Archidona has a wide range of festivals and traditions throughout the year that ought to be experienced with intensity. With the streets as an ideal space to participate, share and have fun as a fundamental step of the vibrant, intense, happy and colorful way of living the life we have on this land.
And with the pleasure of savoring the best traditional and updated recipes from its gastronomic offer.
Culture is an element that defines and conditions the identity of a city. In Archidona, we have spaces that collect all its cultural baggage. Thus, the city’s interpretation center brings us closer to the history and experiences that define Archidona.
The unusual and peculiar radio museum is an impressive tour of the different models of radios and gramophones, ever since the creation of the radio.
The interpretation center of Sor María del Socorro, collects the history, mysticism and life of that minimal nun in the process of beatification.
Without forgetting the different brotherhood houses of Archidona; They are treasures that keep the heritage of these corporations in their five centuries of existence.
An essential walk through the walled enclosure, culminating the visit in the interpretation center, located in the sanctuary of the Virgin of Gracia.
Finally, the library and the municipal historical archive are the guardians of the life and history of Archidona since the 15th century.
If you wonder about the different festivals and traditions that take place throughout the year, they all define Archidona. Its annual festive cycle is the perfect excuse for residents and visitors to coexist, and for the enjoyment of the streets as a collective, public space.
Amongst all of them, we can highlight: Carnival, with its irony and its transgression. Holy Week, with its exceptional imagery, its rich heritage, the sumptuousness of its processional parades and its peculiar anthropological content, as a sign of identity.
The dog fair is a showcase of the various forms of relationships between people and the best friend of man and woman.
The August fair with its color, its light and its characteristic summer joy. Without forgetting its peculiar and unusual night pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Grace, in the early morning of each August 15th.
Archidona has a diverse gastronomic offer, based on the healthy Mediterranean diet and local products. It stems from tradition, but also from modernity, with the incorporation of new culinary trends, but always with quality as its star feature. From the typical and characteristic tapas, to the most elaborate dishes to satisfy all tastes. In any case, a pleasure for the senses and to stop along the way and enjoy a taste of life.
We cannot fail to mention the gratifying and delicious offering of pastry products from the different local bakeries, highlighting the excellent products of the Convent of the Monjas Mínimas, that they have carefully prepared following the recipes and tradition of almost five centuries of stay in Archidona.