We start the route in the Plaza de la Constitución, a space of collective identity in which the town’s main festivities take place. We then cross the archway next to the Cajamar bank.
Once there, we enter the hamlet of the municipality where we find the oldest quarter. We turn first left and at the end of the slope we come to the Torreón de María Sagredo, which bears witness to the existence of the old defensive fortress, named after this heroine, who defended Alozaina from an attempted assault during the Moorish rebellion in 1570, by throwing hives of bees, thus protecting the women, children and elderly people who lived in the village.
A few metres from this is the only niche that still remains of the old Via Crucis, known as the Cruz de la Villa, which is protected by a handmade wrought iron grille and a small roof, decorated with flowers and candles by the villagers themselves.
We continue along Calle Villa until we reach the Castle Viewpoint Park, a walled enclosure with battlements and towers, built in the 1950s to restore the old fortress of Alozaina, from which part of the Sierra Prieta and the Hoya de Málaga could be seen and controlled.
Returning to the path towards the niche, turning left we reach the Parish Church of Santa Ana, erected at the beginning of the 16th century in the highest part of the village, where the images of the patron saints of Alozaina, Santiago and Santa Ana, can be seen.
We go down Calle Iglesia, taking the first left into Calle Solana, where we can see that the streets are not only spaces for transit, but also spaces to be lived in. Witness to this is the corner adorned with flowers and plants that we observe as we walk.
The adaptation to the terrain means that the streets are not uniformly wide, but narrow and widen slightly as a result of the Muslim heritage. Proof of this is the dead-end street, known as “el calcetín” (the sock), located at the end of Calle Solana.
We then take the first left from Calle Solana into Calle Corrales, so called because it leads us to the livestock area of the town.
We continue straight on until we go down a slope that takes us to the outskirts of the village. We border the hill, where the remains of the old wall are located, and from which we can see the olive groves characteristic of this enclave.
At the end of this path, we can visit the aqueduct, fountain and washing place of “El Albar”, whose water comes from the Sierra Prieta spring that formerly supplied Alozaina.
On the way back to the village, we go up Calle Cerrillo and Calle Rodahuevos until we reach Calle Málaga, which leads us to the end of the route, Plaza de la Constitución.