Nívar is a municipality located in the

province of Granada Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of Albacete, Murcia, Almería, Jaén, Córdoba, Málaga, and the Mediterranean Sea (along the Costa Tropi ...

, Spain, situated in the autonomous community of

Andalusia Andalusia ( , ; , ) is the southernmost autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Peninsular Spain, located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomou ...

. It is located in the centre-part of the county known as

Vega de Granada The Vega de Granada is a ''comarca'' (county, but with no administrative role) in the province of Granada, in Andalusia, Spain. The name refers to the basin near the city of Granada. This comarca was established in 2003 by the Government of Anda ...

, which its situated in the northeast skirt of

Sierra de la Alfaguara The Sierra de la Alfaguara is a mountain range in the Cordillera Subbética, beside the Sierra de Huétor in southern Spain. It lies within the Parque Natural de la Sierra de Huétor y la Alfaguara. Location The mountain range rises above the ...

. It is just 14 km away from the capital of the province. At the same time, it is confined by the municipalities of Cogollos Vega, Huétor Santillán, Alfacar and Güevéjar. According to the 2005

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

( INE), the municipality has a population of 681 inhabitants.

Festivities

There are two major festivals in the municipality. The first occurs in the second weekend of September and honours the local saint, Santo Cristo de la Salud. The celebrations include leisure and cultural activities, sports tournaments (notably a football match between single and married), a costume contest, and a community feast. On the third of May is the local festival, the Day of the Cross. The citizens of the town create a

romeria Christianity has a strong tradition of pilgrimages, both to sites relevant to the New Testament narrative (especially in the Holy Land) and to sites associated with later saints or miracles. History Christian pilgrimages were first made to sit ...

to the cross of Sierra de la Yedra, accompanied by dance and music and concluded with a meal. The

Eucharist The Eucharist ( ; from , ), also called Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament or the Lord's Supper, is a Christianity, Christian Rite (Christianity), rite, considered a sacrament in most churches and an Ordinance (Christianity), ordinance in ...

is celebrated near the iron cross that crowns the mountain range.

References

Municipalities in the Province of Granada {{Granada-geo-stub

Festivities

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