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What to see in Olvera

Gateway to the White Villages Route, with its 12th-century Arab castle and imposing neoclassical church as backdrop. Starting point of the Vía Verde de la Sierra, one of Spain's most beautiful cycling routes.

2 Sports Activities1 Historical Heritage

🏛️ Historical Heritage

🏰 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.

Castle

🏄 Sports Activities

🪂 Paragliding at Algodonales

The Sierra de Líjar is one of Europe's finest free flight sites, with take-offs in every orientation and flying possible more than three hundred days a year.

Free flight Moderate

🚴 Sierra Greenway

Spain's best-rated greenway: 36 flat kilometres between Olvera and Puerto Serrano with thirty lit tunnels, four viaducts and stations turned into hotels.

Cycling route Easy

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