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NIGÜELAS

DESCRIPTION

Granada municipality, belonging to the Valle de Lecrín region; called "the balcony of the Valley". It is located on the right bank of the Torrente river and at the foot of the El Zahor mountain, 931 m. altitude. It is 3 km from Dúrcal, 28 km from Granada and 15 min. of the Alpujarra. Located halfway between the capital and the Granada coast.
From this town -and its municipal term- you can see a wide variety of beautiful landscapes such as the view of the town and Sierra Nevada in the background from the old national road. La Razuela, a small esplanade at the foot of El Zahor, above the town, which constitutes a splendid viewpoint of the entire region. Los Cahorros, on the Torrente river, 1 km from the town center. The streets and patios that recall its Muslim origin. The Sierra, which is accessed by lanes that start from the town.
This area has a lot to offer travelers and visitors; excellent walking trails, local craft shops, tapas bars. Locals are friendly and open. There are many places of interest such as Arab baths, ruined castles, old oil mills and interesting churches.
The resources of its 1,200 inhabitants are mainly agricultural: olive, almond, citrus, cereal, legumes, vineyards and potatoes. It also has a great theatrical and musical tradition.

  • Number of Inhabitants: 1120
  • Distance from the Capital: 32 km

GASTRONOMY

The typical dishes are those of the Mediterranean cuisine, in which oil, flour (wheat, rye or corn), legumes, fruits, vegetables and nuts abound as components in their recipes.
During the winter:
→ Pucheros de hinojos, de col o de cardos.
→ Crumbs: from wheat flour, bread and corn.
→ Remojones: of potatoes, onions, preserved tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, black olives and oil; of oranges from the Valley, with oil, roasted cod, dried tomatoes and olives.
→ Rice with rabbit or chicken, normally prepared every Sunday.
And light dishes for the summer:
→ Gazpacho
→ Ajoblanco, prepared with almond or bean flour - Escabeche de pescado frito
→ Pipirrana, salad with cucumber, spring onion, pepper, tomato, oil, vinegar and salt
→ Fried with rabbit or chicken.
→ Pisto, fried with all the products of the vegetable.

The stews and casseroles are consumed throughout the year as well as pestiños, oil cakes, fried milk, fried doughnuts.
As a complement to all these dishes there are always the products of the slaughter, as well as the Serrano ham of a special sweetness as it is cured by the dry and cold winds of the mountains.

PARTIES

→ On St. Mark's Day (25 April). It is celebrated with a pilgrimage and a picnic in La Razuela and El Romeral.
→ The Patron Saint's Day (third Sunday in September). On the occasion of the celebration of the Virgen de las Angustias, patron saint of Nigüelas. It is celebrated with processions, verbena, music band, sport competitions, cucañas and fireworks.
→ The Cavalcade of the Three Kings (January 5th and 6th), with the traditional parade and children's theatre.

SPORTS

Hiking routes, bike routes, Charpas at parties. Dominoes and tute in bars. Rabbit, partridge, wild boar and mountain goat hunting. Football, basketball, tennis, soccer, swimming and mountaineering.

MORE INFORMATION

Solo tienen parada en Nigüelas aquellos en que se menciona Nigüelas en la tabla, para fines de semana y festivos Hay variaciones

LINKS OF INTEREST

PLACES OF INTEREST

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    Church of San Juan Bautista

    Mudejar temple dedicated to San Juan Bautista, built in the sixteenth century with stone masonry and solid brick beams.

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    Zayas Palace

    Current seat of the Town Hall. Former summer palace from the Zayas, built in the 16th century and restored in the 90s.

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    "La Erilla" Oil Mill

    Oil mill that has been working since the 15th century. Its state of conservation is really good.

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    Sendero de la Pavilla

    The path of La Pavilla is a popular and well signposted path that runs through the irrigation canal of Andalusian heritage, allowing the hiker to be in contact with the rural landscape of the Lecrín Valley.

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Church of San Juan Bautista

Its floor plan is rectangular and it presents a stone masonry factory and solid brick girders. The cornice is made of Conchar limestone, as well as its two doorways in Doric style and a semicircular arch. Inside, it is important to note the Mudejar coffered ceiling made of Albuñuelas pine, rebuilt after the fire that took place during the Moorish rebellion in 1568. The nave is separated from the main chapel by a large round arch. The coffered ceiling boasts a large pineapple carved with muqarnas. The altarpiece is Baroque from the end of the 18th century, gold and polychrome, and its structure consists of three separate streets with elegant stipes of profuse decoration.
 
This temple treasures a magnificent imagery with sculptures from the 16th to the 20th centuries. It highlights the sculpture of the patron saint San Juan Bautista, made by the great Granada image maker José Risueño. The interior of its walls is decorated with paintings from the Granada schools, some of them of great worth.

 

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Zayas Palace

Throught the entrance gate we arrive to the first patio where we admire its Renaissance portal, the royal balcony and the noble coat of arms that culminates the façade. Next we enter the palace itself through a hallway, where we admire two monumental ceramic jars embedded in the ground and with the signatures or anagrams of the artisans who made them. We pass to the central square patio with Doric-style Sierra Elvira marble columns and Albuñuelas pine wooden footings that support the beams and coffered ceilings of the upper corridor. From here we can go up the royal Mudejar-style staircase decorated with small and old tiles made by hand and embedded between the tiles. On the upper floor we can see some magnificent carved cabinets as well as some very beautiful collection fans. The current distribution is as follows: on the ground floor, offices and social room for the elderly; and in the upper one, plenary hall, mayor's office and councilors' offices. In the center of the patio we have a Granada-style fountain that gives great musicality to this space.
 
From this courtyard we go to the French-style garden, where its magnificent borders of boxwoods, the formidable magnolia trees, as well as the ancient specimens of false acacias, conifers and centenary Jupiters, irrigated by the water of its elegant fountains are to be admired... There is a good specimen of strawberry tree, as well as the hundred-year-old holm oak from the adjoining orchard.

 

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"La Erilla" Oil Mill

Donated by María Antonia Zayas Osorio Covalche, its state of conservation is very good, due to its restoration in 1991.
This oil mill, located in the urban area, has been in operation since the 15th century until the second decade of the 20th century. It preserves the machinery and it is a good example of the different types of mills that have been used throughout history.

At the entrance there is a haulage yard, in which there are some small dens for the olives (trojes or arrojes). In a first room we can still see an example of a blood mill, of Roman origin, which was moved by the force of an animal, in an anti-clockwise direction.
 
The La Erilla mill was moved by the driving force of water, coming from the ditch that descends from the Partidor de la Pavilla.
The oil was collected in the "pozuelos" under the settling beams. The pressing process takes longer than milling and the master miller's assistants, numbering two in number, continued to work through the night. They slept on "chillas" (raised bunks off the ground).
 
The solid residue (pomace) served as fuel and food for domestic animals. The oil is very sensitive to oxygenation and ages easily. It must be stored well covered and in a cool place. For this reason, in the mill there are jars embedded in the ground to preserve it for longer.

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Sendero de la Pavilla

El sendero de la Pavilla es un popular camino, bien señalizado, que recorriendo la acequia de herencia andalusí, permite al excursionista estar en contacto con el paisaje rural del Valle de Lecrín.

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