Laujar de Andarax is an attractive, quiet village in Las Alpujarras. There is an 18th Century Town Hall with three tiers of arches and a...

Los Millares is an important archaeological site which was inhabited during the third millennium BC. This was the period before the Bronze Age. It appears...

Texas Hollywood is a theme park and a film studio where many Westerns are still filmed. This rocky desert like area easily represents America`s Wild...

Oaseys was formerly known as Mini Hollywood and it is the oldest of the Western theme parks in this desert like area. It was created...

Western Leone is a theme park originally created for the making of the film Once Upon a Time in the West. Other films have been...

This dramatic castle stands on a hill above the village of La Calahorra. Rodrigo de Mendoza visited Italy and on his return built this castle....

Valor is an attractive village in the Alpujarra and it has a 16th Century Mudejar church with an artesonado ceiling and a Baroque image of...

Baza is a market town with a long history and the highlight of the museum is a copy of the Dama de Baza, a human...

Yegen is a village in the Las Alpujarras where the Englsh writer Gerald Brenan lived in the 1920s. He wrote the book South from Granada...

The Alcazaba was founded in AD 955 by Abd al Rhahman 111 to defend the coast. Subsequently it was enlarged into a Moorish palace and...

The Plaza de la Constitucion is an attractive square where the 19th Century town hall stands. There are trees and a white monument called the...

The Aljibes de Jayron are cisterns from Moorish times. Almeria was established in the mid 10th Century when the Alcazaba was built. The city was...

Almeria Cathedral was built in 1524 at a time when Berber pirates often raided the city. With its many towers that once contained cannons, the...

The Almeria Museum is an attractive, modern museum with artefacts from all over the province. The displays cover prehistory as well as more recent times....

The Alcazaba in Guadix was built by the Moors in the 10th Century on Roman foundations. The Islamic palace had a military garrison guarding its...

Guadix is known for its cave dwellings which have been dug out of the soft earth in the hillsides. These dwellings, with their quaint chimneys,...

Guadix Cathedral took over two hundred years to build and this impressive, sandstone building reflects several periods from the 16th to the 18th Century. The...

The Parish Church of Santa Maria in Nijar was built in the Mudejar style in the 16th Century. Its impressive defensive tower was built first...

Adra is an old coastal town which was once protected by a castle, walls and watchtowers guarding the beach. There is a museum where you...

Gorafe is a remarkable village surrounded by a spectacular landscape. Over one hundred late Neolithic tombs in the area have been found and they are...