Sabanagrande

Sabanagrande sits on the highway south of the capital and keeps a colonial centre of cobbled streets and adobe houses around the church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario, an eighteenth-century building substantial enough to look out of scale with the village. It was a stop on the old route south and has kept the shape that gave it. Rosquillas, the ring-shaped corn and cheese biscuits, are made here and sold along the road, which is why most people stop.

What you actually see

• The church - a large eighteenth-century colonial building on the square.
• The cobbled streets - adobe and tile houses through the old centre.
• The rosquillas - corn and cheese biscuits baked in the village and sold at the roadside.
• The highway setting - the old southern route running past the village.

When to go

November to April is the driest. Weekends bring visitors from the capital stopping for rosquillas. The village is quiet on weekdays.

Honest expectations

The village is small and an hour covers it, so it works as a stop rather than a destination. The highway runs close and the noise carries. There is limited food beyond the biscuits.

Nearby

Ojojona is northwest on a parallel road, and Tegucigalpa is about an hour north.