The Busquístar district is part of the Sierra Nevada Natural Park, it is located in its Southern slope and surrounded by a great chestnut forest. The town is located in the same edge of the ravine formed by the Trevélez River and conserves the Berber structure in its houses and streets.
Busquístar has splendid landscapes and numerous mountain areas where you can practice trekking and adventure sports. It is also worthy to delight the set of its peculiar tinaos covered with launa, because it is one of the towns that better conserves the traditional Alpujarra’s architecture, with houses perfectly adapted to the mountainous area and the climate of the place, ordered in narrow and steep streets.
Of undetermined origin, it is known that it depended of the Taha (district or county) of Ferreira during the XIII to the XV centuries. It was formed by great amount of cortijos and small villages that extended by the entire district. As the rest of the region, it suffered the repression that had like consequence the revolt and later expulsion of the Moorish that inhabited it. Later, at the end of the war, it was repopulated with settlers coming from other regions. After these events, the town in charge of administering the area was Albuñol, but in the XIX century it passed to be controlled by Órgiva. Its iron mines have been in operation until a very recent time and many families depended on them.
The asadura encebollada stands out as typical recipe of Busquístar. Also these dishes are representative: the soup of toasted pepper, the migas and the fennel stew. Among the desserts, the peñascos and the twisted rolls stand out.
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