Balneario de Graena

Balneario de Graena is located in Graena, a small village in the Guadix Basin of Granada Province, Andalusia, set in a remarkable landscape of badlands and cave dwellings that makes this corner of Granada one of Spain's most unusual inhabited environments — the Guadix region is home to Europe's largest community of troglodyte cave dwellers, where over 2,000 families still live in whitewashed cave houses carved into the soft tuff hillsides, a practice with origins in the Moorish era that has continued because the caves provide naturally temperature-regulated living spaces in the region's climate of extreme heat and cold. The springs at Graena, emerging at approximately 47°C from the complex geological faults of the Granada Basin, deliver bicarbonate mineral water long valued locally, in a setting where the cave dwelling landscape adds a dimension of surreal architectural beauty to the bathing experience. Bathing in Graena's waters with the troglodyte hills of the Guadix badlands visible in every direction offers one of Spain's most culturally and geologically singular spa experiences.