Heritage towns in Granada
8 towns in this province.
Guadix is the cave city of Andalucía: an estimated 2,000 families still live in cave houses hollowed from the soft tufa hills below the town's Moorish alcazaba, in a troglodyte neighbourhood that has been continuously inhabited since the Bronze Age and remains fully residential today.
Baza was the capital of an ancient Iberian kingdom whose most famous citizen — the Lady of Baza, a magnificent 4th-century BCE stone figure — now presides over the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, though replicas and the excavated site itself tell a compelling story of the pre-Roman south in the town that produced her.
A Moorish stronghold whose fall in 1482 triggered the final war of the Reconquista, Alhama de Granada still carries its history in the gorge, the Gothic-Renaissance church and the Roman baths that gave the town its name.
An ancient Mediterranean port city in Granada's province, layered with Phoenician, Roman, and Moorish history, where a great fortress once blown up by the British still watches over a coastline of tropical fruit groves and fresh seafood.
A high mountain village in Granada's Alpujarra, once the seat of an ancient Moorish district and the flashpoint of a morisco uprising that shook the Kingdom of Granada.
A Granada hill town whose surrounding landscape holds megalithic tombs, cave dwellings, and prehistoric settlements stretching back to 4500 BC, making it one of Andalucía's most layered archaeological territories.
A Moorish mountain village in the Alpujarras of Granada, whose very name predates the Spanish conquest and carries the traces of a people who held on to their language and faith long after the fall of the Kingdom of Granada.
A Moorish castle town on the Granada coast where a volcanic rock that was once an island now rises above sugar-cane lowlands reclaimed from the sea.