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Perched above the cave of Las Maravillas in the Sierra de Aracena, this Huelva hill town carries a castle built by the Knights of Santiago, a Gothic church raised on its ruins, and a historic centre declared a site of cultural interest.

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.

Above the Sierra de Aracena in Huelva, a mosque-castle built on Roman and Visigoth foundations still stands on its hill, anchoring a town whose layers of Bronze Age, Islamic, and medieval Christian history survive in stone.

A Templar castle enclosing a bullring, three medieval parish churches rich with Renaissance retablos, and a Celtic oppidum beneath its feet — Fregenal de la Sierra carries 3,000 years of Extremaduran history in one compact Badajoz hill town.

A sierra town in Sevilla where a Carthusian monastery, a parish church that nearly became a cathedral, and the remnants of a medieval castle all sit within a city that once hosted three Spanish kings at once.

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.

A wine-producing town in Huelva, Andalucía, whose old quarter carries layers of Bronze Age, Roman, Moorish, and medieval history, and whose name connects to one of Spain's great noble houses.