Costa Tropical

Guide to La Zubia below the Sierra Nevada near Granada: mountain trails, the Cortijuela botanical garden, the 1491 battle site and Alhambra day trips.

Discover Baza in highland Granada: the Iberian Lady of Baza, its former cathedral, Moorish old town and the Sierra de Baza natural park.

Discover Santa Fe in the Vega de Granada — the 1492 siege town where the Capitulations with Columbus were signed, ‘the cradle of hispanicity’.

Discover Albolote on Granada’s Vega: Nasrid origins, the Cubillas reservoir and metro links to Granada near the Alhambra.

Discover Atarfe on Granada’s Vega below Sierra Elvira: the Roman Ilíberis site, the Coliseo arena and historic churches near Granada.

Discover Loja in Granada’s Genil valley: a Moorish Alcazaba, historic churches and the Sierra de Loja between Granada and Málaga.

Inland town on the Granada metro, 5.2 km from the city and no beach: who it suits as a quieter base, how to get around, and what to expect.

Discover Las Gabias on Granada’s Vega: a Roman baptistery, Islamic tower, the province’s first golf course and easy trips to the Alhambra.

Inland town of 25,300 south of Granada with no beach: metro terminus, the Nevada shopping centre, a steel Venus statue and a small ethnographic museum.

What Guadix is really like: Europe’s largest inhabited cave-house district, a grand cathedral, a Moorish alcazaba and dramatic badlands near the Costa Tropical.