The only town-libro in Spain is located in Andalusia and in its streets ‘live’ the Little Prince or El Quijote

Reading awakens whole universes in our mind, where words and characters come alive with surprising intensity. In the same way, there is a corner of the alpujarra grenadine where this imaginative power has materialized: Its streets and squares have become living pagesinhabited by literary figures as emblematic as the beginning or Quijote.

This is possible in the Alpujarra de la Sierra, the only people-book in Spain where nature and literature live together in harmony. This cultural project was born after the pandemic in order to boost its streets and attract visitors and inhabitants before the threat of depopulation. Just two hours from the province of Malaga, this city of the book invites travelers to explore their cobbled streets decorated with living books.

Since 2023, the four nuclei of the municipality (Mecina Bombarón, Yegen, El Golco and Montenegro) have become a true literary promenade. From The little prince posed on his B-612 asteroid and a yellow tile road that refers to the country of Ozeven murals dedicated to Don Quixote, Alicia in Wonderland or Mary Poppins. Beyond the stories, you can also see a plaster dedicated to Federico García Lorca.

Nature and literature

Throughout their cobbled tours, visitors run into banks, sources and bins that adopt the form of open volumes, and even with books that hang from the trees or pots painted from eternal novels such as the doctor. In turn, The old telephone booths have been converted into small librariestransforming into peace oasis where to enjoy a good reading and exchange specimens.

“A project that was born as a creative response to the pandemia and that today blooms as a sanctuary for book lovers and tranquility,” can be read on the official Alpujarra page of the Sierra. To know the municipality in its entirety, theatrical visits and storyteller sessions are carried out For the little ones, in addition to many other outdoor activities carried out in summer.

In addition to its urban decoration, Alpujarra de la Sierra also offers a network of signposted paths that travel valleys, olive groves and viewpoints, inviting hiking lovers to discover Authentic landscapes that cross the four population centers and the natural environment that surrounds them. Two years after its implementation, the people book has managed to place among the most visited destinations in Andalusia.