Heritage towns in Almería
3 towns in this province.
A hilltop town in Almería with roots stretching back to the Neolithic, its 16th-century church built over a mosque and its coastline once served by a narrow-gauge mining railway.
Vélez-Blanco's Renaissance castle crowns a white limestone crag above one of the remotest valleys of northern Almería — a magnificent building whose marble patio was sold to an American collector in 1904 and now stands, reassembled, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, while the gutted shell above the village is arguably more impressive than the original ever was.
A town in Almería with more than thirty thousand years of human presence, its baroque church facade, stately manor houses, and wide 18th-century streets marking it as one of Andalucía's more quietly ambitious provincial towns.