Capileira
Capileira in La Alpujarra is the highest village in the Poqueira Gorge and the second highest in Spain (1,432 m).
It lies on the sunny, southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains, from where it gazes down the spectacular valley. For great walks and a natural mountain holiday, it is perfect. The village offers a very good range of facilities and a welcoming atmosphere. Bars provide free tapas with drinks and wholesome, inexpensive meals are served at a number of Capileira restaurants. Once famed as the last refuge of the Moors in Spain, La Alpujarra is better known these days for its mountain-cured ham, goat’s cheese, honey, strong wine and rural tourism with superb trails. 
Capileira restaurants: one of the three around the village square
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Capileira map
 Capileira: La Pizzería |
Yet it wasn’t so long ago that the villagers were bemused by people turning up and wanting to stay, taken aback by the dramatic setting and fascinated by the beautiful labyrinth of narrow whitewashed streets, splashed with colour by geraniums, and wide open to spectacular views down the gorge and up to the snowy peaks of Sierra Nevada.
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 Another busy day in Capileira |
Street leading up to the Square.
El Gato Negro cottage is to the right: click to see it.
Capileira has a school, bank with ATM, two supermarkets, two bakeries, a butcher's, doctor's surgery, pharmacy, several restaurants and café-bars with terraces and WiFi, craft and souvenir shops, a leather workshop and store, a museum, fruit-and-veg market, a park and children's play area.
Not bad for a little village of 530 people!  View down to Bubión & Pampaneira |
A place for art
Capileira is remarkable for its resident artists.
The Alpujarra dreamworld of Cristobal Hoare contrasts with mountain scenes and wildlife captured by Jaime Avilés. You can do your art course with Maryse Alen: discover Vedic Art.  A path winds along the gorge and down to the river |
Winter sun, snowy mountains
Streets of Capileira
