Festivals in Bacares: Cabalgata de Reyes Magos, Fiesta del Romero, Semana Santa, Corpus Christi, Romería de la Virgen de Lourdes, Fiestas en Honor de la Virgen de Lourdes and Fiestas en Honor del Cristo del Bosque.

Bacares has a strong mining history, and is one of the most rustic towns in the whole of the Almeria province. For keen horse riders, Bacares and its surrounding areas have some wonderful routes to explore on horseback. It has around 230 inhabitants. It is suggested that Bacares may have Phoenician or Tartesso origins, due to the richness of its mines.