The Festival de la Cereza usually thakes place on the third Saturday in June. It is a well-organised event with several stalls set up in the town’s “polideportivo” sports centre where you can buy large flats of top quality local cherries at rock bottom prices. But that’s not all!

Alfarnate is one of the seven municipalities of La Axarquia that makes up the Ruta del Aceite y los Montes. The town is situated more than 900m above sea level and is also surrounded by the Sierras of Enmedio, Palomera and Jobo. Alfarnate is unusual among the towns in the comarca of Axarquia, in that it doesn't have many steep streets, although its houses are typically Andalucian - low and whitewashed.

The Venta de Alfarnate is the oldest venta or roadside inn in Andalucia, and is located at km 514 of the old Malaga to Granada camino real (royal highway) road in the mountainous Axarquia region of Malaga province.