La Alpujarra
  • Alpujarras Guide
    • High Alpujarra – Poqueira Gorge (Capileira, Bubión & Pampaneira)
    • Capileira
    • High Alpujarra – Tahá de Pitres (Pitres and its hamlets)
    • Low Alpujarra – Orgiva and area
    • Alpujarra Restaurants
  • Alpujarra Walks
    • Mulhacén
    • La Gaseosa
    • Bubión sunset
    • O Sel Ling
    • La Escarihuela
    • La Cebadilla
    • Poqueira Gorge to Tahá Valley
    • Four hamlets
    • La Salud
  • Alpujarra Articles
    • Sierra Nevada National Park
    • The Quiet Magician
  • Alpujarra activities
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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.


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Capileira restaurants: one of the three around the village square
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Capileira map
Capileira map
Guess a popular sport in the Alpujarra
Capileira: La Pizzería
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See: Average month-by-month temperatures for Capileira
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.
In steep Capileira, they say: Go up old. go down young.
Going down's easy
Cheap and plentiful produce
Tuesday is market day
Anothe busy day in Capileira
Another busy day in Capileira
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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!

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View down to Bubión & Pampaneira

A place for art

Buy or just enjoy the paintings in Paco's shop
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.


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A path winds along the gorge and down to the river
Capileira, La Alpujarra, Granada
Winter sun, snowy mountains

Streets of Capileira

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