Alhama de Granada is a great town in the Granada province with incredible scenery and lots of agricultural fincas available at a fraction of the price of fincas on the Granada coastline. Alhama de Granada is a good place to visit ands consider for people looking for the good climate on a budget.

Alhama de Granada is a picturesque little town only at about 50 km away from both the legendary town of Granada and the Mediterranean coast, in the south-eastern Spain. The town, perched atop a hill overlooking the gorge of the river Alhama, has a distinctive Moorish flavour. At a convenient distance from the town centre nestling in a poplar grove lining down the banks of the river (also known as Merchan) you will find a hot springs. Prehistoric remains found in the neighbourhood, show the antiquity of the human settlements.

There are also clear evidences of the way Romans used the waters In the 15th century, the Arabs consolidated the town next to these hot springs and they built there their baths. The strategic influence of Alhama de Granada made vital the fall, in 1492, of the Arab empire for the conquest of the Kingdom of Granada, which lead to the beginning of a flourishing age, because of the patronage of the Catholic Monarchs. The bath house in the Almohade style of the 12th century that is preserved in the SPA is a good example of Arab baths’ construction.

The magnificent horse shoe arcs were built over the remains of Roman construction and are covered by a vaulted roof, pierced by star-shaped openings that let the daylight filter in. Under the vaulted roof of the baths it bubbles up the oldest warm spring of Alhama de Granada. The newest one, which springs up a few metres from the other, was discovered in 1884, many centuries after a terrible earthquake whose epicentre could have been very near the area.

Alhama de Granada is also currently the site of the Rocket Festival.