The Alcazaba was founded in AD 955 by Abd al Rhahman 111 to defend the coast. Subsequently it was enlarged into a Moorish palace and...

Almeria Cathedral was built in 1524 at a time when Berber pirates often raided the city. With its many towers that once contained cannons, the...

The Plaza de la Constitucion is an attractive square where the 19th Century town hall stands. There are trees and a white monument called the...

The Aljibes de Jayron are cisterns from Moorish times. Almeria was established in the mid 10th Century when the Alcazaba was built. The city was...

The Almeria Museum is an attractive, modern museum with artefacts from all over the province. The displays cover prehistory as well as more recent times....

Los Millares is an important archaeological site which was inhabited during the third millennium BC. This was the period before the Bronze Age. It appears...

The Cabo de Gata Nijar Natural Park is a large, wild coastal area with high cliffs, little coves and small sandy beaches. Offshore are rocky...

Adra is an old coastal town which was once protected by a castle, walls and watchtowers guarding the beach. There is a museum where you...

San Jose has a wide, sandy, sheltered beach which is popular with families. The seaside resort was once a fishing village and there is a...

Laujar de Andarax is an attractive, quiet village in Las Alpujarras. There is an 18th Century Town Hall with three tiers of arches and a...

Oaseys was formerly known as Mini Hollywood and it is the oldest of the Western theme parks in this desert like area. It was created...

Western Leone is a theme park originally created for the making of the film Once Upon a Time in the West. Other films have been...

Texas Hollywood is a theme park and a film studio where many Westerns are still filmed. This rocky desert like area easily represents America`s Wild...

The Parish Church of Santa Maria in Nijar was built in the Mudejar style in the 16th Century. Its impressive defensive tower was built first...

Valor is an attractive village in the Alpujarra and it has a 16th Century Mudejar church with an artesonado ceiling and a Baroque image of...

Yegen is a village in the Las Alpujarras where the Englsh writer Gerald Brenan lived in the 1920s. He wrote the book South from Granada...

Sorbas is situated on the edge of a cliff in Karst en Yesos, a Natural Park. There are several caves and the Cuevas de Sorbas...

This dramatic castle stands on a hill above the village of La Calahorra. Rodrigo de Mendoza visited Italy and on his return built this castle....