Guadix and its Caves

Guadix “The Miltrada City” named after Góngora, where we see its cave houses dug by men inside its clay hills, with whitewashed chimneys emerging from the earth. A neighborhood of artisan, clay, wrought iron, leather, and esparto.

Zone of cave-dwellings, a tradition that dates back to the Romans and the Arabs. The cave built by “los picaeros” uses an ancestral technique. Guadix is ​​the most important cave center in Europe with more than 2,000 inhabited caves.

To visit Guadix, which is located 45 minutes from Granada by car, we have created the following itinerary:

• 4* / 5* and charming hotels
• Hotel pick up in VIP vehicle transfer
• Arrival in Guadix to meet the guide
• Visit “Cathedral of La Encarnación” Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque style.
• Caves including the Cave Museum “La Alcazaba” located in an Arab cave, below the Alcazaba de Guadix, the Cave Museum of Alfarerí de Alcazaba dates back to 1400. With an arabesque well, and two buckets from the same era located below the surface. It was restored and opened as a museum. With 1,500 pieces dating from the year 1600.
• Padre Poveda Lookout Point. In the neighborhood of Las Cuevas de la Ermita Nueva- cave area of ​​Moorish origin, with a panoramic view, in the background you’ll find the historical and monumental complex of Guadix and to the south, the Sierra Nevada.
• The Film Route, a short tour of an itinerary where such famous films like “Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade” were filmed
• We will stop to enjoy a small sweet in the “The Oriental Pastry Shoppe” in the historical center of Guadix founded around 1890, with its famous “tocinillos de cielo” (crème custard)
• The visit may end with an aperitif before returning to one of the places with products from the area
• Return trip to the hotel

Get to know the Guadix area and its Caves.

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