The scent of orange blossom, the swish of a flamenco dress, the glimpse of a white village perched atop a crag: memories of Andalucía linger. Check out these fun things to do in Andalucia.
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Andalucia's Top 16
1. Soak up the kitesurfing, wind-surfing and beach-lazing scenes at Tarifa
2. Travel through 3000 years of history as you wander Cádiz’ sea-encircled old city
3. Take a trip from Picasso to modern graffiti in Málaga, Spain’s ever-evolving art city extraordinaire
4. Delve into a surreal subterranean world of stalagmites and stalactites beneath the tourist bustle of Nerja
5. Follow a narrow 100m-high path through the jaws of El Chorro gorge
6. Hike from one enchanted village to the next and taste creative regional cooking in Sierra de Aracena
7. Retrace the historic steps of Christopher Columbus in La Rábida, Palos de la Frontera and Moguer
8. Patrol Almería’s formidable hilltop fort, once one of the most powerful in Moorish Spain
9. Go underground in the otherworldly cave complex of Cuevas de Sorbas
10. Discover the marvellous Mezquita and much more in this fascinatingly historic but also buzzing contemporary city
11. Take in Zuheros, a charming white village with a craggy canyon backdrop, good walks and a perfectly perched castle
12. Investigate the tangle of stone lanes lined with beautiful Renaissance buildings in Baeza
13. Bask in the majesty of Spain’s most spectacular monument, the Alhambra
14. Snap those sunset shots of the Alhambra from a viewing balcony in Granada’s atmospheric Albayzín district
15. Hike through the villages and canyons of the Sierra Nevada’s southern slopes
16. Revel in the astonishing Mudéjar decor of Seville’s royal palace complex at Real Alcázar
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