• 1Illora

   

Region: Loja - autonomous region: Andalusia

Populations (10): Algarinejo, Huétor-Tájar, Illora, Loja, Moclín, Montefrío, Moraleda de Zafayona, Salar, Villanueva Mesía and Zagra.

Geographic data: South and West it borders the province of Malaga, to the North with the Jaen and to the Northwest with the Córdoba, East Montes de Granada, Alhama and the Vega de Granada regions.

Tourist interests: Are buildings related to funerary rituals of different eras. - Or dolmens - megalithic structures constitute a monumental testimony to the more remote past and the archaeological sites testify that the territory has always been crossroads of cultures and ways.

Agricultural production: The olive grove is of the most important species in the area, followed at some distance by almond trees. With respect to arable crops are wheat and barley.

Gastronomy: The stew of chickpeas, truncheon and ajoblanco, soup with noodles, crumbs, Orange dip, Zucchini gazpacho, sobrehúsa of beans, the remojones, hornazos and parts such as partridges and hares, sausages homemade as sausages, blood sausages or salami and the flounder in green sauce.

They are also typical sweets such as roscos, strokes, the bones of Saint, the sweet borrachuelos, roscos de piñonates, pestiños, torrijas, cakes and fig bread.

Traditions: The albardonería, the work of wicker and esparto, marble work and making lace and mantillas of great beauty.