{"id":177,"date":"2025-03-03T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/?post_type=municipios&#038;p=177"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:08:57","slug":"apiary","status":"publish","type":"municipios","link":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/municipios\/colmenar\/","title":{"rendered":"Colmenar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colmenar lies in the centre of the historic region of the \"Montes de M\u00e1laga\", nestled between two hills.  This municipality is on the border between the Axarquia region, which it joins through the Periana corridor, and the Montes region, which it joins from the west; it is located next to the old road to Granada. It offers a different landscape depending on which way you look at it: <strong>rocky mountains to the north and south and olive and cereal lands to the east and west.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colmenar <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is <\/span><strong>rural tourism<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <strong>mountainous nature<\/strong>culture and<\/span> Andalusian authenticity. The village whose origins date back to after the Christian conquest, <strong>presenta un trazado de calles estrechas y en suave pendiente conservando su trazado de origen \u00e1rabe y casas bajas encaladas. <\/strong>Su monumento m\u00e1s representativo es la Iglesia de la Asunci\u00f3n y su paraje de mayor inter\u00e9s paisaj\u00ed\u00adstico la Sierra de Camarolos y la del Jobo.<\/p>\n<p>Visita obligada son el\u00a0<strong>Mirador\u00a0<\/strong>de la Ermita de la Candelaria, uno de los m\u00e1s altos de la Axarqu\u00eda y desde el que disfrutar del espl\u00e9ndido<strong>\u00a0landscape<\/strong>\u00a0incluyendo Riogordo y el Embalse de La Vi\u00f1uela, y\u00a0el\u00a0<strong>Honey Museum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Colmenar es uno de los siete municipios que forman la <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/routes\/oil-route-of-the-mountains\/\">Oil and Mountains Route<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>que nos ofrece espectaculares cambios de paisaje, un embalse rodeado de monta\u00f1as y bonitos pueblos serranos colgados sobre el mediterr\u00e1neo.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":915,"template":"","class_list":["post-177","municipios","type-municipios","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/municipios\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/municipios"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/municipios"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}