If you have not yet visited the municipality of Laroya, or if you want to repeat, this coming 13th April a meeting will be held to promote this beautiful enclave in the Sierra de los Filabres.
«Discover Laroya: from Cervantes to the Fires», is the title with which the Town Hall invites the visitor to discover more than the obvious, in a village that is a reference point for its rural tourism, but which they say Miguel de Cervantes passed through in his role as collector of the royal treasury within what was then considered the jurisdiction of Baza.
The Fires of Laroya also captured the attention of the whole country in the summer of 1945, when, due to circumstances yet to be determined, piles of wheat were burning in the highest part of the municipality, the jacket of a Guardia Civil and even a room where the sun did not shine; more than 100 fires in a month. If one thing is certain, according to the chronicles of the time, it is that these fires were not man-made.
The fiestas of San Ramón and the relationship between the Moors and Christians, associate the municipality with others in the area to promote these festivities. The quartets are an essential element in the conception of the celebration.
«Thanks to the support of the Provincial Council and the efforts of the Town Hall, we are recovering these festivities where the young people are beginning to make them their own,» says the mayoress Dolores Moreno.
Today in Laroya there are eight children and that is news. The decision of young families to settle in the town is the hope of the elders that the municipality will be filled with life.