Puerto de los Pescadores - Cristo de las Agonías, Alhaurin el Grande (Málaga)

05 07 2021

Puerto de los Pescadores – Cristo de las Agonias Chapel

This walk starts on the off road parking on the A387 opposite the Mijas 10Km sign.

Make your way down to the main roundabout (no zebra crossings provided. Also note in the evenings the Alhaurin el Grande sign in the middle of the roundabout has a nice multi coloured light display).

Then take the path to the right adjacent to La Boma restaurant and a small estate agent.
This goes down into an area called Llano del Cojo passing the Finca la Mota restaurant and eventually coming out onto the pedestrian walkway, built a few years ago and is very popular with the locals for their daily constitutional.

Keeping going until you get to the Chapel, passing on your right what used to be the old brothel (according to the locals).
From here turn right and go up the arroyo del Tejar, which has seen better days. At the top you then come down another branch of the arroyo and pick up the hidden El Tejar trail, which will lead you back to the BP petrol station and the restaurant La Ventilla, which is very popular and parking at times is very hard to find.

This is my 3rd breakfast route on the outskirts of Alhaurin which goes into the Sierra de Mijas (north side).
The walk has about 50% shade mainly in the sierra.
There are some houses above the chapel and dogs came out to investigate. I would be very cautious if you are taking dogs on this route.
Walking poles are advisable.

Information on the chapel:-
The inscription that is still preserved says that
‘This chapel was built at the expense and solicitude of Francisco Vicente de Burgos in the year 1783’.
A simple yet interesting baroque facade of apertures and curves, inside Christ of the Agonies is worshiped, whose carving is the only one that emerged unscathed from the events of 1936 thus making it the oldest remaining religious image.
Legend has it that in the middle of the 19th century it helped heal many sick people with cholera who entrusted themselves to the suffering of Christ.