La Calahorra is a municipality, part of the Comarca de Guadix, located about in the middle of the

Province of Granada Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of Albacete, Murcia, Almería, Jaén, Córdoba, Málaga, and the Mediterranean Sea (along the Costa Tropical). ...

, Spain. According to the 2019 census, the town has a population of 673 inhabitants. Nearby, in the

Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...

foothills, is the

Castillo de La Calahorra Castillo de La Calahorra is located in La Calahorra, in the province of Granada, Spain. It is situated in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Built between 1509 and 1512, it was one of the first Italian Renaissance castles to be built outside Italy. It wa ...

. Built between 1509 and 1512, it is one of the first Italian Renaissance castles outside Italy. The town aims to become a site of sky free of

light pollution Light pollution is the presence of unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive use of artificial Visible spectrum, lighting. In a descriptive sense, the term ''light pollution'' refers to the effects of any poorly implemented lighting, during the day ...

conservation following nearby Sierra de los Filabres and

Starlight Foundation Starlight Foundation certification
/ref> certification project. It is well known, as the setting of the final scenes in the 1974 David Essex film Stardust. Central Termosolar Andasol, a 150-

megawatt The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of Power (physics), power or radiant flux in the International System of Units, International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantification (science), ...

CSP plant, is located about north of the town.

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