Bacares fills with scarecrows: more than thirty figures, each with its own name, until 29 November
Bacares has dotted more than thirty scarecrows, each with its own name and story, around its streets. The trail is free and can be walked until 29 November.
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In Bacares, more than thirty new residents have taken to the streets. They are called Espartina, Nogalina, Corralito and Corralete, or El Guardián del Otoño (the Guardian of Autumn). They don’t say a word, but each one has its own story. They are the scarecrows that are once again dotted around the streets, squares and corners of this village in the Sierra de los Filabres, on a free trail that can be walked until 29 November.
The initiative, organised by Bacares Town Council and the municipality’s Punto Vuela (digital skills centre), was born in 2023 to give the village’s shops a helping hand. Its mayor, Encarnación Zaguirre, explains in La Voz de Almería that it was also conceived as a tourist attraction, so that whoever comes up to see them discovers the landscape and heritage of a municipality which, according to that newspaper, has just over 200 registered residents. “We are very isolated, but we exist too”, she summed up.
A trail with a map and named characters
The slogan on the poster says it all: ‘Little stories that make Bacares great’. The trail map, published alongside the poster on the Turismo Almanzora website, numbers each stop with the names of its characters and the street where they are waiting. Many of those names look back to traditional trades and long-familiar corners:
- La Castañera (the chestnut seller) and El Guardián del Otoño, on Calle Manuel Zaguirre Cano.
- Perico ‘El regaor’ (the irrigator), next to the irrigation channel on Calle San Marcos.
- La Bruja Rosenda (Rosenda the witch) and the washerwomen Tomasa and Anastasia, at the Fuente Grande wash house.
- La Aguadora Luisa (Luisa the water carrier), at the Fuente San Juan, and Zaida and Amir, at the castle.
- Eloy ‘El colmenero’ (the beekeeper) and company, in the Plaza Filabres.
According to La Voz de Almería, a QR code lets you find out the name and story of each character. And they are not alone: residents decorate the village with pumpkins, chestnuts, corn cobs, pomegranates, almonds, walnuts and sunflowers, and the CPR Alto Almanzora (a rural state school) has also done its bit with its own autumn scarecrows.
After all, in a mountain village every visit counts: it means people strolling around, asking questions, having a drink at the bar or buying something at the shop. That is exactly what this trail was created for: you follow it on a stroll around the village, and it costs nothing. For any queries, the town council can be reached on 950 42 10 16.
From elValle Actualidad, we’ve jotted it down for you: until 29 November, Bacares has more than thirty reasons to head up into the mountains.
