Almería in Andalusia

13 February 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

© Gernot Keller - www.gernot-keller.com/cc-by-sa-2.5

© Gernot Keller – www.gernot-keller.com/cc-by-sa-2.5

Almería is a city in Andalusia, situated in the southeast of Spain on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the province of the same name. Almería originated with the need for a better defence system that the Arab towns in the area had. It was Abd-al-Rahman III who founded the Alcazaba (the Citadel), which gave this city its name: Al-Mariy-yat (the Watchtower).   read more…

The Costa Tropical on the Spanish Mediterranean coast

26 November 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

La Herradura © Emilio Morales Barbero

La Herradura © Emilio Morales Barbero

Costa Tropical is a comarca in southern Spain, corresponding to the Mediterranean coastline of the province of Granada, Andalusia. It is also but less frequently called the Costa de Granada or Costa Granadina. It is crossed by the N-340 coastal highway that runs southwest-northeast along Spain’s Mediterranean coast, to the border with France. Within the last 4 years the A7 has been extended from Nerja in the Malaga province to the Taramay district to the east of Almuñécar.   read more…

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