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Best Towns to Visit in Granada Province (Not Including the Alpujarras)

Granada province stretches from the coast - Costa Tropical  to the north and borders with Spain's largest Natural Park (which is in the neighbouring province of Jaen) Parque Natural de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas. Cazorla Town and National Park Within its boundaries lie the ski slopes of Sierra Nevada and the highest peak on mainland Spain, Mulhacen. Its diverse, beautiful, wild and yet a garden of paradise where tropical fruits grow. I'm going to share with you a couple of my favourite 'best towns to visit' in Granada Province, which don't include the villages of the Alpujarras - that's another day, another post and another holiday, so huge is Granada! Picturesque Castril Almost as far north as you can get while staying in Granada province is the fabulous town of Castril.  A mountain town with an abundance of water creating a small, yet fast flowing river with tumbling waterfalls. Sometimes you're on a wooden walkway on the cliff face, at others you&#

Monday Morning Photo - Osuna quarry, Game of Thrones Setting

Hardly a normal place to visit when exploring towns but the Osuna quarries or Canteras de Osuna kept cropping up in my research, even before Game of Thrones was filmed there. Typcially, for us, they were closed when we arrived but still quite remarkable.








I haven't yet written about Osuna but have a post on my other blog about where we stayed - the 18th century Baroque Palace - Hotel Palacio Marques de la Gomera

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