La Peña de los enamorados (Lovers' Rock)
LEGEND & MORPHOLOGY
A unique symbol in the Antequera skyline; focus of legends and witness of the history of Antequera.
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The Rock
Limestone rock
800 m high
Anthropomorphous
Acceso
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Heritage
UNESCO World
Heritage Since 2016
The Peña de los Enamorados, a prominent natural formation of great cultural significance, stands in La Vega de Antequera (lowland) over 878 meters high. It has been awarded as World Heritage together with El Torcal and the Antequera Dolmens. This limestone rock, an icon of the Antequera landscape, has a peculiar morphology as it reminds the profile a lying face looking at the sky. The name comes from a legend of late Middle Age about the impossible love between two young people during the last stage of the Muslim domination.
A hopeless love
According to the popular legend, the daughter of the major of the neighbouring village of Archidona, Tazgona, and Tello, a Christian boy, fall deeply in love. However, they had to keep their relationship in secret because the race and religious diff ...
A unique and exceptional value
Once of the peculiarities of the Peña de los Enamorados is the close link with Menga, the sole Dolmen in the continental Europe facing an anthropomorphic mountain; reason by which it was awarded a UNESCO World Heritage. In concrete, the Menga’s cent ...
Your best selfies
The Peña de Los Enamorados is not famous just because the legend after which is named but also because the curious profile looking like the face of a lying man. Some people even assures that it is the head of a Indian looking at the sky and, from th ...
News | The Antequera’s Major confirms the discovery of a new Megalithic monument
The Major of Antequera, Mr Manolo Barón, and the Delegated Deputy Majors for Historic Heritage, Mrs Ana Cebrián, and for World Heritage, Mr Juan Rosas, confirm the discovery in our municipality of what, up to now, it seems a non-identified megalithi ...