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El Cortijo del Fraile

This abandoned farmstead on a windswept plain 6km northwest of Rodalquilar was the scene of the tragic, true-life love-and-revenge story that inspired Federico García Lorca’s best-known play, Blood Wedding. In 1928, in what's known as El Crimen de Níjar (the Níjar Crime), a woman due to be married here disappeared with another man, who was then shot dead by the brother of the jilted groom. The romantically ruined 18th-century buildings are now fenced off but maintain a suitably doom-laden aura.

Take the ALP824 road (which soon becomes a dirt track) 5km east from Los Albaricoques.

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