{"id":8555,"date":"2026-07-17T12:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=8555"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:56:29","slug":"comares-verdiales-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/event\/festival-de-verdiales-de-comares\/","title":{"rendered":"Comares Verdiales Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every July, the Plaza Balc\u00f3n de la Axarqu\u00eda hosts the traditional Verdiales Groups\u2019 Gathering, an unmissable event for <strong>lovers of M\u00e1laga\u2019s folklore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event features numerous guest groups representing the three styles of verdiales, who put on performances and re-enact the traditional \u00abchoques\u00bb, one of the most characteristic features of this cultural tradition.<\/p>\n<p>The deep-rooted place it has held in popular folklore has led to<strong> Comares has its own distinct styles of verdiales: the \u201cAlmog\u00eda style\u201d, the \u201cMontes style\u201d and the \u201cComares style\u201d,<\/strong> maintaining a melodic and profound instrumental rhythm, which is hugely popular in the province, and performed in a distinctive way because they embody a unique understanding of the festival, bringing it into closer harmony with the rugged beauty of the surrounding mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The Panda <strong>\u201cComares-style\u201d<\/strong> It consists of <strong>a violin, two guitars, a tambourine, two cymbals and a lute.<\/strong> Furthermore, every verdiales group has its own \u201cmayor\u201d, the person responsible for organising and leading the group during its performance. In the verdiales of Comares, then, there is nothing superfluous; everything is shaped by centuries of tradition, with an undeniable ancestral richness, not without certain echoes of the Agarenos.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the verdiales of Comares, then, there is nothing superfluous; everything about them is shaped by centuries of tradition, with an undeniable ancestral richness, not without certain echoes of the Agarenos.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","event_category":[],"event_tag":[173],"class_list":["post-8555","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_tag-fiestas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=8555"},{"taxonomy":"event_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_tag?post=8555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}