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What to see in Tabernas

Europe's only continental desert, filming location for over 600 Spaghetti Western films. Sergio Leone filmed The Good, the Bad and the Ugly here. Martian landscapes of ravines and badlands unique in the world.

2 Nature1 Historical Heritage1 Sports Activities

🏛️ Historical Heritage

🏰 Gérgal Castle

A very well preserved medieval defensive silhouette, with sturdy cylindrical corner towers, dominating the white village at the foot of Sierra Nevada.

Castle

🌿 Nature

✨ 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.

Nature

🏜️ 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.

Nature

🏄 Sports Activities

🥾 Río Aguas and Mills Trail

A trail in Sorbas descending to Almería's only permanent-flow river, among gypsum badlands, old flour mills and oleanders.

Hiking trail Moderate

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