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Aracena sits above one of Spain's great underground surprises — the Gruta de las Maravillas, a cave of extraordinary stalactites and turquoise pools — and above that stands a ruined Templar castle, while the surrounding sierra is ground zero for the world's finest jamón ibérico de bellota.

A mountain village in Huelva's sierra where a twelve-spout fountain gives birth to a river, pouring two million litres a day through centuries-old irrigation channels into the surrounding orchards.

A small Andalusian town in Huelva where a great Renaissance humanist once retreated to a rocky outcrop above the plain, leaving behind a hermitage, caves, and views that reach across the province.

A village in the hills of Huelva whose Arabic name may mean valley of roses or fertile land, and whose history has passed through Moorish hands, Portuguese and Castilian tug-of-war, and eight centuries of quiet mountain life.

A walled Almohad settlement in the Aljarafe hills west of Seville, where a mosque became a church, the minaret still stands alone in its courtyard, and three medieval parishes mark a town that was once the most populous in the comarca.

A fortified Andalucían hill town taken from Arab rule by the Knights of Santiago in 1241, Guadalcanal still carries its medieval bones in the walls, churches, and monuments strung across its hillside above the Sierra Norte of Sevilla.