# The most beautiful villages in Spain

The villages that appear most often in selections by National Geographic, the Most Beautiful Villages of Spain association and rural getaway guides.

- 128 votes · 22 items
- Feb 9, 2025 · Itziar Redondo Diez
- https://even.best/en/l/60/the-most-beautiful-villages-in-spain

## Top 20

1. **Albarracín (Teruel)** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — Reddish houses hanging over the Guadalaviar river and medieval walls climbing the hillside.
2. **Santillana del Mar (Cantabria)** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — Cobbled medieval town with the Romanesque collegiate church of Santa Juliana, 2 km from the Altamira cave.
3. **Setenil de las Bodegas (Cádiz)** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Houses built under the rock overhang of the Trejo gorge, as on Calle Cuevas del Sol.
4. **Valldemossa (Mallorca)** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Tramuntana village with the Charterhouse where Chopin and George Sand spent the winter of 1838.
5. **Cudillero (Asturias)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — Fishing village of colourful houses arranged like an amphitheatre around the harbour.
6. **Frigiliana (Málaga)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — White village in the Axarquía with a Moorish quarter of lanes lined with flowerpots.
7. **Alquézar (Huesca)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Village above the Vero canyon crowned by a castle-church; famous for its walkway trail.
8. **Morella (Castellón)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Walled hilltop town with a castle in the inland Els Ports region.
9. **Mojácar (Almería)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Moorish-rooted white village clinging to a hill facing the Mediterranean.
10. **Vejer de la Frontera (Cádiz)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Hilltop white town with walls and the Andalusi heritage of its lanes.
11. **Combarro (Pontevedra)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Seaside village on the Pontevedra estuary with granaries lined up by the water and stone crosses.
12. **Zahara de la Sierra (Cádiz)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — White village beneath a Nasrid castle, above the turquoise Zahara-El Gastor reservoir.
13. **La Alberca (Salamanca)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The first village declared a Historic Site in Spain (1940), with half-timbered houses.
14. **Chinchón (Madrid)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Town near Madrid famous for its medieval Plaza Mayor with wooden balconies, used as a bullring.
15. **Besalú (Girona)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Medieval town with a fortified Romanesque bridge over the Fluvià and a Jewish quarter with a mikveh.
16. **Olite (Navarra)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Home of the Royal Palace of the Kings of Navarre, a Gothic castle of towers and battlements.
17. **Aínsa (Huesca)** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — Medieval town in Sobrarbe with a large arcaded square and views of Peña Montañesa.
18. **Cadaqués (Girona)** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — White village on Cap de Creus where Dalí lived, with his house-museum in Portlligat.
19. **Pedraza (Segovia)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Walled town with a single gate, famous for its candlelight concerts in July.
20. **Lastres (Asturias)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Terraced fishing village over the Cantabrian Sea, the setting of the TV series Doctor Mateo.
21. **Peñíscola (Castellón)** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Walled old town on a rocky headland over the sea, crowned by Pope Luna's castle.
22. **Potes (Cantabria)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Capital of Liébana at the gateway to the Picos de Europa, with the Infantado tower.

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