Granada - Surroundings

A few kilometers from Purullena (55km/34mi from Granada) is Guadix (alt. 949m/3,114ft), an episcopal town on the river of the same name, with an old Moorish castle dominating the town. In the Barrio de Santiago many of the inhabitants still live in cave dwellings hewn from the local tufa.

Guadix's most notable building is the cathedral (16th-18th century), built on the foundations of an earlier mosque, with a massive tower and a Baroque facade; it has fine choir stalls and contains a museum of religious art.

Leave Granada on N 342, which runs northeast over the Puerto de la Mora (1360m/4462ft), the highest point on the road, to Purullena, a very interesting village of cave dwellings in a region of tufa hills.

The Palace of the archbishop del Cuzco (Palacio del Cuzco) is located in Viznar. The grounds are well maintained with plants and old trees.