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🌲 Alamillo Park
The largest metropolitan park in Andalusia, eighty hectares of Mediterranean woodland beside the Guadalquivir in Seville, with cycle routes and birdwatching.
Sevilla, Sevilla🌲 Bay of Cádiz Natural Park
A network of marshes, channels, salt pans and beaches within a metropolitan setting, vital for water birds and traditional estuary fishing.
Cádiz, Cádiz🌲 Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park
The first land and sea natural park in Andalusia. A volcanic landscape of cliffs, virgin coves and salt flats full of flamingos, in Europe's most arid corner.
Cabo de Gata, Almería🌲 Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas Natural Park
The largest natural park in Spain and the second largest in Europe. An immense sea of pines with deep valleys, waterfalls and the sources of the Guadalquivir and Segura rivers.
Sierra de Cazorla, Jaén🌲 Despeñaperros Natural Park
A gorge of vertical quartzite walls that serves as the natural gateway to Andalusia from the Meseta, with Iberian sanctuaries on its heights.
La Carolina, Jaén🌲 Doñana National Park
The most important wetland in Europe and refuge of the Iberian lynx and imperial eagle. Scrub, moving dunes, marshes and wild beach coexist in this icon shared with Seville and Cádiz.
Almonte y Doñana, Huelva🌲 La Breña and Barbate Marshes Natural Park
One of the smallest parks in Andalusia, defined by an impressive sea cliff covered in stone pines and by its coastal marshes.
Barbate y Zahara, Cádiz🌲 Los Alcornocales Natural Park
Known as the last jungle in Europe. It holds the largest cork oak forest in the peninsula and deep humid valleys called canutos. Shared with Málaga.
Castellar de la Frontera, Cádiz🌲 Montes de Málaga Natural Park
Considered the green lung of the Costa del Sol capital, made up of dense stone pine woods replanted to stop the historic floods.
Málaga, Málaga🌲 Odiel Marshes Natural Site
A Biosphere Reserve protecting the estuary of the Tinto and Odiel rivers, a key nesting site for the spoonbill and wintering ground for flamingos.
Huelva, Huelva🌲 Sierra María-Los Vélez Natural Park
A surprising landscape of contrasts in northern Almería, where arid limestone peaks coexist with lush Aleppo pine forests and ancient rock paintings.
Vélez-Blanco, Almería🌲 Sierra Mágina Natural Park
A rugged limestone massif holding Jaén's highest peak, Pico Mágina, surrounded by high-altitude olive groves and villages clinging to the slopes.
Jaén, Jaén🌲 Sierra Nevada National Park
The roof of the Iberian Peninsula, with Mulhacén at 3,479 metres. It holds high mountain meadows, glacial lakes and endemic flora unique in Europe. Shared with Almería.
Sierra Nevada, Granada🌲 Sierra Norte de Sevilla Natural Park
A UNESCO Global Geopark in the Sierra Morena. A landscape of holm and cork oaks crossed by clean rivers, with landmarks such as Cerro del Hierro and the Huéznar waterfalls.
Cazalla de la Sierra, Sevilla🌲 Sierra de Andújar Natural Park
The world's main sanctuary for the Iberian lynx. A perfect example of dehesa and Mediterranean scrub in the Sierra Morena, with large granite batholiths.
Andújar, Jaén🌲 Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park
Vast dehesas of holm and cork oaks, chestnut woods and white villages perfectly integrated into the landscape of the Huelva mountains.
Aracena, Huelva🌲 Sierra de Baza Natural Park
A forested bioclimatic island amid the arid basins of northern Granada, with pine and juniper woods and surprisingly rich wildlife.
Baza, Granada🌲 Sierra de Cardeña y Montoro Natural Park
A gently rolling dehesa landscape with spectacular granite batholiths, home to the Iberian wolf and the lynx in northern Córdoba.
Montoro, Córdoba🌲 Sierra de Castril Natural Park
Spectacular rock formations, deep canyons and crystal-clear river sources in the far north-east of Granada.
Baza, Granada🌲 Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park
The rainiest place in the southern half of Spain. It stands out for its limestone landscapes and magnificent pinsapo fir forests. Shared with Málaga.
Grazalema, Cádiz🌲 Sierra de Hornachuelos Natural Park
A very well preserved Mediterranean forest of holm and cork oaks in the Sierra Morena, home to large black vulture colonies. Shared with Seville.
Hornachuelos, Córdoba🌲 Sierra de Huétor Natural Park
A maze of springs, streams and botanical trails right at the gates of the city of Granada.
Granada, Granada🌲 Sierra de las Nieves National Park
The youngest national park in Andalusia. It protects the world's largest pinsapo fir forest in rugged mountain terrain riddled with deep chasms.
Ronda, Málaga🌲 Sierras Subbéticas Natural Park
A UNESCO Global Geopark. It stands out for its impressive karst landforms, limestone ridges and deep canyons such as that of the Bailón river.
Zuheros, Córdoba🌲 Strait Natural Park
A land and sea park protecting the migration corridor for birds and cetaceans between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
Tarifa, Cádiz🌲 Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama Natural Park
White marble ridges forming a natural border between Granada and Málaga, with great hiking routes overlooking the Mediterranean.
Nerja, MálagaBeach · 47
🏖️ Aguadulce Beach
An urban beach of fine sand and calm waters with full services, a marina and a seafront promenade. Ideal for family tourism.
Roquetas de Mar, Almería🏖️ Bolonia Beach
A wild paradise famous for its giant dune over 30 metres high and for the Roman ruins of Baelo Claudia right on the beach.
Barbate y Zahara, Cádiz🏖️ Burriana Beach
Nerja's best-known beach, with golden sand and clean waters and a wide range of leisure and dining. Famous from the series Verano Azul.
Nerja, Málaga🏖️ Cabopino and Artola Beach
A lovely stretch of coast surrounded by the protected Artola Dunes and a small marina, with both family and naturist areas.
Marbella, Málaga🏖️ Cala Chica and Cala Grande
In the Las Negras area, two coves with difficult foot access that guarantee a swim in turquoise waters in absolute peace.
Níjar, Almería🏖️ Cala Encendida
One of the Roche coves, so named because its clay rock walls glow an intense, brilliant red at sunset.
Conil de la Frontera, Cádiz🏖️ Cala de Enmedio
One of the hidden jewels of Cabo de Gata, famous for its brilliant white fossil dunes contrasting with turquoise water. Only reachable on foot or by boat.
Níjar, Almería🏖️ Cala de San Pedro
An oasis famous for its alternative community, the ruins of a 16th-century castle and a freshwater spring. Reached by boat or an hour's walk from Las Negras.
Níjar, Almería🏖️ Cala de los Amarillos
A sheltered, little-visited jewel of Cabo de Gata, named after the golden volcanic colour of the cliffs embracing it. Reached on foot from Los Genoveses.
Níjar, Almería🏖️ Cala del Plomo
A beautiful cove of calm waters flanked by pale stone walls, ideal for sheltering on windy days and for snorkelling among octopus and grouper.
Níjar, Almería🏖️ Calahonda Beach (Motril)
One of the most famous beaches on the Tropical Coast, with coarse dark sand and deep, clean, transparent waters ideal for diving.
Motril, Granada🏖️ Calahonda Beach (Nerja)
A small, picturesque cove right below the Balcón de Europa, surrounded by old fishermen's houses and rocks fallen into the sea.
Nerja, Málaga🏖️ Cantarriján Beach
On the provincial border with Málaga, inside the Maro-Cerro Gordo site, a beautiful sheltered beach with transparent waters much valued by naturists.
Almuñécar, Granada🏖️ Castilla Beach
Kilometres of virgin coast flanked by the Asperillo Natural Monument, a cliff of fossil dunes in orange and yellow tones.
El Rocío, Huelva🏖️ Caños de Meca Beach
A legendary stretch of the Cádiz coast, from family beaches to coves beneath the La Breña cliffs, famous for the freshwater jets springing from the rocks.
Barbate y Zahara, Cádiz🏖️ Cuesta Maneli Beach
Reached along a beautiful boardwalk trail over dunes and pines, it offers a wild, paradisiacal beach far from any town.
El Rocío, Huelva🏖️ El Cristo Beach
In Estepona, a pretty sheltered bay-shaped cove that barely feels the Levante wind, with very calm, shallow waters. A family favourite.
Casares, Málaga🏖️ El Palmar Beach
A kilometres-long fine sand beach popular for its surf scene, its sunsets and its lively beach bars with live music.
Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz🏖️ El Rompido Beach and La Flecha
A unique geological phenomenon: La Flecha is a wild sand spit several kilometres long growing about 30 metres a year, separating the Piedras river from the Atlantic. Reached by boat.
Cartaya, Huelva🏖️ Frailecillo Cove
One of the most intimate Roche coves. Small, with golden sand and flanked by high clay walls that shelter it from the Levante wind.
Conil de la Frontera, Cádiz🏖️ Fuengirola Castle Beach
At the foot of the imposing Sohail Castle, a wide fine-sand beach that also has a designated area where dogs are allowed.
Marbella, Málaga🏖️ Isla Canela Beach
Beside the mouth of the Guadiana on the Portuguese border, an immense beach of shallow waters and dunes, perfect for wind sports such as kitesurfing.
Ayamonte, Huelva🏖️ La Caleta Beach
The most characterful urban beach in Andalusia, set in the La Viña quarter between the castles of Santa Catalina and San Sebastián. Its sunsets are legendary.
Cádiz, Cádiz🏖️ La Herradura Beach
A beautiful natural horseshoe-shaped bay that calms the currents, making it one of the best areas in Andalusia for diving and kayaking.
Almuñécar, Granada🏖️ La Malagueta Beach
Málaga's quintessential urban beach, very wide and easily accessible, full of traditional beach bars serving the famous sardine skewers.
Málaga, Málaga🏖️ La Rijana Beach
A small, beautiful cove sheltered between cliffs at Gualchos-Castell de Ferro, with the remains of a watchtower and a rock that breaks the swell.
Motril, Granada🏖️ Las Marinas-Bolaga Beach
In Vera, an immense beach over a kilometre long with a calm atmosphere and still waters, notable for its landscaped gardens and wide promenade.
Mojácar, Almería🏖️ Los Alemanes Beach
Next to Zahara de los Atunes, a beautiful and exclusive bay sheltered from the winds, with golden sand and crystal-clear water inside a protected area.
Barbate y Zahara, Cádiz🏖️ Los Bateles Beach
An immense urban beach of fine white sand merging with the mouth of the Salado river, combining the closeness of the town with a wide natural setting.
Conil de la Frontera, Cádiz🏖️ Los Enebrales Beach
A kilometres-long wild beach of fine golden sand running parallel to a beautiful juniper and stone pine wood, with wooden boardwalks for access.
Punta Umbría, Huelva🏖️ Los Genoveses Beach
A kilometre of shell-shaped golden sand surrounded by dunes, prickly pears and volcanic hills, with not a single building in sight. Restricted access in summer.
Níjar, Almería🏖️ Los Lances Beach
An immense plain of white sand several kilometres long where the Atlantic shows all its force. A protected natural site and kitesurfing paradise.
Tarifa, Cádiz🏖️ Los Muertos Beach
In Carboneras, a stunning beach of white pebbles and crystalline turquoise water, regularly voted among the best in Spain. Reached down a steep path.
Mojácar, Almería🏖️ Maro Coves
Beneath the Maro cliffs, small wild coves surrounded by subtropical vegetation, with waterfalls falling into the sea and seabeds ideal for snorkelling.
Nerja, Málaga🏖️ Matalascañas Beach
Famous for its fine white sand and the silhouette of the old watchtower toppled into the sea. It borders Doñana National Park directly.
El Rocío, Huelva🏖️ Media Luna Cove
Next to Mónsul, it owes its name to the perfect semicircular shape of its shore, surrounded by dark and beautiful volcanic rock formations.
Níjar, Almería🏖️ Mónsul Beach
In the heart of Cabo de Gata, a virgin dark-sand beach dominated by a great dune and a monumental lava rock. A film location for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Níjar, Almería🏖️ Pino Cove and Barranco de Maro
In the Maro-Cerro Gordo Cliffs natural site, virtually untouched pebble coves with seabeds teeming with underwater life.
Nerja, Málaga🏖️ Real de Zaragoza Beach
One of the quietest and largest beaches in Marbella, with very fine golden sand and shallow waters, perfect for relaxed, safe swimming.
Marbella, Málaga🏖️ Roche Coves
A series of consecutive small coves carved at the foot of reddish cliffs. They offer natural shelter when the Levante wind blows hard.
Conil de la Frontera, Cádiz🏖️ San Cristóbal Beach
Almuñécar's large urban beach, bordered by a busy promenade and crowned at one end by the San Cristóbal rocks.
Almuñécar, Granada🏖️ San Miguel Beach
A beach surrounded by pine woods and dunes offering a spectacular view of the Rompido spit, perfect for long walks in a relaxing setting.
Cartaya, Huelva🏖️ San Sebastián Castle Beach
A rocky area at the foot of the Cádiz fortress which, at low tide, reveals small natural pools ideal for children.
Cádiz, Cádiz🏖️ Torre del Mar Beach
A kilometres-long urban beach awarded for its accessibility and cleanliness, with a lively promenade and traditional beach bars serving espetos.
Vélez-Málaga, Málaga🏖️ Torrenueva Beach
A Tropical Coast beach notable for its clean, deep waters and the imposing Peñón de Jolúcar, a natural viewpoint over the sea.
Motril, Granada🏖️ Trafalgar Lighthouse Beach
A corner steeped in history facing the famous cape. A very wild golden sand beach known for its protected dunes and spectacular sunsets.
Barbate y Zahara, Cádiz🏖️ Valdevaqueros Beach
Considered the European mecca of wind sports. It stands out for its immense active sand dune and its young, laid-back atmosphere.
Tarifa, CádizRiver, lake or reservoir · 34
🏞️ Almanzora River
The historic backbone of the north of the province, known for giving life to the marble district and for its great torrential floods after autumn rains.
Albox, Almería🏞️ Andarax River
It rises in Sierra Nevada and crosses the province to its mouth beside the capital. Its upper basin is vital for irrigating the Almería Alpujarra and its historic vineyards.
Almería, Almería💧 Bornos Reservoir
On the Guadalete river, it has a protected natural area along its banks and is a benchmark spot for birdwatching and sailing sports.
Arcos de la Frontera, Cádiz🥾 Borosa River
A tributary of the Guadalquivir in Cazorla, famous for shaping one of the most beautiful river routes in Spain through the Cerrada de Elías, with walkways over turquoise water.
Sierra de Cazorla, Jaén🏞️ Castril River
It rises in the natural park of the same name and runs boxed in between vertical limestone walls, followed by a spectacular wooden walkway hanging over the water.
Baza, Granada💧 Chanza Reservoir
A large dam on the Spanish-Portuguese border guaranteeing water both for urban consumption and for the berry crops of the Huelva coast.
Ayamonte, Huelva🥾 Chillar River
A limestone watercourse running through the Cahorros, marble gorges so narrow you can touch both walls while walking ankle-deep in the water.
Nerja, Málaga💧 Cuevas del Almanzora Reservoir
The largest hydraulic engineering work in Almería, famous for its artificial rowing channel used in international competitions and its arid shoreline landscape.
Mojácar, Almería💧 El Pintado Reservoir
The largest reservoir in Seville province, in the Sierra Norte near Cazalla de la Sierra, surrounded by dehesas and popular with anglers and campers.
Cazalla de la Sierra, Sevilla🦩 Fuente de Piedra Lagoon
The largest lagoon in Andalusia, a brackish wetland of international importance hosting the largest breeding colony of pink flamingos in the Iberian Peninsula.
Antequera, Málaga🏞️ Genil River
The main tributary of the Guadalquivir. It rises in the high peaks of Sierra Nevada, crosses the city of Granada and continues towards the Córdoba countryside.
Granada, Granada💧 Guadalcacín Reservoir
The largest reservoir in Cádiz province and one of the biggest in Andalusia, essential for water supply and irrigation across the Jerez district.
Arcos de la Frontera, Cádiz🏞️ Guadalete River
The great river of Cádiz. It rises in the Sierra de Grazalema and winds through the Jerez countryside to its mouth at El Puerto de Santa María, among salt pans and estuaries.
El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz🏞️ Guadalhorce River
The longest river in Málaga. It carves the spectacular Gaitanes gorge, home of the Caminito del Rey, and its mouth is a protected natural site.
Málaga, Málaga💧 Guadalhorce-Guadalteba Reservoirs
A complex of three large reservoirs around Ardales forming an idyllic landscape of turquoise waters surrounded by pine woods, with inland beaches and viewpoints.
Ardales y el Caminito del Rey, Málaga🏞️ Guadalquivir River in Córdoba
It crosses the province from east to west, dividing it in two, and bathes the capital with the historic image of the Arab mills and the Roman bridge.
Córdoba, Córdoba🚢 Guadalquivir River in Seville
The only navigable river in Spain. It makes Seville the country's only inland seaport and feeds the Doñana marshes before reaching the sea at Sanlúcar.
Sevilla, Sevilla🌿 Guadiamar River
The last great right-bank tributary of the Guadalquivir, now protected as a Green Corridor after recovering from the 1998 Aznalcóllar mining disaster.
Sevilla, Sevilla🏞️ Guadiana River
It forms the natural border with Portugal in its final stretch, offering a navigable estuary of great scenic beauty among marshes and tidal creeks.
Ayamonte, Huelva💧 Iznájar Reservoir
Known as the Lake of Andalusia, it is the largest reservoir in the region. Shared with Granada and Málaga, it has inland beaches suitable for swimming.
Iznájar, Córdoba💧 La Breña II Reservoir
In Almodóvar del Río, it stands out for its colossal concrete dam, one of the largest in Spain, and as a major centre for water sports and recreation.
Almodóvar del Río, Córdoba💧 La Minilla and El Gergal Reservoirs
A chain of dams on the Rivera de Huelva shaping the landscape of the Seville Sierra Norte and guaranteeing drinking water for the capital.
Sevilla, Sevilla🦆 Laguna Grande of Baeza
The most important wetland in Jaén province, surrounded by an immense sea of olive trees and declared a Natural Site for its value to migratory bird colonies.
Úbeda y Baeza, Jaén💧 Los Bermejales Reservoir
On the Cacín river, it stands out for its emerald green waters and inland beaches surrounded by pines, very popular for active tourism and camping.
Alhama de Granada, Granada🦆 Medina Lagoon
The largest lagoon in the province and the second in Andalusia, a key protected site for wintering water birds such as the crested coot and the white-headed duck.
Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz💧 Negratín Reservoir
The third largest in Andalusia, set in an impressive badlands landscape resembling a desert canyon. It has freshwater beaches and bathing areas.
Baza, Granada🦆 Padul Lagoon
One of the most important wetlands in southern Spain, famous for its peat bogs where prehistoric mammoth and other glacial megafauna remains have been found.
Granada, Granada🏖️ Rumblar Reservoir
In Baños de la Encina, surrounded by Mediterranean woodland, popular for its inland beach known as El Tamujoso, with a bathing area and picnic spots.
Bailén, Jaén❄️ Sierra Nevada Glacial Lakes
A group of small glacial lakes above 2,500 metres, known locally as tutos. The Caldera and Duende lagoons are the most remarkable.
Sierra Nevada, Granada🏞️ Source of the Guadalquivir
At the Cañada de las Fuentes, inside the Sierra de Cazorla, rises the river axis of all Andalusia, the only major navigable river in Spain.
Quesada, Jaén🔴 Tinto River
World famous for the intense red of its acidic waters, caused by the weathering of sulphide minerals. It has been studied by NASA as an analogue for Mars.
Minas de Riotinto, Huelva💧 Tranco de Beas Reservoir
In the heart of the Cazorla Natural Park, one of the most beautiful inland scenes in Spain. It offers solar boat trips and bathing areas among pine woods.
Sierra de Cazorla, Jaén🏖️ Valdearenas Inland Beach
The most famous inland beach in Andalusia, on the shore of the Iznájar reservoir. Sand, a beach bar and calm waters surrounded by olive groves and pine woods.
Iznájar, Córdoba🦆 Zóñar Lagoon
In Aguilar de la Frontera, the deepest permanent lagoon in Andalusia. Its groundwater-fed waters are a vital refuge for the white-headed duck.
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🦅 Birds of Cuevas Reservoir
A waterbird refuge in the arid Almería landscape, with cormorants, herons and wintering ducks in an almost desert setting that sees few visitors.
Mojácar, Almería🦅 Birds of Laguna Grande
An oasis surrounded by the world's largest sea of olive trees, an essential stopover for migratory birds and a breeding area for grebes, coots and herons.
Úbeda y Baeza, Jaén🦅 Birds of Padul Lagoon
Peat bogs at the foot of Sierra Nevada where thousands of migratory birds stop, with reedbeds sheltering threatened species and observation boardwalks.
Granada, Granada🦅 Birds of Zóñar Lagoon
Here the white-headed duck was saved when only twenty-two individuals remained in all of Spain. Today the hide allows you to see it alongside grebes and pochards.
Montilla, Córdoba🦅 Cabo de Gata Salt Pans
A wetland in the middle of the desert where thousands of flamingos winter, with hides beside the road and over a hundred species recorded each year.
Cabo de Gata, Almería🦅 Cazorla Mountains
Territory of the bearded vulture reintroduced after decades of extinction, alongside griffon vultures, golden eagles and Spain's largest pine forest.
Sierra de Cazorla, Jaén🦅 Dehesa de Abajo
Europe's largest white stork colony, with over five hundred nests on centuries-old wild olives, plus flamingos and ducks on its lagoon.
Sevilla, Sevilla🦅 Flamingos of Fuente de Piedra
The largest breeding colony of greater flamingo in the peninsula: up to twenty thousand pairs in rainy years. The José Antonio Valverde centre has hides and telescopes.
Antequera, Málaga🦅 Grazalema Vulture Colonies
One of Europe's largest griffon vulture colonies, visible from the Puerto de las Palomas and the Garganta Verde, where they glide at viewpoint level.
Grazalema, Cádiz📍 High Mountain Birds of Sierra Nevada
Territory of the alpine accentor, black wheatear and golden eagle, with endemic species adapted to over three thousand metres of altitude.
Sierra Nevada, Granada🦅 La Lantejuela Wetlands
Steppe lagoons in the countryside where flamingos, stilts and avocets breed, and where bustards and little bustards can still be seen in surrounding cereal fields.
Marchena, Sevilla🦅 La Rocina and Acebrón
The gateway to Doñana with boardwalks and hides over the stream, where you can see spoonbills, purple herons and the Spanish imperial eagle in flight.
El Rocío, Huelva📍 Maro Cliffs and Seabirds
A site where peregrine falcons and crag martins nest on the vertical walls, with shearwaters and gannets passing offshore during migration.
Almuñécar, Granada🦅 Odiel Marshes
A Biosphere Reserve with Europe's largest breeding colony of spoonbills and flamingos year-round, ten minutes from central Huelva.
Huelva, Huelva🦅 Piedras River Marshes
A protected estuary behind the El Rompido spit, with waders on migration, wintering ospreys and terns breeding on the sandbanks.
Cartaya, Huelva🦅 Punta Entinas-Sabinar
Salt pans and lagoons among greenhouses, with flamingos, Kentish plovers and one of the best wintering areas for waders in the southeast of the peninsula.
Roquetas de Mar, Almería🦅 Sierra de Andújar
A sanctuary for the Spanish imperial eagle, black vulture and lynx, with viewpoints where photographers from all over Europe gather in winter.
Andújar, Jaén🦅 Sierra de Hornachuelos
One of the world's largest concentrations of black vulture, with over two hundred pairs nesting in the cork oak woods of the Sierra Morena.
Hornachuelos, Córdoba🦅 Strait Viewpoint
Europe's finest spot to watch migration: each autumn and spring hundreds of thousands of storks, kites and raptors cross the Strait towards Africa.
Tarifa, Cádiz📍 Vulture Colonies of the Gaitanes Gorge
A griffon vulture colony on the vertical canyon walls, visible from the Caminito del Rey walkways at the level of the nests themselves.
Ardales y el Caminito del Rey, Málaga🦅 White-headed Ducks of Medina Lagoon
A key refuge for the white-headed duck and crested coot, two of Europe's most threatened waterbirds, with a hide and a perimeter trail.
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🌰 Alpujarra Chestnut Woods
Around villages such as Pórtugos or Mecina Bombarón stretch thousand-year-old chestnut woods planted in medieval times, whose twisted trunks create fairy-tale landscapes.
La Alpujarra Granadina, Granada🟠 Asperillo Cliff
A wall of fossil dunes over thirty metres high stretching along the sea, in ochre, orange and yellow tones unique on the Atlantic coast.
El Rocío, Huelva🦇 Bat Cave of Zuheros
On the mountain top of Zuheros, a prehistoric cave famous for its stalactite formations and for important Neolithic archaeological deposits.
Zuheros, Córdoba🦅 Buitreras Gorge
A Natural Monument in Cortes de la Frontera. A canyon so narrow it measures barely a metre at points and over a hundred deep. A cult site for canyoning and griffon vultures.
Grazalema, Cádiz🍂 Cardeña and Montoro Gall Oak Wood
Magnificent woods of gall oak, a deciduous Mediterranean oak that turns northern Córdoba yellow as winter arrives.
Montoro, Córdoba🪵 Cerrada de Elías and Cerrada de Utrero
Deep narrows of the Borosa and Guadalquivir rivers in Cazorla, where water flows between towering moss-covered walls, followed by wooden walkways anchored to the rock.
Sierra de Cazorla, Jaén⛏️ Cerro del Hierro
In San Nicolás del Puerto, an ancient Cambrian reef turned into an iron mine by the Romans. Mining and erosion have left a landscape of spires, chasms and reddish tunnels.
Cazalla de la Sierra, Sevilla🍁 Copper Forest of the Genal Valley
An immense stand of chestnut trees covering the valley slopes. Every November the foliage turns the whole district ochre, red and gold in an unrepeatable spectacle.
Ronda, Málaga🪨 El Torcal de Antequera
A World Heritage Site and one of the most spectacular karst landscapes in Europe, where erosion has shaped the limestone into screws, hats and labyrinthine alleys.
Antequera, Málaga🧗 Gaitanes Gorge
The most famous canyon in Andalusia, with vertical walls over 300 metres high. It is crossed by the hanging walkways of the Caminito del Rey, almost a hundred metres above the river.
Ardales y el Caminito del Rey, Málaga💎 Grotto of Wonders
One of the most beautiful show caves in the world and a pioneer in Spain, opened in 1914. Famous for its stalactites and huge turquoise underground lakes.
Aracena, Huelva🦅 Jándula Canyon
A deep, spectacular rocky cleft carved by the Jándula river in the Sierra de Andújar Natural Park, surrounded by wild, intact Mediterranean forest.
Andújar, Jaén🌳 La Peana Holm Oak
In Serón, a Natural Monument considered the oldest living being in Andalusia: a monumental holm oak with a giant crown and an estimated age of over 1,300 years.
Albox, Almería🌉 Los Cahorros de Monachil
A karst gorge at the gates of Sierra Nevada, famous for narrow stone passages where you must crouch and for its vertiginous wooden suspension bridges.
Granada, Granada💧 Los Canales de Padules
A beautiful gorge where the Andarax river is boxed in between the slopes of Sierra Nevada and Sierra de Gádor, creating natural pools, waterfalls and intimate stone passages.
Almería, Almería🗿 Marchal and Purullena Badlands
Declared a Natural Monument, they form a clay landscape of angular shapes and fairy chimneys where locals carved their famous cave houses.
Guadix, Granada🕳️ Nerja Cave
Known as the Cathedral of the Palaeolithic, it holds the world's largest natural column, 32 metres tall, and cave paintings over 40,000 years old.
Nerja, Málaga📐 Nigüelas Fault
A Natural Monument showing an impressive wall of rock smoothed and polished by the friction of tectonic plates. One of the best visible fault examples in Europe.
Granada, Granada🗿 Peña de Arias Montano
In Alájar, an imposing limestone natural monument rising above the village and the sierra. It was the spiritual refuge of the scholar Benito Arias Montano in the 16th century.
Aracena, Huelva💠 Pulpí Geode
In the Mina Rica, it is the largest giant geode in the world open to visitors: a space lined with transparent gypsum crystals of extraordinary size and purity.
Mojácar, Almería🪨 Salobreña Rock
A great rocky promontory once surrounded by the sea, today dividing the local beaches, with the whitewashed old town crowning the hill behind.
Salobreña, Granada🌳 Sierra Norte Dehesas
Man-made landscapes where holm and cork oak woods were thinned for Iberian pig grazing, forming kilometres of the most balanced ecosystem in the south.
Cazalla de la Sierra, Sevilla🌲 Sierra de las Nieves Pinsapo Forest
In the heart of the National Park, the largest expanse of pinsapo firs on the planet, over 3,000 hectares with centuries-old specimens on high limestone terrain.
Ronda, Málaga✨ Sorbas Gypsum Karst
A maze of more than a thousand caves carved by water in gypsum rock, with galleries that sparkle with crystalline flashes in the light.
Tabernas, Almería🏜️ Tabernas Desert
Considered the only true desert in Europe. Its landscape of badlands, gullies and arid plains has been the natural set for hundreds of spaghetti westerns.
Tabernas, Almería🌿 The Canutos of Los Alcornocales
In the narrow valleys of this Cádiz range, true cloud forests surviving from the Tertiary era, with giant ferns and laurels in permanent semi-darkness.
Castellar de la Frontera, Cádiz🌲 The Grazalema Pinsapo Forest
The pinsapo is a prehistoric fir that survived the ice ages. This is the best preserved pinsapo forest in the world, on a shaded slope rainier than many northern regions.
Grazalema, Cádiz🦅 The Green Gorge
A spectacular canyon carved by the Bocaleones stream in Grazalema. Its walls reach 400 metres and barely let light in, sheltering the monumental Garganta cave-chapel.
Zahara de la Sierra, Cádiz🌉 The Tajo of Ronda
An impressive gorge some hundred metres deep carved by the Guadalevín river, splitting the city in two and spanned by the monumental Puente Nuevo.
Ronda, Málaga🏝️ Trafalgar Tombolo
A rocky islet joined to the mainland by a double tongue of sand and dunes created by the tides. It is the historic cape of the famous 1805 naval battle.
Barbate y Zahara, Cádiz🌊 Treasure Cave
In Rincón de la Victoria, one of only three marine-origin show caves in the world and the only one in Europe. The sea shaped its galleries before the coast rose.
Málaga, Málaga💦 Tíscar Water Cave
In Quesada, also known as the Grotto of the Virgin. A deep, narrow gorge carved by the Tíscar river where water leaps in noisy waterfalls among moss.
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