Beaches, tapas
and fiestas:
the real Andalusia.

The Almería Alpujarra

The green mountains
begin in Alhama

Say "Alpujarra" and most people look towards Granada. Geography tells another story: the comarca also stretches across Almería, and here in Alhama — its eastern gateway — begins its least-known, and perhaps most surprising, side.

Half an hour from the desert and the beaches, the Andarax valley climbs between the Sierra de Gádor and Sierra Nevada towards white villages perched above 900 metres, where vines grow on trellises and springs thread the mountainside. The A-348 links them one by one, from Alhama to Laujar de Andarax, the historic capital: every village a stage on the road.

white villages

22

of comarca

812.5 km²

Bayárcal, the highest

1,255 m

the road that links them

A-348