The Regional Minister for Justice, José Antonio Nieto, placed the symbollic first stone for the new law courts in Órgiva that will serve the needs of 23 towns and villages in the Alpujarra Granadina.
The Guardia Civil rescued a man in his 80s who had become lost in the hills between Pampaneira and Bubión in the Alpujarra Granadina.
The German man, whose frozen body was found this week on the Sierra Nevada, wasn’t even wearing a coat.
OK, living on the Costa Tropical you see the idea of snowfall as something special – in more northern climes, it can be a pain, but even so…
A Guardia Civil, mountain-rescue team was called out to rescue a Belgian couple in their mid 60s after they became stuck above a barranco in the Alpujarra.
The tiny Alpujarra village of Bubión has a contagion rate of 1,342 per 100,000 but is not keen on the idea of closing its municipal limits in the middle of summer.
The Junta announced last night that the Costa Tropical and the Alpujarra are now on Level Three, having dropped from Level Four.
Several municipalities in Granada are tottering on the brink of closure, amongst them Almuñécar, which now has 464 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Coming down from Pitres in the Alpujarra this morning, we passed a continual stream of traffic heading up to the snow; last night left a thick mantle.
The number of municipalities in Granada that have never had one case of Covid-19 since the pandemic began dwindles – now there are only four.