Alfaguara Botanical Garden

Spain, Spain

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Alfaguara Botanical Garden, more precisely Arboretum La Alfaguara, is a small botanical arboretum in the Sierra de la Alfaguara near Alfacar, close to Granada in southern Spain. 

Created by restoring an old forest tree nursery, it concentrates many of the tree species found in the surrounding Sierra de Huétor Natural Park, making it a compact “summary” of the local mountain forest. The arboretum is dominated by evergreen conifers and deciduous trees, with spectacular avenues of Atlas cedars over 35 metres tall, rare pinsapos, and seasonal colour from cherries, hawthorns, elms, maples, and poplars, especially striking in autumn.

A short, signed botanical trail of only a few hundred metres allows visitors to identify the main species, and the area also serves as a refuge for birds such as blackbirds, greenfinches, crossbills, and kinglets, combining educational botany with a quiet forest walk next to a popular picnic and recreation area.