Ya´Far’s house in Madinat Al-Zahra

The restoration works carried out on the stacks of materials spread over the site have made it possible to recompose more than 120 marble slabs and about 50 of violet limestone, some of which...

Córdoba / Córdoba / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2004

Various urban works in Palos de la Frontera

The distinct projects promoted by the Town Hall and awarded by Europa Nostra focused on historical buildings and urban spaces from the time of Christopher Columbus.

Palos de la Frontera / Huelva / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1987

The Snow Wells

The original use of the Constantina Snow Wells, an old artificial snowfield, gives this emblematic building in the Sierra Norte de Sevilla a very particular mark.

Constantina / Sevilla / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2006

The Chimney of the old lead factory “Los Guindos”

The chimney of the old lead factory is the symbol of the industrial legacy of the city of Malaga.

Málaga / Málaga / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2009

The Casería de Tomillos

For the restoration, the local masons had to learn traditional construction techniques and became aware of the richness of the historical legacy that surrounds them.

Alcalá del Valle / Cádiz / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2009

The Andalusian Royal Hooks Club

The Andalusian Royal Hooks Club has been, since its foundation in 1984, the great Spanish benchmark for horse-drawn carriage culture.

Sevilla / Sevilla / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Dedicated service / Heritage champions in the year 2010

Sitio arqueológico Casa del Obispo

The Bishop's House offers the rare experience of walking in the same site through Phoenician, Punic, Roman, and Muslim cultural remains.

Cádiz / Cádiz / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2006

San Juan de los Reyes Mudejar church

The architectural complex is an excellent example of the cultural and social hybridization between Islam and Christian Spain.

Granada / Granada / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2006

Riotinto mining park

The former owner of the famous mines knew how to reinvent it into a Foundation promoting the study and dissemination of mining from a location with five thousand years of history.

Riotinto / Huelva / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2003

Restoration of the oratory of the Partal Palace and the House of Astasio de Bracamonte in The Alhambra

The respectful and thorough intervention undertaken, opening up new opportunities to understand traditional Hispano-Muslim building techniques.

Granada / Granada / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2019

Restoration of the old Hospital Real de Granada

The conversion of the old Royal Hospital of Granada into university headquarters has allowed the total conservation of its different architectural styles and spaces.

Granada / Granada / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1982

Restoration of the old convent of los Terceros

The Palace of the Dukes of Arcos and the Los Terceros Convent were saved from complete demolition when they were bought by the municipal water company of Seville, which restored them and adapted them...

Sevilla / Sevilla / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1990

Restoration of the Fountain of los Leones in the Alhambra

The restoration of the lions and the fountain - in the heart of the most significant Nasrid palace - as well as the renovation of the complicated water supply system has been a real...

Granada / Granada / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2013

Restoration of the carrera del Darro

The picturesque frescoes of the palatial houses of the Carrera del Darro, hidden under the lime for centuries, were recovered on the occasion of the fifth centennial.

Granada / Granada / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1992

Restoration of Santa María de la Rábida monastery

The commemoration of the fifth centenary led to the final restoration of one of the landmarks on any of Columbus’ routes.

Palos de la Frontera / Huelva / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1992

Restoration of Cervantes Theatre

The recovery of the great Cervantes Theatre has returned to the public in Malaga a modern performance hall in the form of a Municipal Theatre.

Málaga / Málaga / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1987

Restoration of a morisca house

Restoration work has turned an old Albaicin housing estate into an excellent example of a Moorish house from the late 15th century.

Granada / Granada / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2001

Restoration of a 17th-century building in Jerez de la Frontera

Since 1999, 29 Bizcocheros Street in the town centre, has been home to a picturesque 17th-century Jerez palatial house, where a decade before there was only rubble.

Jerez de la Frontera / Cádiz / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1999

Restoration in the Cazalla de la Sierra Charterhouse

The restoration of the Charterhouse de la Sierra is a great example of the contribution of private initiative to the salvation of artistic heritage.

Cazalla de la Sierra / Sevilla / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1986

Restoration and rehabilitation of the Venerables Sacerdotes hospital

The Venerables Sacerdotes Hospital, restored by the FOCUS foundation, has one of the best periods of Spanish Baroque religious painting on site.

Sevilla / Sevilla / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1992

Rehabilitation of the Villarreal palace in Baeza

The Villarreal Palace, built in the 16th century, was bought by the Andalusian Regional Government and completely restored by the students of the Baeza Heritage Restoration School as a social housing complex.

Baeza / Jaén / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1991

Rehabilitation of the Trinitarios descalzos church in Baeza

A modern wooden vault covers the nave of a church that has been transformed into a modern public assembly hall, safeguarding, above all, the original spirit of the building.

Baeza / Jaén / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1996

Recovery of the arab baths, Jaen

The works in the basement of the Villardompardo palace revealed the extraordinary importance of the old Arab Baths of Jaen, the largest and best-preserved in Spanish territory.

Jaén / Jaén / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1984

Recovery of el Caminito del Rey

The recovery of this centennial path, a chilling one hundred metres above the Guadalhorce river gorge, is one more example of the close relationship between the preservation of historical memory and the development of...

Ardales, Antequera and Álora / Málaga / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2016

PAX-Patios de la Axerquía

This is an innovative system of governance for heritage buildings that fosters a new model of urban regeneration through social innovation in a heritage context, based on the rehabilitation of the abandoned patio-houses (casa...

Córdoba / Córdoba / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Citizens engagement and awareness-raising in the year 2022

Master plan of the monumental complex of la Alhambra and Generalife

Since the founding of the Patronage of the Alhambra and the Generalife, the management of this architectural treasure with a universal name has been a model to be followed in many other places.

Granada / Granada / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Research in the year 2009

Los Descalzos church

The church of Los Descalzos had been closed for thirty years, hiding its exuberant interior richness of stucco work, which makes it one of the best examples of Seville's Baroque.

Écija / Sevilla / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2010

Hacienda los Molinos de Maestre

The estate has remained in the hands of the same family since its creation in the 17th century by Diego Maestre Aernoust, born Jacobo Meester in the Flemish city of Bruges.

Dos Hermanas / Sevilla / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2010

Five buildings for public use in the natural park of Sierra Nevada

Europa Nostra awarded the administration's effort to facilitate rural tourism in the Sierra Nevada Natural Park, one of the few Biosphere Reserve sites in our country.

Postero Alto, Puerto de la Ragua, Laroles, El Dorado y Ubeire / Almería, Granada / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 1995

Artisan lime, Morón. Recovery and dissemination of its knowledge and associated assets within the framework of sustainable actions in Europe

The complex includes different spaces, among which twenty-five lime kilns stand out, six houses used by workers of the trade, the furniture associated with them, and the protected quarry, commonly known as a historical...

Morón de la Frontera / Sevilla / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Education, training and awareness-raising / Education, training and skills in the year 2021

ART-RISK. Artificial intelligence applied to the preventive restoration of heritage buildings

The software has been tested in Seville, Cádiz, and Granada, and as an internationalization line in Colombia, Peru, the United Kingdom, Cuba, and Chile.

Sevilla / Sevilla / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Research in the year 2021

Algaba education centre

Algaba de Ronda safeguards the heritage of its mountain range while creating jobs, serving as a training tool, and preventing the flight of intellectual capital from the area.

Ronda / Málaga / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Education, training and awareness-raising / Education, training and skills in the year 2008

Actions in the Roman bridge and surroundings of puerta del puente and la Calahorra

The actions in the environment of the Guadalquivir, which have lasted eight years and cost thirty-three million euros, have returned to the citizens of Cordoba a first-class urban space for its beauty and historical...

Córdoba / Córdoba / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Conservation / Conservation and adaptive reuse in the year 2014

“We are all archeology”

At the birth of the Sisyphus Research Group, the impression prevailed that Cordoba's heritage had never been sufficiently valued by the population of Cordoba.

Córdoba / Córdoba / Andalucía.
Award in the Category Education, training and awareness-raising / Education, training and skills in the year 2014