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What to see and do in Vélez-Blanco

What to see and do in Vélez-Blanco (Los Vélez, Almería): 11 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 6 Monuments · 2 Nature · 2 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Vélez-Blanco

Vélez-Blanco
Village
Municipality with a uniform historic center dominated by the Castillo de los Fajardo, at 1,070 m of altitude at the northeastern edge of the province. Its territory surrendered peacefully during the Reconquest in 1488.
Castillo de los Fajardo
Monument
Renaissance castle built from 1507 on top of an earlier Arab alcazaba, commissioned by the Marquises of los Vélez. Its Renaissance marble courtyard was sold and moved in the early 20th century to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, where it is preserved.
Cueva de los Letreros
Monument
Rock shelter with Neolithic and Chalcolithic rock art about 25 meters wide across seven panels, including the figure known as 'the Indalo' and the so-called 'Sorcerer'. Declared Monumento Nacional (Spain's heritage designation in force until 1931) in 1924 and included in 1998 on the UNESCO World Heritage list as part of the Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula.
Convento de San Luis (Vélez-Blanco)
Monument
Convent with a Plateresque façade and a Mudéjar tower, built between 1602 and 1615 at the commission of the Marquis Luis Fajardo; it now houses a school of music and dance.
Parque Natural Sierra María-Los Vélez
Nature
Protected area extending across the municipal area of Vélez-Blanco, watered by the Caramel river and the Rambla de Chirivel.
Iglesia de Santiago (Vélez-Blanco)
Monument
16th-century church that for centuries was the hub around which the town's social and commercial life revolved, next to the castle grounds.
Fuente de los Cinco Caños (Vélez-Blanco)
Monument
Historic five-spout fountain that forms part of the traditional water supply network of Vélez-Blanco's town center.
Monumento Natural Cueva de Ambrosio
Nature
Rock shelter 39 m wide and 18 m high with one of the most complete Solutrean sequences in the western Mediterranean (Middle, Upper, and Evolved Solutrean); declared a Natural Monument. It lies at the northern edge of the territory of Vélez-Blanco, bordering María.
Declaración UNESCO del arte rupestre del arco mediterráneo
Historical milestone
The Cueva de los Letreros, declared a Monumento Nacional in 1924, is part of the rock art groupings of the Mediterranean Basin of the Iberian Peninsula inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1998.
Iglesia de la Magdalena (Vélez-Blanco)
Monument
A temple that was a mosque before the Castilian conquest and was converted to Christian worship after the 1488 capitulation.
Capitulación de Vélez-Blanco
Historical milestone
In June 1488 the town surrendered without a fight to Castilian troops, signing capitulations that marked its passage to the Crown of Castile, after having belonged, between 1436 and 1446, to the Crown of Aragon under John II.