Reconnect with the Earth
The landscape is just the beginning
GEOPARK OF GRANADA
Challenging landscapes of naked beauty, forests, spectacular geological formations, paleontological sites of the great Plio-Quaternary fauna, villages where you can stay in cave-houses sheltered from the earth, starry skies, millenary green meadows, a multitude of archaeological sites that can be visited and a living tradition, await you in an unknown Granada that you cannot miss.
In a portion of the planet, located in the eastern part of the province of Granada and surrounded by some of the highest mountains of the Iberian Peninsula, an ancient landlocked river and an ancient lake fed by the waters of that one, left a paleontological testimony of the unique ecosystems of the region.The site, located in the eastern part of the province of Granada and surrounded by some of the highest mountains of the Iberian Peninsula, an ancient landlocked river and an ancient lake fed by its waters, left a testimony of the unique terrestrial ecosystems that developed in Western Europe during the last two and a half million years of the Earth's history, the ecosystems of large extinct mammals of the Quaternary.
It all started when ?
Today's rivers have progressively shaped these landscapes over the last half a million years, forming a wild territory of arid nature - with thousands of square kilometers of badlands. This is the spectacular Geopark of Granada.
A spectacular geological and paleontological heritage
These inhospitable lands of singular beauty safeguard a significant and unique part of the geological heritage of the European continent of the last 5.5 million years. The universal language of rocks will not leave indifferent those who come to learn about its fascinating history through its more than seventy Sites of Geological Interest (SGOs), many of them of international relevance.
Delight yourself with its natural contrasts
If you feel like walking through a forest, climb a high peak, enjoy a sunset contemplating spectacular badlands, pick some mushrooms, be surprised by a deer or by the flight of a bearded vulture, practice canoeing or climbing, or take a relaxing bath in hot springs, you are in the ideal place. Discover the possibilities and define your route.
Explore its rich archeology
If you like to walk through history, walk where cultures walked thousands of years ago, and even intuit what was the life of the first hominids in Europe, get lost in this tunnel of time that is the Geopark of Granada through its many archaeological sites that can be visited.
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Enjoy one of the cleanest skies in Europe
The Geopark of Granada, a place where the earth and the sky merge into an amalgam of sensations, a place to find the cosmos at your fingertips.
Live the immersion in ancestral festivals
Today, when modernity has swept away much of the traditions that gave meaning to life in another time, there are places like the Geopark of Granada, which are true reservoirs of ancestral festivals at your fingertips.
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