Important medieval fortress that defended the road between Almería and Granada, built before the tenth century. It continued its heyday during the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, until it was occupied by the Christians in 1489. Today, only three towers and some walls remain.
A mosque from the Nasrid period (twelfth to thirteenth centuries) consecrated to Christian worship in 1489, first as Ermita de Santiago and later as Ermita de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno. It is the only Almohad enclosure in Spain that, despite the time and aggressions endured, preserves the oratory with its quibla and part of the ornamentation that now decorates the doorway of the mirhab.
Its history begins with the Royal Decree granted by the Catholic Monarchs on March 21, 1492, by which Don Álvaro de Bazán was ordered to make the previous mosque the “church of the town”. There is evidence that between 1497 and 1499 the previous mosque was demolished and the construction of the new Christian temple began.
The museum was created in 2002, based in a house belonging to the agrarian bourgeoisie of the late nineteenth century. Its central element is the patio, around which the rooms are distributed. These feature exhibits about domestic customs and information about the economic life of the town’s history.
A water tank of considerable proportions consisting of a longitudinal nave made up of slabs and covered with a barrel vault of the same material, the vault being interrupted by the housing of a series of skylights that have a truncated pyramid appearance.
The Tourist Office is located in the Town Hall of Fiñana, opening from Monday to Friday.
Festivals in Fiñana: Cabalgata de Reyes Magos, Fiesta de San Antón Abad, Fiesta de San Sebastián, Día de Andalucía, Jueves Lardero, Semana Santa, Día de la Cruz, Romería de San Isidro, Fiestas del Sol en la Sierra and Feria.
Fiñana is situated at the foot of the Sierra Nevada and its Arab roots are still visible today, such as the former thirteenth-century mosque, which is now the Ermita de Nuestro Padre Jesús and has been declared a Historic Monument. The town has about 1,994 inhabitants.