Sierra Nevada

Sierra Nevada, natural paradise of Granada and Andalusia

Granada not only offers a unique cultural and monumental heritage. Visit us and your experience will be complete, Granada treasures a natural heritage that will also surprise you. The Alhambra and the Generalife, the Albacín, the Royal Chapel..., the streets of Granada, its people and Sierra Nevada, our natural paradise!

Fundamentally situated in the province of Granada we find the impressive mountainous massif of Sierra Nevada, extending in its most eastern part to the province of Almeria. It rises in the eastern part of the south of the Iberian Peninsula within the Betic mountain ranges in the Penibetic system. It constitutes not only the highest altitude of Andalusia but also of the Iberian Peninsula being the highest mountainous massif, after the Alps, of Western Europe.

The Mulhacén and the Veleta are its peaks that reach their maximum altitudes: 3482 and 3393 meters respectively. Biosphere Reserve and National Park with more than 60 endemic botanical species among which the Estrella de las Nieves stands out. It has an extension of 169,239 hectares protected between the National Park and the Natural Park. From their different faces a great quantity of rivers are born, emphasizing their north face. Rivers of the Guadalquivir basin, among them the Genil, its main tributary.

From the Veleta to Prado Llano extends the ski resort of Sierra Nevada, the highest in Spain and the southernmost in Europe. The resort has 110.4 kilometres of skiable terrain on 131 pistes with a drop of 1,200 metres. The Sierra Nevada resort offers you a wide range of activities not only in winter but also in summer. It is precisely in summer when the paradise of any hiker is Sierra Nevada. You can also go horse riding in the Sierra Nevada, cycling or enjoy the star shower in Borreguiles. In winter you will find from snowshoeing tours, night skiing, sunset from the Veleta, motorcycles, sleds and snow slides, driving track machines...