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🏰 Alanís Castle
A 12th-century Almohad fortress in the Sierra Norte, restored and freely accessible, whose battlements overlook a sea of holm and cork oak pastures.
Alanís, Sevilla🏰 Alcalá de Guadaíra Castle
A great Almohad fortress of eleven towers above the Guadaíra river, one of the largest Islamic military enclosures in Seville province, with free access to its walkways.
Alcalá de Guadaíra, Sevilla🏰 Alcazaba of Antequera
An Islamic walled complex notable for its great keep, crowned by a Christian belfry, with views of the Peña de los Enamorados.
Antequera, Málaga🏰 Alcazaba of Baza
A medieval urban fortress defending the Baza basin, one of the largest walled enclosures of the Nasrid kingdom; it withstood a seven-month siege by the Catholic Monarchs.
Baza, Granada🏰 Alcazaba of Guadix
An 11th-century Muslim fortress built in reddish rammed earth, from whose towers you can see the cave quarter and the badlands of the Granada highland.
Guadix, Granada🏰 Alcazaba of Loja
A Nasrid fortress that was the key to the kingdom of Granada, defended by Ibrahim Ali al-Attar against Castilian troops. It preserves the keep and the Arab quarter.
Loja, Granada🏰 Alcazaba of Málaga
A fortified palace of the Al-Andalus period at the foot of the Gibralfaro hill, built in the 11th century over Phoenician and Roman remains.
Málaga, Málaga🏰 Alcázar of the Christian Monarchs
A 14th-century late medieval fortress-palace, residence of the Catholic Monarchs and site of their first meeting with Columbus. Its water gardens and Roman mosaics stand out.
Córdoba, Córdoba🏰 Almadrabas Castle
A 16th-century walled enclosure in Zahara de los Atunes serving at once as ducal palace, tuna salting factory and coastal defence against piracy.
Barbate y Zahara, Cádiz🏰 Almería Alcazaba
The largest Islamic fortified enclosure on the Iberian Peninsula, built in the 10th century by Abd al-Rahman III on a hill overlooking the city and the sea.
Almería, Almería🏰 Almodóvar del Río Castle
An impressive Arab-origin fortress on a hill by the Guadalquivir, faithfully rebuilt in the early 20th century. It is the best preserved castle in Andalusia.
Almodóvar del Río, Córdoba🏰 Aracena Castle
A 13th-century fortress of the Order of the Hospital raised on the hill that houses the Grotto of Wonders inside it.
Aracena, Huelva🏰 Ayamonte Castle
A former medieval fortress on the hill dominating the mouth of the Guadiana, a strategic watchpoint over the Portuguese border.
Ayamonte, Huelva🏰 Belalcázar Castle
A 15th-century fortress in Los Pedroches with the tallest keep in Spain, 47 metres high, crowned by eight turrets decorated with heraldry.
Belalcázar, Córdoba🏰 Burgalimar Castle
In Baños de la Encina, one of the best preserved 10th-century caliphal castles in Europe, with fourteen rammed-earth towers and an almost intact enclosure.
Bailén, Jaén🏰 Calatrava Castle of Alcaudete
A 13th-century fortress of the Order of Calatrava, restored with an interpretation centre recreating life on the frontier between Castile and the Nasrid kingdom.
Alcaudete, Jaén🏰 Cortegana Castle
A Banda Gallega fortification built in the 13th century to defend the Portuguese border, the setting each summer for famous medieval days.
Aracena, Huelva🏰 Cortegana Castle
A medieval Banda Gallega fortress controlling the route between the Guadalquivir valley and Portuguese Alentejo, setting for famous medieval days each August.
Cortegana, Huelva🗼 Don Fadrique Tower
A defensive tower from 1252 inside the Santa Clara convent grounds, with a Romanesque ground floor and Gothic upper body, witness to the passage between two worlds.
Sevilla, Sevilla🏰 El Vacar Castle
In Espiel, one of the oldest caliphal fortresses in Córdoba, from the 9th century, built in rammed earth on the route linking the Guadalquivir valley with Los Pedroches.
Córdoba, Córdoba🏰 Fátima Castle
Hispano-Muslim ruins on a 150-metre limestone crag in Ubrique, with 360-degree views over the sierra and griffon vulture colonies below.
Ubrique, Cádiz🏰 Gibralfaro Castle
A 14th-century walled enclosure built by Yusuf I to protect the Alcazaba. Its ramparts offer the best panoramic view of Málaga and its bay.
Málaga, Málaga🏰 Guardias Viejas Castle
An 18th-century coastal battery in El Ejido, built to watch the shore against Barbary piracy. It keeps cannons, uniforms and a military museum.
Roquetas de Mar, Almería🏰 Guzmán el Bueno Castle
A caliphal fortress built by Abd al-Rahman III in 960, scene of the sacrifice of Guzmán el Bueno, who chose to lose his son rather than surrender the town.
Tarifa, Cádiz🏰 Gérgal Castle
A very well preserved medieval defensive silhouette, with sturdy cylindrical corner towers, dominating the white village at the foot of Sierra Nevada.
Tabernas, Almería🏰 Jimena de la Frontera Castle
A fortified enclosure of Roman and Al-Andalus origin in Los Alcornocales Park, with an albarrana tower and views as far as the Rock of Gibraltar.
Arcos de la Frontera, Cádiz🏰 La Calahorra Castle
A pioneering fortress of the Spanish Renaissance, with an austere military exterior of cylindrical towers and a palatial interior with a Florentine Carrara marble courtyard.
Guadix, Granada🏰 La Iruela Castle
A Templar fortress perched on a vertical crag in the Sierra de Cazorla, with a keep that seems to grow from the rock itself.
Sierra de Cazorla, Jaén🏰 La Yedra Castle
A Berber-origin bastion reworked by the Christians dominating Cazorla, today a museum of popular arts and customs of the Upper Guadalquivir.
Sierra de Cazorla, Jaén🗼 Malmuerta Tower
A 15th-century albarrana tower joined to the wall by a round arch, ordered by Henry III. It served as a prison for nobles and holds a legend of honour and blood.
Córdoba, Córdoba🧱 Marchena Walls
A medieval defensive system with monumental gateways such as the Carmona Gate, one of the best preserved Almohad walled ensembles in the Seville countryside.
Marchena, Sevilla🏰 Moclín Castle
A key piece of the Nasrid frontier defence network, nicknamed the Shield of Granada for guarding the passes to the kingdom's capital from an impregnable crag.
Montefrío, Granada🏰 Niebla Castle
A fortress surrounded by an imposing two-kilometre Almoravid wall, one of the best preserved in Europe, above the Tinto river.
Niebla, Huelva🏰 Olvera Castle
A 12th-century Nasrid fortress on a rocky hill, part of the Moorish frontier. With the church it forms the most recognisable image of the Sierra de Cádiz.
Olvera, Cádiz🏰 Ribera Castle-Palace
In Bornos, a fortified castle-palace notable for its Italian-inspired Renaissance gardens, with a loggia and marble gallery unique in Andalusia.
Arcos de la Frontera, Cádiz🏰 Sabiote Castle
A 16th-century fortress remodelled by order of Francisco de los Cobos following Italian Renaissance models, with artillery bastions and a palatial courtyard.
Torreperogil, Jaén🏰 San Felipe Battery
A coastal military structure from the time of Charles III in Los Escullos, designed to repel Barbary raids, today one of the most photographed corners of Cabo de Gata.
Níjar, Almería🏰 San Jorge Castle
Seat of the old Spanish Inquisition tribunal, beside the Triana bridge. Its excavated remains today house an interpretation centre on tolerance.
Sevilla, Sevilla🏰 San Juan de los Terreros Castle
An 18th-century coastal battery built in Pulpí to defend against Barbary pirates, with spectacular Mediterranean views.
Mojácar, Almería🏰 San Marcos Castle
A medieval church-fortress built by Alfonso X the Wise over a former mosque, with battlements, towers and a winery inside.
El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz🏝️ Sancti Petri Castle
A 17th-century fortification on an islet off Chiclana, raised where the legendary Phoenician temple of Melqart once stood, visited by Hannibal.
Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz🏰 Santa Catalina Castle
A modern-era star-shaped fortification jutting into the sea beside La Caleta beach. It was built after the Anglo-Dutch raid of 1596.
Cádiz, Cádiz🏰 Santa Catalina Castle of Jaén
A Christian fortress raised by Ferdinand III over the former Islamic stronghold, on a hill dominating the whole city and its sea of olive trees.
Jaén, Jaén🏰 Segura de la Sierra Castle
A fortress of the Order of Santiago at 1,100 metres, birthplace of the poet Jorge Manrique, with a keep dominating a sea of mountains.
Segura de la Sierra, Jaén🏰 Serón Castle
A Nasrid fortress at the top of the village that was the defensive bastion of the Almanzora valley, with a modern viewing tower giving 360-degree views over the sierra.
Albox, Almería🏰 Setenil Castle
An Almohad fortress preserving its keep, with views over the Guadalporcún gorge and the houses wedged beneath the rock.
Setenil de las Bodegas, Cádiz🗼 Shot Tower
A 19th-century industrial tower at Seville's old shot factory: molten lead was dropped 45 metres to form perfect spheres. Today it houses a camera obscura.
Sevilla, Sevilla🗼 Silver Tower
A 13th-century octagonal Almohad tower, the younger sister of the Torre del Oro, part of the same defensive wall system beside the Guadalquivir.
Sevilla, Sevilla🏰 Star Castle of Teba
One of the largest fortresses in Málaga province, where in 1330 the Scot Sir James Douglas died while carrying Robert Bruce's heart to the Holy Land.
Teba, Málaga🗼 Tavira Tower
An 18th-century watchtower named official tower of the port of Cádiz for being the city's highest. It houses the camera obscura projecting Cádiz in real time.
Cádiz, Cádiz🗼 Torrenueva Watchtower
A coastal watchtower of Al-Andalus origin on the Tropical Coast, part of the network that signalled Barbary ships with smoke by day and fire by night.
Motril, Granada🏰 Vélez-Blanco Castle
A 16th-century palatial fortress whose Renaissance courtyard in Macael marble was sold and is today displayed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Vélez-Blanco, Almería🏰 Zahara de la Sierra Castle
A Nasrid keep on a 500-metre crag, whose capture by the Christians in 1481 triggered the final war of Granada. It dominates the reservoir and the whole valley.
Zahara de la Sierra, Cádiz🧱 Úbeda Walls
A medieval perimeter fortification system preserving wall sections, gates and the Santo Cristo tower, open to visitors with views over the Loma.
Úbeda y Baeza, JaénChurch / Cathedral · 48
⛪ Almería Cathedral
A cathedral with the look of a defensive fortress, with battlements and towers, built in the 16th century to withstand Barbary pirate attacks.
Almería, Almería✨ Basilica of San Juan de Dios
An 18th-century Baroque church with overwhelming gold-leaf decoration, frescoes and Churrigueresque altarpieces, the most dazzling in Granada.
Granada, Granada⛪ Basilica of Santa María
A late Gothic church with a Plateresque doorway on the Plaza del Cabildo in Arcos, overlooking the Guadalete gorge, with a richly worked main altarpiece.
Arcos de la Frontera, Cádiz⛪ Charterhouse of Granada
The supreme example of Spanish decorative Baroque. Its sacristy, clad in marble and stucco, is considered one of the peaks of 18th-century European art.
Granada, Granada⛪ Church of El Carmen
A Mudéjar and Baroque church with an unpainted wooden main altarpiece considered a masterpiece of Andalusian Baroque.
Antequera, Málaga⛪ Church of La Encarnación
An 18th-century church of cathedral proportions in Marbella's old town, with a beautiful Rococo stone doorway and a restored Baroque organ.
Marbella, Málaga⛪ Church of La Encarnación
A 16th-century Gothic-Mudéjar church built over a former Nasrid palace, with a fortress-like look and the Catholic Monarchs' coat of arms on its doorway.
Motril, Granada⛪ Church of La Expectación
A 16th-century church in Órgiva with a striking twin-spired bell tower, unique in the Alpujarra, presiding over the main square of the district capital.
La Alpujarra Granadina, Granada⛪ Church of Our Lady of the Olive
A church in Lebrija raised over an Almohad mosque in the time of Alfonso X, mixing Mudéjar, Renaissance and Baroque, with a tower nicknamed the Giraldilla.
Lebrija, Sevilla⛪ Church of San Andrés
A 14th-century Mudéjar church with Baroque additions, home of the Santa Marta brotherhood, on a quiet square in Seville's old town.
Sevilla, Sevilla⛪ Church of San Dionisio
A jewel of Jerez Mudéjar art built in the 15th century after the Castilian reconquest, beside the Atalaya tower on the Plaza de la Asunción.
Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz⛪ Church of San Hipólito
A Gothic collegiate church founded by Alfonso XI in 1343 holding the royal tombs of Ferdinand IV and Alfonso XI himself, on the Gran Capitán boulevard.
Córdoba, Córdoba⛪ Church of San Juan Bautista
A majestic 18th-century church in La Palma del Condado, a benchmark of Seville Baroque, with a tower presiding over the main square.
Niebla, Huelva⛪ Church of San Juan Bautista
A Mudéjar church in Vélez-Málaga reworked in the Baroque, with a bell tower visible across the Axarquía and a coffered timber ceiling.
Vélez-Málaga, Málaga⛪ Church of San Lorenzo
A Gothic-Mudéjar parish founded after the Christian conquest, beside the basilica holding the image of Jesús del Gran Poder, carved by Juan de Mesa in 1620.
Sevilla, Sevilla✨ Church of San Luis de los Franceses
A pinnacle of 18th-century Seville Baroque by Leonardo de Figueroa, with a Greek cross plan and a dazzling frescoed dome.
Sevilla, Sevilla⛪ Church of San Mateo
Considered the cathedral of the Subbética, it houses the Sagrario, a Baroque chapel of polychrome plasterwork that is a summit of Andalusian Rococo.
Lucena, Córdoba⛪ Church of San Miguel
A masterpiece fusing late Isabelline Gothic and Baroque, with a deeply carved doorway and a main altarpiece by Martínez Montañés in the San Miguel quarter of Jerez.
Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz⛪ Church of San Pedro
A 14th-century Gothic-Mudéjar church whose font baptised the painter Diego Velázquez, with a Baroque doorway and timber ceilings in its naves.
Sevilla, Sevilla⛪ Church of Santa Marina
One of the oldest medieval Fernandine churches in Córdoba, from the 13th century, with sturdy Gothic buttresses and a Romanesque-tradition doorway.
Córdoba, Córdoba⛪ Church of Santiago Apóstol
A 16th-century Gothic-Mudéjar church notable for its exceptional wooden roof structure, the best preserved in the province of Granada.
Baza, Granada⛪ Church of Santiago of Iznájar
A Renaissance church attributed to Hernán Ruiz the Younger atop the Barrio de la Villa, overlooking the cliffs above the Iznájar reservoir.
Iznájar, Córdoba✨ Church of the Holy Christ of Health
A circular-plan Jesuit church in the heart of Málaga, with a lavishly decorated dome and a name recalling the plague of 1649.
Málaga, Málaga⛪ Collegiate Church of Cabra
Known as the Mosque of the Subbética for its five naves separated by red Cabra marble columns, built over the town's main mosque.
Cabra, Córdoba⛪ Collegiate Church of Osuna
A 16th-century Plateresque Renaissance church housing the great ducal pantheon of the Girón family and five canvases by José de Ribera.
Osuna, Sevilla⛪ Convent of Las Descalzas
A Baroque Carmelite monastery in Antequera with a superb carved stone façade, a convent museum and a revolving hatch where the nuns still sell their sweets.
Antequera, Málaga⛪ Convent of the Holy Trinity
The former Trinitarian seat in Baeza, with a Classicist doorway and a great two-storey Ionic cloister, today part of the city's Renaissance ensemble.
Úbeda y Baeza, Jaén⛪ Cádiz Cathedral
A monumental 18th-century church combining Baroque and Neoclassical, crowned by a golden dome visible from the sea and with a crypt below ocean level.
Cádiz, Cádiz⛪ Granada Cathedral
A great Renaissance church designed by Diego de Siloé over the old main mosque, beside the Royal Chapel where the Catholic Monarchs rest.
Granada, Granada⛪ Jaén Cathedral
A supreme Renaissance work designed by Andrés de Vandelvira, a model for many cathedrals in the Americas. It holds the relic of the Holy Face.
Jaén, Jaén⛪ La Rábida Monastery
In Palos de la Frontera, an undisputed landmark of Spanish-American history: Columbus stayed here and the Franciscan friars backed his voyage.
Huelva, Huelva⛪ Madre de Dios Convent
A 16th-century Dominican convent beside the Casa de Pilatos, with a Mudéjar church, Renaissance tombs and a hatch where the nuns still sell handmade sweets.
Sevilla, Sevilla⛪ Monastery of San Jerónimo
A Renaissance complex where the Great Captain, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, is buried, with two cloisters and a church of polychrome vaults.
Granada, Granada🕌 Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba
An absolute masterpiece of Al-Andalus art and a World Heritage Site. Its forest of 850 columns and two-tone arches is one of the most recognisable images in the world.
Córdoba, Córdoba⛪ Málaga Cathedral
A Renaissance church popularly known as La Manquita because its south tower was left unfinished: the funds went to help the American colonies.
Málaga, Málaga⛪ Royal Collegiate of Santa María
The first Renaissance church in Andalusia, from the 16th century, with a triumphal-arch façade and a Mudéjar coffered ceiling, above the Roman baths of Antequera.
Antequera, Málaga⛪ Royal Monastery of San Clemente
A cloistered monastery founded in the 13th century by Alfonso X, the oldest in Seville, with a Mudéjar ceiling, frescoes by Valdés Leal and famous convent pastries.
Sevilla, Sevilla⛪ Sacred Chapel of El Salvador
A Renaissance palatial funerary chapel conceived by Diego de Siloé and executed by Vandelvira, the jewel of Úbeda's Plaza Vázquez de Molina.
Úbeda y Baeza, Jaén⛪ Sacromonte Abbey
A 17th-century religious complex built over the Holy Caves where the Lead Books were found, with a museum, college and a privileged view of Granada.
Granada, Granada⛪ San Isidoro del Campo Monastery
A monastery founded in 1301 in Santiponce, famous for its Gothic murals and for being the focus of the first Bible translation into Spanish.
Sevilla, Sevilla⛪ San Jerónimo de Valparaíso Monastery
A 15th-century monastery with an imposing Gothic cloister, raised in the sierra facing Medina Azahara and built with stones taken from the caliphal city.
Córdoba, Córdoba⛪ Sanctuary of Our Lady of La Cinta
A Gothic-Mudéjar chapel above El Conquero where Columbus prayed in thanks for his return from the New World, home of Huelva's patron saint.
Huelva, Huelva⛪ Sanctuary of Our Lady of Los Santos
A Baroque chapel in Alcalá de los Gazules holding a valuable collection of painted votive offerings, a popular record of centuries of fulfilled promises.
Arcos de la Frontera, Cádiz⛪ Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Head
A basilica high in the Sierra Morena, destination of Spain's oldest pilgrimage, documented since 1227, gathering hundreds of thousands each April.
Andújar, Jaén⛪ Sanctuary of the Virgin of the Sierra
A Baroque chapel at 1,217 metres in the Sierras Subbéticas Natural Park, on a geodesic point considered the geographical centre of Andalusia.
Cabra, Córdoba⛪ Santa Clara Monastery of Moguer
A 14th-century Mudéjar monastery where Columbus fulfilled his vow after the first crossing to America, keeping vigil all night on his return in 1493.
Moguer, Huelva⛪ Seville Cathedral and the Giralda
The largest Gothic church in the world, built over the old Almohad mosque whose minaret is today the Giralda. It houses the tomb of Christopher Columbus.
Sevilla, Sevilla⛪ Vega del Mar Early Christian Basilica
In San Pedro Alcántara, ruins of a 4th-century basilica with its immersion baptismal font and a necropolis, one of the best preserved early Christian churches in Spain.
Marbella, MálagaPalace or civil architecture · 40
🏯 Admiral's Palace
A great 16th-century palace in the Albaicín, with a Renaissance doorway in Sierra Elvira stone and a marble-columned courtyard, today the Fine Arts Faculty.
Granada, Granada🏯 Altamira Palace
A 14th-century Mudéjar residence in the old Jewish quarter, with arcaded courtyards and coffered ceilings, today seat of the Andalusian Culture Department.
Sevilla, Sevilla🏛️ Casa Colón of Huelva
The former Gran Hotel Colón, built in 1883 by the British mining company for the fourth centenary of the discovery of America, today a conference centre and symbol of British Huelva.
Huelva, Huelva🏯 Casa Grande of Ayamonte
An 18th-century manor beside the mouth of the Guadiana, with an Andalusian courtyard and Portuguese tilework, reflecting the border trade with Portugal.
Ayamonte, Huelva🏯 Corregidor's House
A 16th-century building on Marbella's Plaza de los Naranjos, with a Gothic-Mudéjar stone façade and Renaissance gallery, historic seat of municipal authority.
Marbella, Málaga🏛️ Counts of Gabia Palace
A 19th-century palatial building with the structure and courtyard typical of the Granada bourgeoisie, today an exhibition hall.
Granada, Granada🏛️ Counts of La Infantada Palace
A 16th-century Granada manor with a great Renaissance central courtyard of Tuscan columns and lowered-arch galleries, today an institutional seat.
Granada, Granada🏯 Counts of Santa Ana Palace
An 18th-century Baroque palace in Lucena, with a monumental doorway and a courtyard staircase under a dome, today an interpretation centre of the Sephardic city.
Lucena, Córdoba🏯 Enríquez Palace
A palace in Baza conceived as an Italian Renaissance villa, with rich polychrome Mudéjar ceilings and murals that make it unique in southeastern Spain.
Baza, Granada📜 General Archive of the Indies
The former Merchants' Exchange built in Herrerian style, today holding 43,000 files with the complete documentary memory of the Spanish empire in America.
Sevilla, Sevilla🏛️ Hospital de Santiago
A late work by Vandelvira known as the Andalusian Escorial, a huge Renaissance complex with a marble courtyard and monumental staircase, today a cultural centre.
Úbeda y Baeza, Jaén🏛️ Hospital of the Five Wounds
A former Renaissance hospital of colossal proportions built in the 16th century outside the walls, today the seat of the Andalusian Parliament.
Sevilla, Sevilla🐚 House of Shells of Baeza
A 16th-century palace with a façade in Isabelline Gothic style imitating scallop shells, beside Baeza's Plaza del Pópulo.
Úbeda y Baeza, Jaén🏯 House of the Arches of Vélez-Blanco
A Renaissance manor at the foot of the castle, with an arched gallery over the valley and heraldic decoration of the Fajardo lineage, lords of Los Vélez.
Vélez-Blanco, Almería🏯 House of the Towers
A Renaissance palace in Úbeda with a Plateresque façade flanked by two imposing towers, one of the richest doorways of the Andalusian Renaissance.
Úbeda y Baeza, Jaén🏯 Ibarburu Estate
A great 17th and 18th-century olive estate in Dos Hermanas, with a counterweight tower, oil mill and chapel, a prime example of Seville agricultural architecture.
Dos Hermanas, Sevilla🏯 Jabalquinto Palace
A residential jewel in Baeza notable for its carved Flamboyant Gothic façade, with a Baroque staircase in its Renaissance courtyard.
Úbeda y Baeza, Jaén📚 La Madraza Palace
A Nasrid-era university founded by Yusuf I in 1349, the first in Al-Andalus, preserving its original oratory with mihrab and muqarnas dome.
Granada, Granada🏯 Las Dueñas Palace
The Seville residence of the House of Alba, built in the 15th century in Gothic-Mudéjar and Renaissance style. The poet Antonio Machado was born here.
Sevilla, Sevilla🏯 Marquis of Benamejí Palace
An impressive 18th-century Baroque palace in Écija, with a red marble doorway and a columned courtyard, today home to the Municipal Historical Museum.
Écija, Sevilla🏯 Marquis of Salvatierra Palace
A Ronda mansion with a singular Baroque façade decorated with four figures of Incan iconography, a reminder of the family's links with colonial Peru.
Ronda, Málaga🏯 Marquis of Tamarón Palace
A 17th-century palace house in Vejer's walled centre, with a columned courtyard, viewing tower and gardens hanging over the La Janda countryside.
Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz🏯 Marquises of Cabra Palace
An 18th-century manor in the historic centre of Almería, with a courtyard of Macael marble columns and a Baroque doorway that survived the 19th-century remodelling.
Almería, Almería🏯 Marquises of La Algaba Palace
A 15th-century palace house in the Feria quarter, today a Mudéjar art interpretation centre, with one of the finest doorways and coffered ceilings in Gothic-Mudéjar Seville.
Sevilla, Sevilla🏯 Mondragón Palace
A historic manor house in Ronda with Mudéjar and Renaissance courtyards, built over a former Nasrid palace overlooking the gorge.
Ronda, Málaga🏛️ Old Courthouse of Plaza Alta
A Neoclassical civil building on the Plaza Alta of Algeciras, the historic administrative centre of the Campo de Gibraltar, today a municipal exhibition space.
Tarifa, Cádiz🏛️ Old Hospital of the Resurrection
A Renaissance charitable complex in Utrera founded in 1505, with a beautiful marble-columned courtyard and a papal bull making it answerable to the Vatican.
Utrera, Sevilla🏯 Orleans-Borbón Palace
A Neo-Mudéjar summer residence commissioned by the Dukes of Montpensier in the 19th century, today Sanlúcar's town hall, with romantic gardens open to the public.
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz🏛️ Palace of Charles V
A Renaissance building with a square plan and a circular courtyard unique in Europe, raised in the heart of the Alhambra by Pedro Machuca.
Granada, Granada🏛️ Palace of the Columns
An 18th-century Neoclassical residence of the Counts of Luque, with an Ionic-columned façade and garden, today Granada's Faculty of Translation.
Granada, Granada🏯 Pemartín Palace
An 18th-century Jerez manor house, today home of the Andalusian Flamenco Documentation Centre, with a 15th-century Mudéjar coffered ceiling.
Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz🏯 Peñaflor Palace
A jewel of 18th-century civil Baroque in Écija, famous for its curved façade with a frescoed running balcony and a Solomonic pink marble doorway.
Écija, Sevilla🏯 Pilate's House
A palace masterfully blending Italian Renaissance and Seville Mudéjar, with the world's largest collection of 16th-century tiles.
Sevilla, Sevilla🌉 Roman Bridge of Córdoba
A civil structure crossing the Guadalquivir for two millennia. For centuries it was the only way over the river; today it is a pedestrian walk facing the Mosque.
Córdoba, Córdoba🏯 Royal Alcázar of Seville
The oldest royal palace complex still in use in Europe, with origins in the 10th century. The Palace of Pedro I is the jewel of Castilian Mudéjar.
Sevilla, Sevilla🚬 Royal Tobacco Factory
An 18th-century stone industrial building, the second largest in Spain after El Escorial, setting of the opera Carmen and today the University rectorate.
Sevilla, Sevilla🏛️ San Telmo Palace
A former navigators' college and ducal residence, today seat of the Andalusian Presidency. Its Churrigueresque Baroque doorway is among the richest in Seville.
Sevilla, Sevilla🏛️ Seville City Hall
A masterpiece of Plateresque design by Diego de Riaño in the 16th century, with a façade carved like stone filigree facing the Plaza de San Francisco.
Sevilla, Sevilla🕌 The Alhambra and Generalife
The most dazzling Nasrid palace complex in the world and Spain's most visited monument. Its courtyards, plasterwork and gardens are the summit of Al-Andalus art.
Granada, Granada🏛️ Vázquez de Molina Palace
A Renaissance residence designed by Vandelvira for Juan Vázquez de Molina, today Úbeda's town hall and a key piece of the World Heritage square.
Úbeda y Baeza, JaénArchaeological Site · 33
🏛️ Acinipo Site
An ancient Roman city on a limestone plateau at Ronda la Vieja, with a magnificent rock-cut theatre and stepped baths, in an open dehesa landscape.
Ronda, Málaga🎨 Ambrosio Cave
In Vélez-Blanco, an important Upper Palaeolithic site with Solutrean parietal art between 15,000 and 22,000 years old.
Vélez-Blanco, Almería🗿 Antequera Dolmens Site
A World Heritage Site. The Menga, Viera and El Romeral dolmens are megalithic structures 5,500 years old, aligned with the Peña de los Enamorados.
Antequera, Málaga🏺 Ategua Archaeological Site
An Ibero-Roman city mentioned by Julius Caesar in the Bellum Hispaniense, with walls, a necropolis and continuous occupation since the Bronze Age.
Córdoba, Córdoba🏛️ Baelo Claudia Archaeological Site
In Tarifa, a spectacular Roman maritime and industrial city beside Bolonia beach, with forum, basilica, theatre and fish-salting factories.
Barbate y Zahara, Cádiz⚱️ Cerro de la Encina Site
A large prehistoric settlement of the Argaric Culture in Monachil, with fortified structures, a central tower and a necropolis of urn burials.
Sierra Nevada, Granada⚱️ Cerro de la Virgen de Orce
A Copper Age settlement in Orce with the oldest known irrigation system in western Europe, in the district where the continent's oldest human remains were found.
Baza, Granada⚱️ Cerro del Villar Site
An 8th-century BC Phoenician settlement at the mouth of the Guadalhorce, key to understanding archaic trade in the western Mediterranean.
Málaga, Málaga🏺 Ciavieja Site
An archaeological area in El Ejido with important mosaics from the Roman city of Murgi, occupied from the Neolithic to medieval times.
Roquetas de Mar, Almería🏺 Cástulo Archaeological Site
The ancient capital of Iberian Oretania and later a great Roman city in Linares, famous for the Mosaic of Loves and its role in the Punic Wars.
Linares, Jaén⚱️ Doña Blanca Site
An exceptional Phoenician settlement with continuous occupation between the 8th and 3rd centuries BC, on what was once the shore of the Bay of Cádiz.
El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz💰 El Carambolo Site
In Camas, where the famous Tartessian goldwork treasure was found in 1958, today kept in the Seville Archaeological Museum.
Sevilla, Sevilla🗿 El Pozuelo Megalithic Necropolis
In Zalamea la Real, a group of a dozen Copper Age dolmens with complex funerary chambers, among the most singular in the southwest of the peninsula.
Minas de Riotinto, Huelva🏛️ El Ruedo Roman Villa
In Almedinilla, a Roman villa with an exceptional set of mosaics and the famous bronze sculpture of the god Hypnos, one of the finest Roman pieces in Spain.
Priego de Córdoba, Córdoba⚱️ El Saltillo Necropolis
A Tartessian necropolis in Carmona with tumuli and grave goods that have given key data on burial rites of the first millennium BC.
Carmona, Sevilla🏛️ Italica Archaeological Site
A Roman city in Santiponce, birthplace of emperors Trajan and Hadrian, famous for its mosaics and an amphitheatre that once held 25,000 spectators.
Sevilla, Sevilla💰 La Amarguilla Site
An archaeological area in Baena where a spectacular hoard of caliphal-era Al-Andalus goldwork was found, today in the local archaeological museum.
Baena, Córdoba⚱️ Los Millares Site
One of the most important Copper Age settlements in western Europe, with a triple line of walls and bastions anticipating modern fortification by two millennia.
Los Millares, Almería⚱️ Marroquíes Bajos Site
A prehistoric macro-village in Jaén with a complex system of concentric water ditches, one of the most singular Neolithic settlements in Europe.
Jaén, Jaén⚱️ Mesa de Fornes Site
A prehistoric settlement on a walled plateau in Fornes, with Argaric Bronze Age phases and later Al-Andalus occupation over the Alhama valley.
Alhama de Granada, Granada🏛️ Munigua Archaeological Site
A Roman sanctuary and city perched on terraces in Villanueva del Río y Minas, with a spectacular terraced temple inspired by Italic models.
Cazalla de la Sierra, Sevilla🗿 Panía Megalithic Necropolis
A group of Copper Age dolmens carved into the clay slopes of the Fardes river, one of the largest megalithic clusters in the southeast of the peninsula.
Guadix, Granada🏺 Puente Tablas Iberian Oppidum
A 6th-century BC walled Iberian city near Jaén, with a unique solar sanctuary where the equinox light illuminates the image of the goddess.
Jaén, Jaén🌉 Roman Aqueduct of Almuñécar
A set of five aqueduct sections from the 1st century AD, among the best preserved in Spain and still in use to irrigate the tropical plain.
Almuñécar, Granada⚱️ Roman Necropolis of Carmona
A funerary complex from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD with over 900 collective tombs carved into the rock, including the monumental Elephant Tomb.
Carmona, Sevilla🎭 Roman Theatre of Cádiz
A 1st-century BC structure discovered by chance in 1980 under the Pópulo quarter. It is one of the oldest and largest Roman theatres in Hispania.
Cádiz, Cádiz🏛️ Río Verde Roman Villa
A 1st-century seaside villa in Marbella famous for its black and white mosaics depicting kitchen utensils, an iconographic motif unique in the Roman world.
Marbella, Málaga⛏️ Santa Ana Roman Quarries
A Roman and caliphal stone extraction site in the Córdoba sierra, source of the ashlars for Medina Azahara.
Córdoba, Córdoba♨️ Santa María Roman Baths
A 1st-century AD bath complex excavated at the foot of the collegiate church, with cold and hot rooms visible from a viewpoint in Antequera's monumental heart.
Antequera, Málaga🏺 Tejada la Vieja Site
A Tartessian walled city in Escacena del Campo, linked to silver metallurgy and Phoenician trade in the 8th century BC.
Niebla, Huelva🐟 Torregarcía Roman Salting Factory
Roman industrial remains devoted to producing garum and fish preserves, beside the Cabo de Gata shore.
Almería, Almería🏺 Torreparedones Site
An important archaeological complex between Baena and Castro del Río, with Iberian remains, a complete Roman forum, market, baths and a pre-indigenous sanctuary.
Baena, Córdoba🏛️ Torrox Roman Site
A coastal complex beside the Torrox lighthouse comprising a villa, baths, necropolis and a salting factory, identified with ancient Caviclum.
Nerja, MálagaHistoric Quarter · 38
🌆 Albaicín Quarter
The old Morisco urban fabric facing the Alhambra hill, a World Heritage Site. Its cármenes, cisterns and viewpoints preserve the Nasrid city.
Granada, Granada🌆 Historic Centre of Aguilar
Notable for its noble churches and the singular octagonal Plaza de San José, unique in Andalusia, in the heart of the Córdoba wine country.
Montilla, Córdoba🌆 Historic Centre of Alájar
A mountain village layout perfectly integrated into the setting of the Peña de Arias Montano, with stone and lime houses in the Sierra de Aracena.
Aracena, Huelva🌆 Historic Centre of Aracena
A white mountain town dominated by its medieval castle and castle church, with the Grotto of Wonders carved beneath the village itself.
Aracena, Huelva🌆 Historic Centre of Archidona
A town famous for its Plaza Ochavada, a jewel of Andalusian Baroque urbanism from 1786, with eight perfect sides and brick and lime façades.
Antequera, Málaga🌆 Historic Centre of Baños de la Encina
A cobbled town centre at the foot of the caliphal castle, with 16th and 17th-century manor houses and perfectly preserved vernacular architecture.
Bailén, Jaén🌆 Historic Centre of Bornos
A Sierra de Cádiz village on the shore of its reservoir, organised around the Ribera castle-palace and its Renaissance garden with an Italian loggia.
Arcos de la Frontera, Cádiz🌆 Historic Centre of Carmona
A fortified city on a hill preserving palaces, Mudéjar churches and the monumental Roman gates of Seville and Córdoba.
Carmona, Sevilla🌆 Historic Centre of Castellar
A medieval fortress containing an entire white village within its walls, still inhabited by a small community, in the heart of Los Alcornocales Park.
Castellar de la Frontera, Cádiz🌆 Historic Centre of Cazalla
A monumental town set in the Sierra Morena, with churches, convents and old aguardiente cellars that made the village's name universally known.
Cazalla de la Sierra, Sevilla🌆 Historic Centre of Cazorla
A traditional urban layout wedged against the sierra and crowned by the Yedra Castle, with the unfinished church of Santa María at its feet.
Sierra de Cazorla, Jaén🌆 Historic Centre of Comares
Known as the balcony of the Axarquía, an eagle's nest at 700 metres with remains of its Al-Andalus fortress and a viewpoint over the whole district to the sea.
Comares, Málaga🌆 Historic Centre of Constantina
A Sierra Norte urban layout with the Jewish Morería quarter at the foot of the castle, among whitewashed houses, aguardiente cellars and stone fountains.
Cazalla de la Sierra, Sevilla🌆 Historic Centre of Córdoba
One of the largest protected urban areas in Europe, a maze of whitewashed alleys, flowering courtyards and the medieval Jewish quarter around the Mosque.
Córdoba, Córdoba🌆 Historic Centre of Freila
A village of cave houses carved into the badlands above the Negratín reservoir, with a Nasrid castle on top and views over the highland landscape.
Freila y el Negratín, Granada🌆 Historic Centre of Frigiliana
One of the best preserved Morisco-origin centres in the Axarquía, with steep streets, painted lintels and ceramic panels telling its history.
Frigiliana, Málaga🌆 Historic Centre of Grazalema
A white village set in its namesake sierra, with traditional gabled mountain architecture, steep streets and a centuries-old blanket-weaving tradition.
Grazalema, Cádiz🌆 Historic Centre of Guadix
A centre preserving its Arab citadel, a great Baroque cathedral and the famous inhabited cave quarter, the largest in Europe.
Guadix, Granada🌆 Historic Centre of La Isleta del Moro
A small fishing village in Cabo de Gata preserving its white vernacular architecture intact, with boats beached on the shore and an islet that once sheltered Barbary pirates.
Isleta del Moro, Almería🌆 Historic Centre of Laujar de Andarax
Capital of the Almería Alpujarra and Boabdil's last residence, known for its Mudéjar heritage, noble fountains and high-altitude wines.
Adra, Almería🌆 Historic Centre of Lucena
It preserves traces of its Jewish past as Eliossana, the Pearl of Sepharad, beside the Moral Castle where Boabdil was imprisoned and an exceptional Hebrew necropolis.
Lucena, Córdoba🌆 Historic Centre of Marchena
A ducal town of the Ponce de León family with the Plaza Ducal at its heart, Almohad walls and religious heritage including works by Zurbarán.
Marchena, Sevilla🌆 Historic Centre of Medina Sidonia
A former ducal capital perched on a hill, preserving visitable Roman sewers, medieval gates, Baroque manor houses and one of the best views of the Cádiz countryside.
Medina Sidonia, Cádiz🌆 Historic Centre of Moguer
A city linked to the discovery of America, home of the caravels' sailors, and birthplace of Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez, who immortalised it in Platero and I.
Moguer, Huelva🌆 Historic Centre of Mojácar
A village of stepped vernacular architecture, white façades and steep streets, whose layout preserves its Al-Andalus urban heritage intact.
Mojácar, Almería🌆 Historic Centre of Niebla
A town encircled by the most complete Almoravid wall in Europe, with two kilometres of ramparts, fifty towers and five monumental gates.
Niebla, Huelva🌆 Historic Centre of Osuna
A monumental ducal city gathering Baroque limestone palaces along Calle San Pedro, considered one of Europe's most beautiful streets for its noble architecture.
Osuna, Sevilla🌆 Historic Centre of Priego
The cradle of Córdoba Baroque, famous for the Barrio de la Villa, a maze of whitewashed alleys and flowerpots, and the monumental King's Fountain.
Priego de Córdoba, Córdoba🌆 Historic Centre of Purullena
Famous for its peculiar badlands landscape combined with rock-cut dwellings, one of the best examples of troglodyte architecture in Europe.
Guadix, Granada🌆 Historic Centre of Ronda
An entire urban landscape suspended over the gorge, where the La Ciudad quarter preserves palaces, Arab baths and walls of Islamic and Renaissance Ronda.
Ronda, Málaga🌆 Historic Centre of Sanlúcar
An urban centre split between the Barrio Alto, with its ducal palaces, and the Barrio Bajo, home to the manzanilla wineries.
Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz🌆 Historic Centre of Santa Fe
A military camp of the Catholic Monarchs turned into a town, with a cross-shaped layout and four monumental gates. The Capitulations with Columbus were signed here in 1492.
Granada, Granada🌆 Historic Centre of Tarifa
A walled centre of narrow whitewashed streets keeping its Islamic medieval layout intact, at the southernmost point of continental Europe.
Tarifa, Cádiz🌆 Historic Centre of Vejer
A walled white village of medieval Arab layout perched on a rocky ridge, with two kilometres of wall and four original gates.
Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz🌆 Historic Centre of Zufre
A mountain village on a cliff above the reservoir, with Almohad walls, a Renaissance town hall and the Los Alamillos promenade, a certified stargazing viewpoint.
Zufre, Huelva🌆 Historic Centre of Zuheros
One of the most picturesque villages in the Subbética, a grid of white streets wedged into limestone rock and crowned by a 9th-century crag castle.
Zuheros, Córdoba🌆 Historic Centre of Écija
Known as the City of Towers for the eleven Baroque belfries on its skyline, and as the Frying Pan of Andalusia for its extreme summers.
Écija, Sevilla🌆 Historic Centres of Úbeda and Baeza
Renaissance centres in Jaén jointly declared World Heritage, with the Plaza Vázquez de Molina as the purest Renaissance civic ensemble in Spain.
Úbeda y Baeza, JaénIndustrial heritage · 22
⚙️ Albolafia Waterwheel
A caliphal-origin waterwheel beside the Roman bridge that lifted Guadalquivir water to the Alcázar gardens. It features on Córdoba's coat of arms.
Córdoba, Córdoba🏗️ Almería English Cable
A giant iron and timber ore loading pier opened in 1904, from the Eiffel school, which loaded iron from the Alquife mines straight onto ships.
Almería, Almería🚠 Alquife Cable Railway
A set of hoppers and mining railway infrastructure that carried iron from the Alquife mines to the loading pier in the port of Almería.
Guadix, Granada⛏️ El Centenillo Mining Village
In Baños de la Encina, a British-style mining village built for lead extraction, with engineers' houses, its own football pitch and hospital.
Bailén, Jaén🏭 Guadalfeo Sugar Factory
In Salobreña, a 19th-century industrial plant for milling sugar cane, the last cane sugar factory to operate in continental Europe.
Salobreña, Granada🏭 Historic Distilleries of Rute
Copper stills from the 19th century still in use, distilling the anisette that made Rute famous, with museums preserving the original machinery and artisan process.
Lucena, Córdoba🌾 La Monsalva Flour Mill
An early 20th-century industrial building in Estepa preserving its historic milling machinery intact, witness to the town's flour and mantecado tradition.
Estepa, Sevilla⛏️ La Reunión Mining Works
In Villanueva del Río y Minas, a large coal mining complex with shafts, iron headframes and a workers' village built with French and English capital.
Cazalla de la Sierra, Sevilla🏭 Linares-La Carolina Mining District
Shafts, smelting chimneys and ore washeries scattered across the sierra, witnesses to the world's largest lead district in the 19th and 20th centuries.
La Carolina, Jaén🏭 Lucainena Calcination Kilns
Six monumental late 19th-century kilns where iron ore was roasted before being sent by rail to the Agua Amarga loading pier.
Lucainena de las Torres, Almería🍾 Monumental Wineries of Jerez
The so-called cathedrals of wine, 19th-century ageing halls listed as industrial heritage. La Concha, with its unsupported iron dome, came from Eiffel's workshop.
Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz🏭 Nuestra Señora del Carmen Sugar Mill
The last cane sugar factory in continental Europe, in Torre del Mar, witness to an industry that shaped the Axarquía for over a thousand years.
Vélez-Málaga, Málaga🐟 Nueva Umbría Almadraba
In Lepe, a former almadraba village and camp on the El Rompido spit, devoted to traditional bluefin tuna fishing since Phoenician times.
Isla Cristina, Huelva🚬 Old Cádiz Tobacco Factory
An 18th-century industrial building linked to the tobacco monopoly from the Indies, today transformed into the city's Convention Centre.
Cádiz, Cádiz🏭 Old Iron Foundry of El Pedroso
Ruins of the first modern iron foundry in Andalusia, built in 1817 in the Sierra Norte, its blast furnaces and halls now swallowed by vegetation.
Cazalla de la Sierra, Sevilla🏭 Old Málaga Tobacco Factory
A 1927 industrial complex in regionalist style, with courtyards, halls and a chimney, today home to museums and cultural spaces after its restoration.
Málaga, Málaga⛏️ Riotinto Cultural Landscape
The most representative mining area in Andalusia, with colossal open-pit mines, the Victorian quarter of Bellavista and the English mining railway.
Minas de Riotinto, Huelva🏭 Royal Artillery Factory
An industrial complex founded in the 16th century under Philip II to cast the empire's bronze cannons, its timber-framed halls today a cultural space.
Sevilla, Sevilla🏭 San Isidro Sugar Factory
A 1901 industrial complex in the Granada plain, witness to the sugar beet cycle that transformed the local economy. Its original machinery survives intact.
Granada, Granada🧂 San Vicente Salt Pans
In San Fernando, a traditional salt works inside the Bay of Cádiz Natural Park, where fleur de sel is still gathered by hand using Phoenician methods.
Cádiz, Cádiz💧 Seven Spouts Fountain
In Cuevas del Almanzora, a monumental 19th-century fountain and trough that supplied the population and livestock of the Almanzora valley for generations.
Mojácar, Almería❄️ Sierra Nevada Snow Wells
Stone structures high in the mountains where ice-men stored ice carried down by mule to Granada to preserve food and make ice cream.
Sierra Nevada, GranadaRock art or historic site · 12
🎨 Aldeaquemada Rock Art
The most important rock art complex in Andalusia, with some twenty Levantine and schematic shelters scattered across Despeñaperros and an interpretation centre with virtual reality.
La Carolina, Jaén🎨 Bat Cave of Albuñol
One of the most exceptional Neolithic sites in western Europe: esparto baskets, sandals and arrows with their original feathers from seven thousand years ago were found here.
Motril, Granada🗿 Carmona Necropolis Engravings
The rock-cut tombs preserve engravings, murals and Roman stuccoes, among them the scenes in the Elephant Tomb and the Tomb of Servilia.
Carmona, Sevilla⛵ Columbus Sites
Protected sites in Huelva linked to the preparation of Columbus's first voyage: La Rábida, Palos de la Frontera and Moguer, from where the caravels sailed in 1492.
Huelva, Huelva🗿 Dolmen of Soto
In Trigueros, one of the best preserved megaliths in the peninsula: a twenty-one-metre corridor with engravings on its orthostats, aligned with the equinox sunrise.
Niebla, Huelva🎨 La Pileta Cave
In Benaoján, one of the great caves of European Palaeolithic art, with paintings up to 30,000 years old still visited by lantern light in small groups.
Benaoján, Málaga⛏️ Riotinto Mines
A landscape and mining installations protected as industrial heritage. Worked for 5,000 years by Tartessians, Romans and the British, they offer a landscape unique in the world.
Minas de Riotinto, Huelva🎨 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Arc
A World Heritage Site. Caves and shelters with Levantine prehistoric art across Almería, Granada and Jaén, including the Cueva de los Letreros with the Indalo.
Vélez-Blanco, Almería🎨 Sierra de Huétor Rock Art
Shelters with schematic paintings across the Granada sierra, part of the Mediterranean Arc declared World Heritage, with human and sun-like figures.
Sierra Nevada, Granada🎨 Tajo de las Figuras
A shelter in Benalup with hundreds of Neolithic paintings, unique in Europe for its abundance of bird figures. The starting point of the first rock art studies in Spain in 1913.
Benalup-Casas Viejas, Cádiz🎨 Treasure Cave Paintings
In Rincón de la Victoria, Europe's only visitable marine cave also holds Palaeolithic paintings, among them a red-outlined doe of great value.
Málaga, Málaga🎨 Zuheros Bat Cave Paintings
A Subbética cave with schematic Neolithic paintings and one of the oldest ceramic assemblages in Andalusia, found alongside remains of the first farmers.
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