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What to see and do in Pampaneira

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

1 Villages · 1 Activities · 1 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Pampaneira

Pampaneira
Village
Resettled after the conquest of the kingdom of Granada, at the western end of the Poqueira gorge. In 2025 it has 312 inhabitants; it has been part of 'The Most Beautiful Villages of Spain' since 2013.
El entierro de la zorra
Activity
Carnival tradition in which a firework-rigged effigy shaped like a fox is paraded through the village streets and burned.
Pampaneira, primer Pueblo Más Bonito de Granada
Curiosity
In 2013 Pampaneira joined the network Los Pueblos Más Bonitos de España (Spain's Most Beautiful Villages), becoming the first municipality in the province of Granada to do so.
La resistencia morisca del Poqueira
Historical milestone
After the fall of the Kingdom of Granada, the moriscos held out for nearly eighty years in these valleys until they were subdued by Juan de Austria under Felipe II; the area was later resettled with Castilian colonists.