With little more than 400 inhabitants this town settled in La Axarquía beeibg in Macharaviaya is like embarking in time travel and returning to the Eighteenth century.

It has streets like a labyrinthine of an Arabic settlement, and its cobbled paving have so powerfully attracted the attention of visitors.

Its washed by the streams of Macharaviaya and of Fuente Horno, where there is an abundance of very steep cliffs and, in places of easier access, vine plantations, the basis of the agricultural and economic activity of the town.

Here you can visit the Church of San Jacinto, built in 1505, the card factory, which held the sales monopoly of this product in América and, at two kilometres from the town centre, the house in which the poet Salvador Rueda was born.

Its main festivities are celebrated in August: the feast day of its Patron Saint, San Bernardo. At these, one can taste the typical dishes of Macharaviaya.: “los maimones”, “el gazpachuelo” and grapes in brandy.

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