Why is Granada important?
IMHO, Granada is probably the most beautiful province in Spain. It's got a huge climate diversity. You can see +3000 m mountains after crossing a desertic valley (Guadix), cave houses, the effect of such high mountain ranges and proximity to arid zones makes it wet and warm, making it suitable to plant tropical plant as avocados.
Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grana ... -3.5986525
Main roads:
A92-from Seville to the east (there's a fork of A-92 in the eastern part of the province A-92N north-east to Murcia, A-92 southeast to Almería)
A7 through the coastline (east-west, connects all the Mediterranean capitals).
A44 (E902) North - South (it derives from A4 (E5) from Madrid), it ends in Motril (Tropical coast of Granada).
GRANADA (CITY)
Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grana ... -3.5985571
OBLIGATORY THING TO INCLUDE IN THE GAME, you can see the ALHAMBRA and SIERRA NEVADA when you drive through A44 by the city
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GUADIX, you can see it from A92, it's got plenty of cave houses, red rocks and for a few kilometers it looks as if you were in the American west.
Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/18500 ... -3.1403256
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Mirador de Purullena
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Cuevas del Campo
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In the whole province there are many cave houses (yes, as in the Paleolithic era), the rocks are easily broken and for centuries people have turned them into fully-suitable houses (warm in winter, fresh in summer), it's easy to spot them from the highways and motorways when you drive through the east of the province. How do they look? something like this, the first is a very old picture (nowadays most of these houses have been reconstructed and look pretty cool):
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BAZA, you can see it from A92, east of Guadix
Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/18800 ... 9904?hl=es
Gorafe Desert, halfway through Guadix and Baza
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ORCE: Northeast of Baza, it's very close to A92,
Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Orce, ... 7876?hl=es
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A-44, between Granada city and Motril
Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/E-902 ... 8356?hl=es
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MOTRIL, coast of Granada, south of Granada city. A7 and A44.
Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/18600 ... 0363?hl=es
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ALMUÑÉCAR, you can see it from A92, coast of Granada, west of Motril.
Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Almu% ... 3537?hl=es
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LOJA, you can see from A92, west of the province.
Location
https://www.google.com/maps/place/18300 ... 9075?hl=es
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Plenty of olive-tree plantations in this part of the country, west & north of the province
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I'll finish off with a couple of road videos I recorded myself from Murcia to Granada and back
Granada-Guadix
Málaga-Granada (A-92)
Granada-Málaga (A-44)
Guadix-Tabernas desert
Tabernas - Lorca (Murcia)