Cogollos de Guadix is a small village with wide streets and three large squares bordering on the Sierra Nevada National Park, a true delight for the visitors, with breath-taking views of the Marquesado del Cenere and a large part of the Hoya de Guadix. The main monument in Cogollos de Guadix is the Church, the Iglesia de la Anunciacion, declared a place of cultural interest.

According to legend, San Torcuato became a martyr in Benalúa de Guadix and was buried where a small chapel has now been built in his honour. Benalúa de Guadix was built on clay land, which made it easy to carve out the area's distinctive cave dwellings. The town has a population of around 3,300.

Beas de Guadix, which used to be a prison for the Christian soldiers of the Muslim times, is located in the Sierra Nevada National Park, surrounded by badlands, peculiar forms of the clay land thanks to the action of the water, and large pine forests. As the old Roman Road that linked Guadix with Granada used to pass through Beas de Guadix, today, we can still see archaeological ruins of some of the villages of this period.

Alquife has historically been a mining village producing up to 40% of the iron extracted in Spain. Although closed today due to the crisis of the beginning of the past century, these mines had been in operation since the time of the Roman Empire. Alquife has a monument dedicated to the miners that reminds everyone of the true essence of the village.

Aldeire is situated on the northern edge of the Sierra Nevada National Park, Aldeire is a favourite ideal destination for nature and outdoor sports lovers, particularly those who enjoy hiking. It has a population of around 800.

Albuñán is a village of medieval Andalusian origin that was created on the site of an old Arab farmstead where families dedicated to growing grain lived. The name Albuñán literally means "the building," although it is not known exactly which one it refers to.

The cathedral town of Gaudix is well off the beaten path, in the eastern confines of the Province of Granada, a large, bustling country town with a personality all of its own. Its history dates back to Phoenician and Roman times, and it played a major role in the Reconquest. The most interesting feature of the Guadix area is that many of the inhabitants of this large town live underground, in the southern part of the town.

Looming over the village of La Calahorra and the plateau of the Marquesado in the northern foothills of the Sierra Nevada is one of Andalucia's most emblematic and unusual fortresses, the haunting Castillo de La Calahorra. One of the first Italian Renaissance castles outside Italy and the first in Andalucia displaying these architectural features.