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La Castañada

According to the Almuñécar Town Hall, hundreds of people gather in the town square to celebrate La Castañada Sierra at the beginning of the month.

It’s Chestnut Season!

Órgiva held its third year of the Castañada Alpujarreña, which was organised by the Ayuntamiento de Alpujarra de la Sierra, with a helping hand from the Ayuntamiento de Órgiva. The result was hundreds of kilos of chestnuts were roasted and handed around to locals and tourists.

Maroween

The Nerja municipal dependency of Maro, has combined the tradition of eating roasted chestnuts and sweet potato on All Saints Day with the ever-more-popular Halloween and come up with Maroween.