Located towards the northern region of Antequera, between Málaga, Sevilla and Granada Alameda is a little village with five thousand inhabitants, it was an strategic place in Roman times, with the three most important roads coming together at its boundary.

Now is a necessary stopping place for stagecoaches, and travellers, who would use it as a rest from their exhausting travels and, on many occasions, would be victims of ambushes by famous bandits such as “El Tempranillo”.

Alameda has an important necropolis dating from the Early Palaeolithic era (2.500 BC) and with Neolithic ceramic remains, proof that this place was a base for early human settlement since prehistoric times.

Here you can see too the Roman baths, “La Fuente de la Placeta”, built during the reign of Carlos III, and the church of “La Virgen de la Inmaculada Concepción”, with a marked baroque style.

The festivities here start with “La Noche de la Candelaria” (2nd February), and continue in May with the Romería of San Isidro. And the culmination in summer putting matters to a close with the fair in August.

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