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Salobreña
Salobreña () is a town on the ''Costa Granadina'' in Granada, Spain. It claims a history stretching back 6,000 years. There are two main parts of Salobreña; The first is The Old Town which sits atop a rocky prominence and is a cluster of whitewashed houses and steep narrow streets leading up to a tenth-century Moorish castle, called 'Castillo de Salobreña' and it is one of its main tourist attractions. The second part of Salobreña is new developments which spread from the bottom of the Old Town right to the beach. The whole town is almost surrounded by sugarcane fields on each side along the coast and further inland. Another tourist attraction in Salobreña is 'El Peñón' (The Rock), which divides two of Salobreña's five beaches and juts out between Playa La Guardia and Playa de la Charca/Solamar and into the sea. History Geological background At the close of the last glacial maximum, the Motril-Salobreña plain on which Salobreña now stands was not yet land: rather it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Granadina
Costa Granadina (; "Granadan Coast") is a comarca (Spain), comarca in southern Spain, corresponding to the Mediterranean coastline of the province of Granada. It is also but less frequently called the Costa Tropical or Costa de Granada. This comarca was established in 2003 by the Government of Andalusia. It is crossed by the N-340 coastal highway that runs southwest–northeast along Spain's Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast, to the border with France. Within the last 4 years the A7 motorway has been extended along the coast from Nerja in the province of Málaga, Málaga province to Motril where it links the A7 motorway to the A44 motorway which heads north from Motril to the city of Granada. Geography The Costa Granadina is made up mostly of agricultural zones and small resort towns and villages. What makes the Costa Granadina unique in comparison to the rest of the Spanish coast is that the mountains of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada range fall to the very edg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |