Alameda – Malaga

The inland town Alameda in Malaga Andalucia of 5,500 inhabitant’s lies north-west and is 15 minutes away from Antequera. Alameda is probably most famous for its cadaverous celebrity El Tempranillo, the legendary 19th century bandit born in nearby Jauja and buried in Alameda’s Iglesia de la Purisima Concepcion church.

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The so-called Principe de la Sierra, (prince of the mountains), is the most colourful of Andalucia’s many bandit heroes. A sort of Andalucian Robin Hood. There is a great Hotel just 1 km before you enter the town. Posada del Tempranillo. It has 19 rooms, traditional Andalucian food and throughout the summer you can order a “Menu of the Day” for 10,00 €. That’s a 3 course meal with a drink and eat next to the pool. Great way to chill out and bathe in the pool after lunch.

The Hotel construction was inspired by XIX Moorish architecture and it is surrounded by olive groves. To the left is a large English community living in Mobile homes. On the site of the Hotel was a former farmhouse where the famous bandit was mortally wounded.

Local information

Ayuntamiento de Alameda
Plaza de Espana 5, 29530 Alameda (Malaga)
Telephone: 952-710-025
http://www.alameda.es/

Residents
5500
Health Clinic Bars, shops, restaurants Schools Municipal pool Beach
1 h
Golf nearby Antequera 27km Malaga 65km Granada 110km Seville 145km Bus and train
services
Malaga airport
65Km
Granada airport
110Km
Seville airport
145Km

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The inland town Alameda in Malaga Andalucia was first settled as a town by the Phoenicians, but there is archaeological evidence of habitation dating back to Paleolithic and Neolithic times, probably 2-2,500 BCE. Vestiges of these settlements can be seen at the Necropolis Calcolitica just outside the town, a system of over twenty interconnected burial pits or ossuaries, some a metre wide.

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Alameda in Malaga was also an important settlement in Roman times, with the remains of a Roman villa and baths and a wealth of artefacts discovered suggesting a major trade and military base at the site in the first century BC. The remains of the baths are maintained in a 3000 square metre enclosure in Calle Enmedio, and have been dated to between the first and third centuries AC.

The site is now a preserved national monument. The region itself was under the rule of the Order of Santiago – the Knights of St James – until 1559, a time when Alameda had barely thirty inhabitants. The town grew during the 17th century, thanks to it’s specialisation in esparto grass, wood and carpentry (one version of the origin of its name is from a poplar grove), and an influx of settlers from Alameda itself.

The main focus of the of Alameda in Malaga is the central Fuente de la Placeta. Built from delicate local stone at the time of King Carlos III, in the Plaza de Espana. Until recent decades it was still the main source of fresh water for the town. The sizeable width of the fountain’s base made it impossible to fill a large pitcher without leaning over and falling into the fountain. Townsfolk developed a trick of putting the pitcher on the ground and filling it using a hollow cane reed.

Just outside the inland town of Alameda, the Mirador de la Camorra offers excellent views over the town and surrounding landscape. Some 250 metres higher than Alameda’s 430 metres above sea level, there’s an easy path to the top.

A couple of kilometres west of Alameda is the Laguna de la Ratosa. The same like the nearby Fuente de Piedra a place to find flamingos and other migrating birds and an abundance of other wildlife. The town still specialises in its work with esparto grass, wood and carpentry, in particular silleria, the production of wood seats.

Fiestas

  • February – Alameda’s key festivals is the Candelaria procession.
  • 15-18th of Mary – The three-day celebrations for its patron saint San Isidro Labrador
  • First week of August – The town feria.

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