The small mountain village of Carataunas in the Alpujarra Granadina suffered the loss of one of its inhabitants in a road accident.
Carataunas Road Death
by Hugh MacArthur •
Alpujarra
News from La Alpujarra
La Taha Festival
by Louise Powell •
If you have ever ventured up to the higher villages of the Alpujarra Granadina, you will have heard of La Taha, which is a group of small villages witin one municipality.
Priest Packs His Bags
by Martin Myall •
The parish priest of Trevélez decided to throw in the towel and resign from his post there.
Pesky Priest?
by Martin Myall •
Locals from Trevélez, especially a women’s association there, are not happy with their priest after he has put obstacles to their organising celebrations for San Benito on the 12th of July.
The Value of Válor
by Hugh MacArthur •
Do you dread your water bill? Well, you wouldn’t in Válor, deep in the Alpujarra Granadina, where each household only pays six euros… a year!
Weather: As June Ends
by Martin Myall •
Well, we haven’t published one of these for a while, but the BBC is talking of a blistering heatwave in Spain, but in the province of Granada it is not so bad.
Arrests in Órgiva
by Hugh MacArthur •
The Guardia Civil arrested four people in Órgiva; three men and a woman, aged between twenty-seven and fifty, as part of Operation Cobre Kay Alpujarra.
Road Accident Near Tovizcón
by Hugh MacArthur •
An air-ambulance helicopter was used to fly a woman, who had been injured in a car crash, to a hospital in the city of Granada.
Alpujarra Roadworks Restart
by Martin Myall •
After months of zero activity on the roadworks to improve access to the Alpujarra from the A-44, the Junta de Andalucía has given the go ahead to go back to work on it.
Who in Their Right Mind…?
by Martin Myall •
It hasn’t stopped raining since the Jana wet-front arrived and will stay with us most of the week but two people decided to walk in the mountains around Capileira on Friday.