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What to see and do in Bayárcal

What to see and do in Bayárcal (Alpujarra Almeriense, Almería): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Historical milestones

How far each place is from the centre of Bayárcal

Iglesia de San Francisco Javier (Bayárcal) 50 m
Ermita de Ánimas 3.8 km

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What to see and do in Bayárcal

Bayárcal
Village
At 1,258 m of altitude, it is the highest municipality in the province of Almería, on the southern slope of Sierra Nevada. After the defeat of the rebel Moriscos in 1572 it was repopulated with settlers, many of them from Navarre.
Iglesia de San Francisco Javier (Bayárcal)
Monument
16th-century Mudéjar church with an altarpiece from the same century and Baroque carvings from the Granada school of Alonso Cano.
Ermita de Ánimas
Monument
Square-plan stone hermitage located next to the cemetery at the entrance to the village from Paterna del Río, probably dating from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.
Rendición morisca de Ynizar ante Felipe II
Historical milestone
In 1572 the troops of Felipe II defeated the rebel Moriscos of Ynizar in the vicinity of Bayárcal, the final episode of the War of the Alpujarras in the area; the village was afterward repopulated, largely with settlers from Navarre.