Albarracín

Reddish houses of plaster and timber cling to a rocky spur almost ringed by the Guadalaviar river, their eaves nearly touching over steep, narrow lanes. Named after the Berber Banu Razin, who ruled a taifa kingdom here, the town later stayed an independent lordship until Aragon took it over in 1300. Walls climb to the Torre del Andador, and the sandstone boulders around town draw climbers.

Highlights

• The walls climbing to the Torre del Andador, begun in the 11th century
• The cathedral of El Salvador, rebuilt in Renaissance style in the 1530s
• Houses hanging over the river gorge
• Prehistoric rock paintings in the Pinares de Rodeno pine woods (ES)
• Bouldering on the red sandstone around the town

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Albarracín (ES), Albarracín (EN), Albarracín (IT)), Wikivoyage (Albarracín). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.