🏛️ Historical Heritage
🏰 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.
Castle🚠 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.
Industrial heritage🌆 Historic Centre of Guadix
A centre preserving its Arab citadel, a great Baroque cathedral and the famous inhabited cave quarter, the largest in Europe.
Historic Quarter🌆 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.
Historic Quarter🏰 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.
Castle🗿 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.
Archaeological Site🌿 Nature
🗿 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.
Nature🏄 Sports Activities
🪂 Balloon Flights over Guadix
Ascents over the badlands and cave houses of the highland, with the snow-capped Sierra Nevada beyond, one of the most photogenic flights in Spain.
Free flight Moderate🧗 Climbing on the Guadix Highland
Routes on the conglomerates and badlands of the highland, with peculiar rock in a landscape of gullies and cave houses unique in Europe.
Climbing Moderate🐴 Horse Riding on the Guadix Highland
Rides through a landscape of badlands and cave houses unique in Europe, with the snow-capped Sierra Nevada beyond for much of the year.
Horse riding Easy🛶 Kayaking at Francisco Abellán Reservoir
A highland reservoir surrounded by red clay badlands, with calm water and a landscape that sees hardly any visitors.
Watersports EasyGuadix on the map
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