Albarracín · Teruel Province · Spain

Casco Histórico de Albarracín

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moderate

9/10

best: spring, autumn, sunset

romantic, remote, historic

A local would say...

The paint on these houses has been the same colour for a thousand years — a deep terracotta that turns rose-gold at sunset and exists nowhere else quite like this.

One of Spain's most beautiful villages, Albarracín combines time-worn streets in shades of ochre and dusky rose with a dramatic setting on a rocky promontory above the Guadalaviar river. Its 9th-century Islamic castle with 11 towers crowns the old town, while the surrounding city walls draped steeply over a hill — the Torre del Andador dates from the 9th century — offer panoramic views unchanged since the Middle Ages.