Capileira

Capileira is a municipality in the Alpujarra in the Spanish province of Granada.

Capileira is 1436 meters above sea level, making it the second highest village in Spain after Trévelez. The place has the typical for this area village structure consisting of upper, middle and lower village. The partial hundreds of years old houses are mostly white and simple, arranged in cubes above and next to each other. The main industry is in addition to tourism, the production of special, long-haired blankets dar. In the same valley located just south are the villages Bubión and Pampaneira.

Gerald Brenan described the Capileira the 1920s in his 1957 autobiography " South of Granada ".

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