Romería type pilgrimage to Jeva

Every 25th of December in the morning, local people from Antequera (La Higuera, Villanueva de la Concepción , La Joya as well as other places) and the city of Antequera meet at the Hermitage of Jeva, to the south of the Nature Park of El Torcal, to worship Our Lady of the Purification.

This festival of National Tourist Interest starts with a peel of bells, then the traditonal "clash" of verdiales folk groups -typical folk singing and dance from the province of Málaga- and then they enter into the Hermitage.

Afterwards, you can try some of the homemade Christmas cakes called mantecados, coffee, anise and local doughnuts, as well as live music, until the image of the Virgin Mary is taken to the threshing floor where there is mass.

To finish off the festival, at around midday, there is a singing contest of "coplillas" in verdiales folk style and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, who is then taken back to her Hermitage and the festivities are brought to a close.