ANDALUSIA
Vacations and Sightseeing

Basic information
Official language	Spanish
Capital	Seville
Area	87.268 km²
Population	8,427,000  (2019)
Currency	euro  (EUR)
Web	.es
Code.	ESP
Tel.	+34

Popular destinations SPAIN

Andalusia	Catalonia	Costa blanca
Costa brava	Costa del sol	El hierro
Formentera	Fuerteventura	Gran canaria
Ibiza	La gomera	La palma
Lanzarote	Mallorca	Menorca
	Tenerife

Vacations and Sightseeing

Andalusia Sierra Nevada_{Photo: Antonio Morales García CC 2.0 Generic no changes made}

The Spanish region of Andalusia is known, among other things, as 'the gateway to Europe', and 'bridge between two continents (Europe and Africa)'. It is a very contrasting region with a variety of landscapes. Beaches, valleys, wooded mountain areas, desert and the snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada alternate and give the tourist every opportunity for a varied holiday.

Cordoba Mesquita mosque_{Photo: Jialiang Gao CC 2.5 Unported no changes made}

Many tourists come to the coastal region, especially the Costa del Sol, to enjoy the tropical beaches and the abundant sun in almost all seasons, but also cities such as Cadiz (including Roman theater), the oldest city in Europe, Cordoba (including Mezquita mosque), Granada (including Alhambra) and Seville (including Giralda tower) with their cultural and monumental heritage attract crowds of visitors. Not only in the well-known major tourist cities, but in almost every town or village you will find churches, monasteries, castles, fortresses, palaces and other buildings that are inseparable from the cultural and art history of Andalusiaa be connected.

White village of Zahara de la Sierra, Andalusia _{Photo: Lesamourai in the public domain}

The white villages of Zahara de la Sierra, Olvera, Grazalema and Arcos de la Frontera are also known. The village of Guadix is known for its neighborhood with cave houses, the 'barrio de los cuevas'. In terms of sports, the tourist is well catered for, because hunting, fishing, horse riding, mountain climbing, ballooning, parasailing sailing, windsurfing and diving are just a small selection of the possibilities. It is significant that the Costa del Sol is the area in Europe with the highest density of golf courses and Adalusia as a region has about one hundred 18-hole golf courses.

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Sources

Andalucía
Lonely Planet

Andalusië
Lannoo

Baird, David / Sevilla & Andalusië
Van Reemst

BBC - Country Profiles

CIA - World Factbook

Dahms, Martin / Andalusië
Van Reemst

Hannigan, Des / Andalusië
Kosmos

Kennedy, Jeffrey / Andalusië & Costa del Sol
Van Reemst

O'Bryan, Linda / Andalusië
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Wikipedia

Last updated November 2024
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