According to the authors Amador Díaz García and Manuel Barrios Aguilera, the name Atarfe comes from the Arabic word al-taraf, meaning 'point', which in the Granada dialect would be a- tarf. This is probably in reference to the nearby Castillejo and Tajo Colorao peaks. However, other sources suggest that it originates from the Arabic word artarf, meaning 'boundary', as the boundary of the old city of Elvira was located nearby
Beas de Granada’s origin dates back to the time of the Roman Empire. The oldest documentary references place it on the Roman road to Acci (modern-day Guadix). The name is believed to come from the Latin word Viax, meaning road.
There is a bus services from Jimena to Jaén with Muñoz Amezcua.
There are bus services to to Jaén, Madrid, Granada, Málaga, Noalejo, Carchelejo and Punta Arenas using the company, Alsa.
There are bus services from Bedmar y Garcíez to Jaén and Úbeda using the company Transportes Muñoz Amezcua.
There are various bus services from Navas de San Juan to Aldeahermosa, Arquillos, Bailén, Castellar, Chiclana de Segura, Jaén, Linares, Mengíbar, Montizón, Santisteban del Puerto, Sorihuela del Guadalimar, Úbeda, Vadollano and Venta de los Santos using both regional companies, Samar and Empresa Castillo.
There are various bus services from Sorihuela de Guadalimar to Jaén, Úbeda, Granada, Emp. Beas de Segura, Linares, Bailén, Villacarrillo and Villanueva del Arzobispo using the company, Alsa.
Orgiva traditional festivals include Cabalgata Reyes Magos, Fiestas de San Sebastián, Carnival, Día del Santísimo Cristo de la Expiración, Semana Santa, Tourism fair, Órgiva summer fair, San Miguel day, Fiesta de la Vigen del Rosario.
There is a bus services from Granada to Trevelez several times a day by the ALSA bus company calling at Orgiva. journey time to Granada is 1 hr 15 mins and journey tme to Trevelez is 1 hr and 20 mins .
Órgiva has been identified as the Greek colony of Exoche, mentioned by the geographer Ptolemy. The first written references to the town appear in the writings of al-Udri (11th century) and al-Idrisi (12th century), with the names yuz Aryuba and hisn Órgiva, respectively, as an administrative district and castle of the Cora de Elvira.
Lord Byron, Benjamin Disraeli, the Duke of Wellington, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Graves... they, and countless others, had one thing in common: they all visited Spain and had plenty to say about the country.
The Alhambra palace complex is imposingly situated above the town of Granada, on the lower slopes of the Sierra Nevada, southern Spain. It is the most important surviving medieval Islamic palace in the world.
If you really want to understand Semana Santa in Andalucia, then you need to learn about the groups of people who are at the heart of it all - the cofrades or members of cofradías, the religious associations that care for the images of Christ and Mary that are used in the processions and that meet throughout the year for various activities and to plan the next Holy Week celebrations and events in their local area.
Although Puerto Banús marina maintains the illusion of being a developed old Spanish fishing village, the complex was in fact designed and built in 1970. The tourist complex comprising the marina and shopping district, together with the large residential area Nueva Andalucía, were all the vision of property developer José Banús (indeed, its full name is Puerto José Banús)
The city of Guadix has been inhabited since the mid-second millennium BC, and continues to be so to this day. Caesar founded the Ivlia Gemella Acci colony in 45 BC, shortly after the Battle of Munda, to house veterans of the Regio Prima Uernacula and the Regio Secunda. This settlement had a Hippodamian plan with fundamental axes known as the cardus and the decumanus. These axes can still be seen in the city today and have shaped the medieval and modern city.
Carratraca has been inhabited since prehistoric times, as evidenced by archaeological finds in the Sierra de Alcaparaín, where Neolithic burials and cave paintings have been discovered. This long-standing presence continued into the Roman Period, as suggested by Roman coins and a late Roman necropolis found near the sulphurous springs.
Originally known as Mingo Priego, its current name comes from Alonso Carrillo, who was appointed Archbishop of Toledo in 1445 and granted the municipality the category of town in a founding certificate dated September 1, 1449, later confirmed by King Juan II of Castile on January 1 in 1450 and by the Reyes Católicos on January 25, 1498, thus separating the village from the old town of Iznatoraf.
The origins of the village of Torres date back to the Upper Palaeolithic. The first dwellings discovered were in the nearby Cerro del Morrón, where the inhabitants found shelters suitable for living.
The first vestiges of settlements in the town date back to the Bronze Age and are found in the place known as Piedras de la Ermita. Later in the Iron Age, human presence was located in the Atalayon area. Continuing with this chronology, remains of Celtiberian culture appeared in the nearby area of Bayonas. There the sculptural group known as “The Lion of Bienservida” was found and taken to a museum in Albacete, a sample of Greek funerary influence and dated to the end of the fourth century BC.
The oldest settlement known in the Orcereño municipality corresponds to the Bronze Age from when the existence of a series of foothill settlements in the valleys of the Orcera and Trujala rivers have been confirmed: Piedra del Águila, Cerro of la Coja, Peñón del Utrero and Cerro de la Atalaya. Abundant ceramic material has been found in these settlements. In the last two there are also remains of a fortification, sharing similarities with those from both Roman times and even the late medieval period.
