Albuñán is a small and cosy town, surrounded by beautiful places located in the North limit of the Sierra Nevada Natural Park. The last Sunday of May it celebrates the Flowers’ Celebration, in which the young men who want to get married gather flowers and entertain their future wives, singing and dancing in their honour. In June the Ethnographic Fair is organized. It consist on a market of the first third of the XX century with farmers and cattle dealers with clothes of the time and stalls with agricultural products and songs and dances with the own fandangos of the area.
According to the Arab writing with which the name of Albuñán appears registered in the local archive of Guadix, its name (al-Bunyán) means "the building", without being really known to which it could make reference specifically. Although it has not been possible to find out the exact period of its foundation, it is known that this town has andalusi medieval origin.
Like many other towns of Granada, Albuñán began to grow as urban core after the expulsion of the Arabs in the XVI century; from then settlers of different parts of Spain occupied its land. In its origin, Albuñán was an old Arab farmhouse, in which families who were dedicated to the cereal cultivation lived. According to chronicles of the Marques of the Ensenada it had a small castle-fortress of which there are not rests conserved today. After the Reconquista it depended on the Bishop of Guadix.
In Albuñán cereals native of the dry land and magnificent vegetables are produced. One of the most typical recipes of this town is elaborated with them: the aubergine pie.
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