See Cortijo del Fraile, Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, Spain

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The Cortijo del Fraile is a building located southeast of Níjar (Almería), within the Cabo de Gata-Níjar natural park, it has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest with the typology of Historic Site. The closest towns are Los Albaricoques and Rodalquilar . In its vicinity, the event known as the "Nijar crime" took place on July 22, 1928, which inspired the verse drama by Federico García Lorca entitled Blood Wedding. The farmhouse and its surroundings have been used for different film shoots such as The Good, the Ugly and the Bad , Death had a price , I am the Revolution and Giù la testa . Some television series have also been recorded on it, such as the end of the sixth season of Los Hombres de Paco. It is located on a 730-hectare farm and other smaller farmhouses located in the vicinity depended on it, such as La Felipa and the Requena farmhouse . One possibility of access to the farmhouse is the ALP-824 or Ctra. De Rodalquilar road, an unpaved section that joins the ends of the Los Albaricoques and Rodalquilar neighborhoods . It is a typical construction of the large agricultural and livestock farms in Andalusia , in which several units are distributed on a single floor around a central patio. It has an oratory, bell tower, funerary crypt with twelve niches, ovens, stables, piggy banks and a cistern. It belongs to a private company. The path is limited by lines of agaves on both sides. Due to its state of technical ruin, it is on the red list of heritage in danger. In 2011 some walls collapsed and the Ministry of Culture opened a sanctioning file against the property, which had not made any improvements to the building since its purchase in 1995. The association "Amigos del Parque de Cabo de Gata - Níjar "," Friends of the Alcazaba de Almería "as well as other groups and citizens of Níjar and Almería. they have mobilized on several occasions to request the intervention to avoid the irreparable loss of the enclave. There are and have been judicial processes to determine who should be in charge of the conservation of the property, either the City Council or the Junta de Andalucía, an exchange has been proposed and expropriation ruled out and the owner, the Diputación de Almería and members of the Governing Board of the natural park, without to date the future of the Asset of Cultural Interest has been definitively resolved. It was built by the Dominican friars of Almería in the 18th century, hence its name. It was known by the "cortijo del stove", because it housed a large oven for making bread in the central courtyard. In 1836, as a result of the laws of confiscation of the properties of the religious orders, it was confiscated by the state and, after auction, it passed into private hands. It is famous for the crime that occurred in its vicinity, the so-called "Nijar crime", which took place on July 22, 1928, whose protagonist, Francisca Cañadas , lived in the vicinity all her life. The events of the crime inspired the novel Puñal de claveles (1931) by the writer Carmen de Burgos , as well as the work Bodas de sangre (1931) by Federico García Lorca. On March 23, 2010, a resolution was published in the Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía by which the Cortijo del Fraile was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest with the typology of Historic Site. The trademark «el cortijo del fraile» was registered and protected with industrial property rights at the OEPM under registration numbers N0277626 and M2856874.

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