Spain Property Guide - January 2022 Issue 7

ALMERIA
COSTA
It seems most Spanish costas are around 200
kilometres long, and the Costa de Almería is
exception, measuring 217 kilometres in length. In
essence, it is a continuation of the dry, warm, rugged
terrain of the Costa Cálida, but as you head south
towards the Cabo de Gata nature reserve the
landscape becomes increasingly ‘Martian’.
The sleepy little resort community of San Juan de los
Terreros marks the northern edge. At Pozo del Esparto
there is a delicious sense beachside seclusion in the
midst of a perhaps more lunar landscape, sure to
delight nature lovers. This part of the coast is made
for people yearning to get away from the madding
crowd, and even at the little marina and resort of
Villaricos there is no sense of a major high-rise town.
It was in nearby Palomares that locals discovered
missing bombs that the US Navy had waylaid but
had not been able to relocate, despite large-scale
searches.
A NATURAL AND NUDIST PARADISE
This open-spaced, thinly populated coastline has
attracted such a concentration of nudists that a
resort dedicated to this kind of tourism sprang up in
Vera, where the Playas de Vera is now one of the
largest nudist resort areas in the world. Residents
of the nearby inland town of Vera are not always
pleased with the epithet, but it has put this part of the
coast on the map and creates many jobs in the area.
Just south of here are the resorts of Puerto Rey
and Las Marinas, which are marked by low-rise
development, Further along, at the marina resort
town of Garrucha, this culminates in a bit more of
a town feeling, complete with larger buildings and
a historic centre. One of the highlights of the Costa
de Almería is Mojácar, which is curiously divided into
the original hillside town – a pretty collection of whiteplastered
houses – and the charming beachside
resort of Mojácar Playa.
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