function quite another to win. The former convent of Santo Domingo is now the Hotel School Convent of Santo Domingo. The building is outside the ancient temple structure and modernization inside to accommodate a school that taught five different courses catering. Customers can enjoy their restaurant, their housing, their tasting menu ... For more information, prices and times visit their website 
www.hotelescuelaturismoandaluz.com or call 952.71.70.70. On one wall at an angle that faces the convent we see a plaque that reads: "In this house died Luis Barahona de Soto, one of the most famous poets of the world, not only in Spain. Scripta legitimate "We dive. The writer was also a poet and doctor, and even in some battles he fought against the Moors in the Alpujarras Granada. The poet lived between 1548 and 1595 and
left some verses written as "The tears exit the eye / more beautiful, that love was his poor suffering, / and those who follow their whims / wandered in different deserts, / between weapons, triumphs and waste / glorious sing of those people / that after his error, a thousand paths to open, / the end of Europe, a time, with Asia were. " continue along the Calle Santo Domingo, we got to the Square of the chickens and take, right, the road race.
Just twenty meters from the square cross through a narrow Street (Calle Dr. José Aguilar) to Plaza de Santa Ana opens before us a set d secluded houses that seem to live in parallel with the main streets of the town. Chairs the group, from one of the sides of the plaza, the imposing church of Santa Ana, which his majesty itself must be added the fact that it is built on high ground that needs to be accessed via a staircase 
gray stone. The temple stands a curious triangular shaped bell tower. Tells the story of this church that most likely was built over an ancient mosque in the Arab period would be in the outskirts of the city of Medina Arxiduna. Flamboyant Gothic is his style that is projected construction in the sixteenth century. In the nineteenth century added two ships to the only primitive. Packaging is a building whose interior is alive and full of sculptures, paintings and statuary. Not surprisingly, the parish is the seat of the Guilds canonical Passion of Solitude and of humility. Foremost among the aforementioned architecture triangular tower, with no architectural or rational explanation justifying its curious design. The church overlooks the plaza full of houses, old houses
still preserved in perfect magazine. Children play with a ball, two women chat, a man down the stone steps and heard a whistle ... ... A popular and easily recognizable tune. Fliuuuuuuu-fi-fi-fliuuuuuuuu ... It is the timeless rhythmic tapping of a sharpener. We see him, pushing his bicycle saddle which rests on a wooden body which holds in turn a small motor with the sharpening scissors and knives. No more and this is particularly surprising. It takes place a white hat on his head. Follow their tune, their rhythmic tapping, which is the same in each and every one of the places ... Fliuuuuuuu-fi-fi-fliuuuuuuuu ... With this score we left the plaza to the street again Race through Don Felipe Street.
to the Church of Victoria and the Municipal Museum
Archidona civil architecture continues to surprise us at every step. This town neat and ancient history has preserved its essence, placed in homes that look more stately manor in palaces and elaborate lintels entries in black bars watermarks impossible. We walked, slowly and at ease, slowly, savoring. In the walk we find the hermitage of the Nazarene. Ermita than any other town would receive the title of parish church, given its size and majesty. Bell tower in brick, white walls topped with the same material and a portal with two
contain large columns at the top county shield. Annex to the chapel are the old school that was Escolapios (current high school institute) that remains attached by the umbilical cord of a bow-bridge. We dazzled the spirit that emanates from the people. For recall two outstanding historical notes as those payments come these harvests until today. Archidona, while still Arxiduna Medina, lived several decades of splendor. The emperor was crowned the first Rahman I Emir in 756. The city was, until the tenth century capital of the call Cora
Rayya, an area occupied more or less, extension of the current Málaga. Already in the eighteenth century the arrival of the Padres scored a second Escolapios splendor, and that gave the city an important cultural renaissance, covering the entire province until the twentieth century. Exactly on the Piarist schools to which we mentioned before, he studied for some years the father of Andalusian country, Blas Infante. The natural pass between Granada and Seville where lies this core population has always 
placed in a privileged position, where traders have become permanently throughout their history and where they still keep coming. Archidona XXI century is at the point And while a southwest crosses the highway linking Malaga to Granada and to the northeast linking Malaga to Cordoba, Sevilla and Antequera. Archidona sees everything from the highest of Sorcery Peak. We continued our walk up to the church of Victoria. Prominent monument erected in 1555 as a convent of Friars Minimum and of which only the original facade. Stand in front 
paints are placed on your door and the steeple, three eyes of two bells hanging. N inside the figure of the Nazarene in place of the Virgen de la Victoria that once occupied the high altar. The parish is also home to several fraternities canonical and the Association of Guilds of Holy Week. Beside the church is the building Cilla the Town Hall and Municipal Museum. It has a curious story, because despite his government and toll the building was used in its first origin and crop storage silo. Following an initial reform became City Hall and then host the Municipal Museum. Accessing. The museum opened in the summer from Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 14:00 and 17:30 to 19:30, Sunday and holidays from 12:00 to 14:00. In winter
hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:30 to 13:30 and 16:30 to 18:30, Sundays and public holidays from 11:30 to 13.30. Admission is free and worthwhile. Natural addition to the review of the prehistory and history archidonense, the museum houses a tour of memory rich folklore, which reflects traditions such as "race cans" (children of Archidona run through the streets with bundles cans for the Magi do not forget to go to bring toys) or the strings of San Blas, which portege throat throughout the year whether to 
blessed ta tape around his neck and decorated with 
small bagels. We walk in the footsteps of the Board of Collective Memory, which also can be seen other community traditions, the town hall, where they meet local files and older items, including a safe timber and iron has been used in the council until relatively recently (with three keys, one held by the mayor, the other in possession of the secretary and the other holding the controller), or stately robes with which Aviano in large parties. Villa room also has chairs and benches and a table belonging to that manor banquet facilities outside of Archidona and, currently, is used for weddings and other prominent civil acts. We strolled through the museum and walk around the memory of Archidona without feeling intrusive, more participants feeling its history of their traditions. The museum technician serving us and meticulously recreates every detail. Old and we breathe. The convent of the Minimum and delicious sweets
visit to the convent of the Minimum is a before and after. The above is our presence in Archidona and delight with the deal and the architectural and then has to do with something much more prosaic, with the delight with which we tasted the sweets bought in the temple. If Archidona nuns have a reputation in the production of sweets, we acknowledge and emphasize that it is a hard-won reputation. But it is a little later and in a privileged place which will realize the almond macaroons and cheese and ...
The Minimum Nuns convent was built in 1551 on the space it occupied an old palace building, owned by the Count of Urena and an ancient shrine. The facade of the convent and church are impressive almost cover an entire street, so we can guess, perhaps intuit the true dimensions of the building in which they reside these nuns. The interior of the church has a nave with barrel vault ceiling and surprise us, trabajadísimos and its high altar in white and gold. Leaving 
. We seek the gateway to around where they sell candy. If we place in front to the main entrance on the right, twenty yards is a small door, there is access. Attention to the schedule, because once the door is closed there is no way to give notice. The sale of handmade cakes is from 10:00 to 12:00 and 17:00 to 19:00. We went in front of us a door to the izqueirda a lathe. We enter a question. Beside the door is a normal buzzer. Together with a string around suppose there rings a bell. We opted for the electric bell. We called three times. No answer. Now throw the chain, pulled hear a series of gears that run and at the end of them, when you reach the top ... it sounds far a campaign 
We look forward to ... ... "Hi, - we heard a young voice on the other side. - Good morning, we wanted some candy, - say. - Do what you want? - Ask us. - What we recommend?, - Ask. - What I'll say nice, here are all very good. We ask for a box of macaroons filled with sweet potatoes, a box of almond cheeses and some oiled. Besides these three delicacies the offer is completed borrachuelos, cortadillos and donuts in San Francisco. Hope. A couple of minutes later the wheel turns and there appear, perfectly packaged, our asking. - How is it, - we asked. -20, 40 euros, - they tell us the other side. We pay and we said goodbye while listening. - Go with God. How do we know that if only two people I have spoken? We look at the small hall. Above the door a modern webcam watching us. Smile. Tradition and modernity in view of the hand. The Chapel of Our Lady of Grace and dismissal
We go, go up to the Peak of Sorcery, the chapel of Grace, which was formerly the chapel, the castle, the grove of almond trees in bloom, the green, the natural balcony on Archidona. We took the car and crossed Archidona the Paseo de la Victoria and the Virgen de Gracia avenue to take right to a road called the Sanctuary. Indicated, there is no major problem. The car can park at the bottom and walk to the summit is a good road but a 
both long and fairly steep, can also be accessed by car to the shrine itself. As we ascend through a forest of pine trees and the urban park Virgen de Gracia. A veil of haze obscures the horizon after a silk, yet we, the view is being drawn dramatically. Parked. A flock of sheep come to meet us. Balan and walk jingling bells. We walked among the ruins of the ancient entrance to the castle of which there are only two paintings 
blunt wall and the remains of a pair of towers. However, the shrine looks immaculate white against the sky blue. Behind her was an abyss of olive trees. We watched a flock of sheep grazes in the grass of grass and listened like a lamb just two days (still has captivated the umbilical cord) to find bullet his mother. Is lost. We looked around, no trace of the pastor. We try to catch him, but skips and jumps and not get caught. Finally, after almost fifteen minutes of failed attempts we drive to where your mother. smile 
satisfied. Lost Lamb had prevented us look up and watch the spectacle. It leaves us speechless. White almond skyline. Under our feet, the village of Archidona and his heart pounding as Ochavada square. In the distance the mountains of Malaga, Granada, the Rock of the Lovers of Antequera. And have dominion over the landscape, the shrine. One of the few, the only Malaga across which still inside the form of arcades of old mosques. The set is awesome, awesome. We visited the inside, cozy and tight, we, 
accede to the remains of the castle, 
enjoy the scenery, the clear skies of February, winter tamed and today, against the custom of this blog, goodbye from here. We sat on a stone. The landscape before our eyes, permanent and changing to a
time. Small backpack that we always carry with us today, in addition to notebooks, camera, information and cases of pencils and pens, we have a treasure. - Open them. Before us ... macaroons filled with sweet potatoes, cheeses and almond oil ... We can not resist the temptation and tried them all. air caresses your skin, you green and blue and white rest in our eyes, we hear, something distant bleating of sheep, a pair of barking a little below, the branches of the almond trees swaying in the breeze smooth. How good are the macaroons.
Other information and links
Lagunas de Archidona : just five kilometers from the city center is one of the natural areas of Malaga, a wetland composed of two layers of water is known as the Lagunas de Archidona. Passageway and breeding of birds, precious treasure for nature lovers.
Fair Dog: In 1993, I organized Archidona Dog Fair, was later declared a Festival of interest
nationally by the Ministry of Culture of the Junta de Andalucía. Its origin is the recovery of a typical exhibition of cattle that had been celebrated in the town since the early twentieth century and was lost by mechanization and progress of the field. Archidona City Council was focused on the world of dogs to recover traditional cattle fair. It is organized by the Iltre. City Council Archidona, the Federación Andaluza de Caza, the Costa del Sol Canine Society and Cultural Association Friends of the Dog Show. The fair is a unique event, both nationally and one of the most important examples of the Iberian Peninsula connected to the world of dog and hunting scene important to the English breeds, especially the Andalusian Hound. Note that this race has a before and after from the first edition of the Feria del Perro de Archidona, for in it, through various forums were set fees for the Andalusian Hound breed. (Information and photograph taken from the website www.feriadelperro.com) Easter: 500 years of tradition endorse the celebrations of Holy Week in Archidona. From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday brotherhoods with their thrones walk the streets of the town before emptying into the square Ochavada. Stresses in religious celebrations of this time the "Embassy of Angel, when a child falls from the sky dressed as an angel from the balcony of the church in Victoria to announce the Passion of Christ.
Links: We take as reference the website of the Tourist Board of the Costa del Sol and Archidona municipal website in addition to those mentioned in this report.
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