Andalusia was the birthplace of such great painters as Velázquez and Murillo (Seville) and, more recently, Picasso (Málaga); Picasso is memorialized by his native city at the Museo Picasso Málaga and Natal House Foundation; the Casa de Murillo was a house museum 1982–1998, but is now mostly offices for the Andalusian Council of Culture.
Obstajajo tudi arheološka najdišča velikega pomena: rimsko mesto Italica, rojstna hiša cesarja Trajana in (verjetno) Hadrijana; Baelo Claudia v bližini Gibraltarske ožine; Medina Azahara, mestna palača kordobskega kalifa Abd-ar-Rahman III., kjer se še vedno nadaljujejo velika izkopavanja.