The Sacred Sierra

The Sacred Sierra
Dawn over the Sierra

Sant Antoni's Fire
Mid-winter fire festival

Fire Watching
Spectators at the Sant Antoni fiesta

The Way of Sant Antoni

21st -Century Moorish Ways
Four hundred years after the expulsion of Spain’s last Moors, elderly women of the Sierra still veil themselves in the ancient manner

Cheese Making

The Shepherd

Watching the Fiesta

A Pause
An afternoon rest, before the fiestas kick off again in the evening

Masía Door

Door Handle 1

Door Handle 2

Door Handle 3
Yes, that is what you think it is - and a very ancient symbol at that

Masía Window

Mountaintop Chapel

Leading From the Front
The procession to the mountaintop chapel enters its final phase

The Onlooker

The Pilgrim
A ‘Pelegrí’ from Les Useres approaches a Sacred Site

Pelegríns
The pilgrimage resumes

Tame Boar
Training a wild boar to hunt for black truffles

Medieval Bridge
Winter in the Sierra




















