The town of Adra has got it’s own hymn, registered in the official registry (Registro Andaluz de Entidades Locales). Copyright reserved, only to be sung on official occasions, etc.
It’s called “Canto a Adra” (Song to Adra) and was originally a poem by a fellow called José Martínez Alvarez de Sotomayor penned in 1934 for a poetry competition at the time. (It won). The local corporation were so impressed by this lad that shortly afterwards they named him an honoury son of the village (he was from Cuevas del Almanzora).
It was originally sung with a pasodoble backing track. Here’s the words:
ADRA linda gaviota
que blanqueó su nidar
la espuma de una ola rota
y más que asentada, flota
junto a la orilla del mar.
ADRA, la andaluza eres
de tan óptimos manjares
que en la sed de los quehaceres
da de beber a sus mujeres
azúcar de sus cañares.
Que siempre fuiste codicia
de la invasión extranjera
desde que la gran Fenicia
sintió la dulce caricia
de tu eterna primavera.
Jamás se vieron mermadas
tus fuentes de regadío;
que al pié de Sierra Nevada
con el llanto de Granada
se va formando tu río.
Dios puso en ti sus amores
Y te dio gracias tan finas
Y tan extraños favores
que nunca acaban tus flores
ni se van tus golondrinas
or see a 


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