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Andalusia or Andalucía?

The autonomous region of Andalusia (Andalucía in Spanish) is in the southern part of Spain. It spans from Atlantic coast in the west to the sheltered coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the east and from Málaga's Costa del Sol to the borders of Castilla – La Mancha the famous flat lands and Don Quixote windmill country.  With an average of 300 plus days of sunshine a year the coastal area is an all year round destination. Not so in the inland provinces of Cordoba, Jaen and Sevilla which ha ve baking hot summers that can reach +40c and cold winters which can be 0c or less overnight. The Mezquita, Córdoba Andalusia is divided into eight provinces, each with a provincial city of the same name. Some of them are far more famous than others: Almería , Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Sevilla. The three land-locked provinces are Córdoba, Jaé n and Sevilla, the rest are coastal. Each province and city is full of culture, history, traditions, fabulous monuments and cre...
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UNESCO Sites in Andalucia - World Heritage Sites to Visit

Spain has a whopping 44 sites listed on the UNESCO World Heritage list and a further 24 on the tentative list.

The Mezquita part of the Historic City Centre of Cordoba


Andalucia has five cultural and one natural site on the list:

  • The Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzin, Granada
  • The Cathedral, Alcazar and Archivo de Indias, Seville
  • The Historic City Centre of Cordoba
  • The Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Ubeda and Baeza
  • Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin, examples in Almeria, Granada and Jaen provinces
  • The natural World Heritage Site is Doñana National Park, Huelva


I thought myself something of a country girl but find it´s only the natural sites on the list, not the urban sites and I´m including the rock art caves, that I haven´t visited yet.




On the tentative waiting list are:

Jaen Cathedral

  • Dolmen Sites, Antequera
  • Roman Ways, itineraries of the Roman Empire, part of which are in Andalucia
  • Mining Historical Heritage, part of which is in Huelva, Andalucia
  • Jaén Cathedral, to be included in the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Ubeda and Baeza

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