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This fishermen's former enclave,
placed in the Nature reserve of Gata's end, has been converted
into one of the calmest tourist places and sugerentes of the littoral
almeriense. The territory in which one finds San Jose forms a
wide bay boxed between(among) two zones of volcanic, own(proper)
stone of the Cabo de Gata. The pueblecito was, up to(even) not
a lot of time ago, a fishermen's recondite port of scarcely a
few dozens of inhabitants. The appearance of the tourist phenomenon
supposed his(its) discovery.
The place possesses a rare(strange) beauty and is, undoubtedly,
ideal for the rest and the meeting with the nature. His(its,her)
clean waters, as well as the cliffs and rocks that spread bordering
on the sea they constitute an excellent frame for the practice
of the fishing or of the photographic safari submarines, without
forgetting the rest of the aquatic sports. Small urbanizations
of chalecitos occupy hillside of the mounts up to the edge of
the beach, where they find both ports: that of fishing and the
sports one, forming with the way the quite harmonic extremely
picturesque one.
One extends along a coastal band of almost 1 kilometre of width approximately 16 of length, being flanked in his(its,her) two ends by Almerimar and Roquetas's urbanizations. It includes a seuperficie of 1960 hectares of the municipalities of The Common land and Roquetas of Sea. His(its) climate is typically Mediterranean, of semiarid character, with average annual temperatures that range concerning(around) them 18ºC. The average rainfalls are not in the habit of overcoming all 250 annual liters, being the epoch of major(bigger) pluviometría the autumn. The hours of the Sun they are very raised, overcoming some years the 3.000. The predominant winds are of West, though in summer it(he,she) is in the habit of blowing also of the Levant.
The
most important of this Natural Reservation(reserve) is not his(its)
littoral, though probably it is the most spectacular thing, but
the zone of the interior, to the right of the highway that is
crossing her(it). Small pools use as refuge to hundreds of aquatic
birds: coots, Fleming(Flemish,Andalusian gipsy), coloured(red),
broke duck spoon, wine bottles, royal(real) herons, avocets,
needles, gulls and diverse species(kinds) of limícolas.
If our visit takes place between(among) May and November we will
enjoy specially a major(bigger) quantity of birds there present.
We
have to come up to Berja, km. Zero of this route alpujarreña.
And without realizing, you are going to be entering a different
world, to a landscape, a few peoples(villages) and a few peoples
who in nothing look alike to that we have come finding previously.
The artificial division of this so genuine zone partly from Granada
and it(he,she) cuts(|departs,+splits) almeriense it(he,she) will
be able to have value to administrative effects.
Almeria is, first of all, a luminous
province, being registered more than 3100 hours of the Sun anually.
For this motive he(she) has established himself(herself), in Gergal's
surroundings, the Astronomic Center Hispanic - German (To penetrate
High place), with the most powerful European telescope; and in
Taverns, the most important Solar Platforms of Europe, propitiated(caused)
by the International Agency of the Energy. This province enjoys
an everage temperature of 12,6o in winter and 23,2o in summer.
Equally, the kindness of his(its) climatology and the special
characteristics of Dalías's field, with the natural defense
of Gádor's saw, which prevents the penetration of the winds
of the North, have turned this agricultural zone into the most
productive of Europe.
Almeria is a province of contrasts: of the fertility of Dalías's
field to the desert. In the proximities of Taverns, it(he,she)
offers the remains of an important cinematographic industry that
recreated scenes of the American West.
To turn beginning Almeria
The Fort is placed in the summit
of a hill, to approximately eighty rods on the level of the sea.
The worn down walls that Olive groves of the Rock it(he,she) observed
in 1878, they were, to his(its) judgment(reason), " reconstructed
by the Arabs and to his(its) taste almenadas, and they proclaim
the former lineage of Almeria. Some writers make mend his(its)
origin to the times of the Phoenician domination and do not walk
to my to see wrong those who such suppose, provided that rare(strange)
times we find(found) in the fortification of the Arabs so excessive
extension ".
In 1931, for decree of June, three published in the Gazette the
following day, the Fort Historical - artistic Monument is declared.
They
follow(continue) the works in May de1942, being restored the door
of entry (Door Judiciaria), both plants(floors) of the Tower of
the Mirrors and the adarve of the first enclosure, and a few siloes
being discovered near the treadmill and the cisterns. Also he(she)
fixed up the tower of the second enclosure and the mosque with
the tower of the muecón, appearing a few dungeons. And
in the tercer enclosure the adarves of the towers was repaired,
beside placing it is a shield of the Kings Católicos in
the Tower of the Honoring, where also there was cleaned a well
of eight meters; the treadmill of the Wind was deepened up to
all 56 meters and dismantled and fixed up the vault of the Tower
of the Polvorín, destining her(it) to museum.
In 1950 the Gothic arch dismounted and with the opposing dovelas
wider other one consisted.
On January 20, 1989 The Kings Don Juan Carlos and Dona Sefía
visited the Fort.
The Holidays(parties) of Almeria are from August 20 to August
27.
One day is worth going to the Fair and crossing the sheds (in
the prolongation of the Avda. of the Mediterranean)
Coordinated with precedence, by post and by means of telephonic call to the Set or across the Pedagogic Office(cabinet) of fine arts, situated in the Provincial Delegation of Almeria:
Of the Fort to the cathedral the
transition is not very violent (he(she) says Olive groves of the
Rock in 1778), since the Cathedral actually(indeed) is not another
thing that a castle. Four towers of big ashlars defend his(its,her)
angles and up to the same apse the form of a fort presents torreón
polygonal. His(its,her) high walls are protected by loopholes
and battlements, so that the building stays exteriormente small
less than eclipsed by what it(he,she) has of fortress ".
The permanent threat of the Algerian and Berber pirates binds
to construct the Cathedral as a fortress centred on the city,
in which the neighbors could be provided in case of emergency.
And there arose this immense hermetic mass flanked of buckets
and crowned with battlements, which is the Cathedral.
During
the 17th century there is a few occasions in which the danger
of an assault to the coast is sharpened and the defense of the
Cathedral is prepared with major(bigger) care. In October, 1620,
after the assault and Adra's occupation for the Algerian pirates,
the Chapter buys forty arcabuces and ten muskets Don Iñigo
Briceño, general captain of the Coast.
Little later, in the spring of 1625, the navies provoke the alarm
Englishwoman and Frenches, who maraud for Alborán's sea.
The Town hall proposes to the Chapter that two companies of the
militias concejiles, ordered(sent) by Alonso de Marín the
Old and his(its) son Francisco, defend the Cathedral. The alarm
happens(passes) without innovation and the situation is saved.
Ten years later, in 1635, military men of profession organize
the defense of the cathedral. The Chapter, I lack(am absent) of
money, he(she) resolved(reminded) pedirlo given the bishop to
buy fifty arcabuces and twenty muskets. One never managed to complete
such an armament for lack of money. In this occasion the buy was
expanded, the danger happened(passed) and forgot. There does not
consist any other serious organization of the defense of the Cathedral.
The challenges of these cisterns that they were supplying of water to the city use as headquarters to the Flemish(Andalusian gipsy) rock " The Taranto ". Street Tenor Iribarne. They are of the 11th century.
It(he,she) ordered her to construct Abderramán III in the year 965. The only thing that remains is the wall of the Quibla and Mihrab's niche. Nowadays one finds the Church of San Juan, opposite to the barrack of the Mercy (former Military Government).
From the Fort across the ravine of the Pit there gets up a line of wall that comes up to the Hill of St Kitts. 11th century. Al Cerro of St Kitts can be acceded by the street Antonio Vico. We find(found) seven torreones, three muslmanes and four Christians. Also an altar with the image of the Jesœs's sacred Heart, inaugurated in 1930.
Founded in 1515. Cervantes is acceded by the street. Front page(front) of beginning(principles) of the 17th century. The small front page(front) of entry to the temple and the tower they are of Mudejar style of the 17th century. Entered(approached) street Eusebio Arrieta. The Major Altar presides at a baroque altarpiece.
Founded in 1590. He(she) understands(includes) an apple by street Jovellanos, Marian, Old Plaza and Marín. His(its) definitive construction dates back to the 18th century.
The Kings Católicos founded the convent in 1495. The temple is constructed in the 16th century. The front pages(fronts) in the 19th century. In his(its) interior there guards and venerates the Mistress of Almeria, the Virgin of the Mar. Polychrome Gothic height of the centuries XII-XIV.
Placed in the square(seat) of the same name. His(its) origin was the convent of San Francisco, founded by the Kings Católicos in the 16th century. Destroyed by an earthquake in 1790 the current church was constructed in 1800.
Placed in the square(seat) of saying it(he,she,I) names(name). Mosque in the Moslem epoch. In the 17th century the parish of San Sebastian is constituted. Monument to Color You: one raised in honoring the martyrs of the freedom, who on August 24, 1825 had been revolted against the absolutism.
Building of the centuries XVIII-XIX. Recently restored. Plaza Bendicho.
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That understands(includes) a surface
of 26.000 terrestrial hectares and 12.000 maritime. It(he,she)
spreads over the municipalities of Almeria, Níjar and Charcoal-bins.
One tells with a total population that it(he,she) overcomes all
100.000 inhabitants and Nature reserve was declared in 1987. An
itinerary for it(him), he(she,I) would be leading us for places
as beautiful as San Miguel of Cabo de Gata, San Jose, The Genoeses,
Mónsul, The Well of the Friars, the Islet of the Moor,
Rodalquilar, The Negresses and Aguamarga.
It includes a surface of 169.239 hectares and spreads over
the provinces of Granada and Almeria. Nature reserve was declared
in 1989. To cross it, we would have visit the municipalities almerienses
of Abla, Abrucena, Alboloduy, Alcolea, Bayárcal, Beires,
Canjáyar, Dona Maria, Fiñana, Hefty, Laujar, Birth,
Ohanes, Paternal, Rágol and Terque.
Smaller than other two, with only 18.962 hectares distributed
between(among) Vélez Blanco's municipalities, Maria and
Chirivel. There registers in his(its) interior a population of
6.115 inhabitants and Nature reserve was declared in 1987. It(he)
is the most north of the province and good part of it(he) is catalogued
as forest.
Routes for Places and Natural Reservations(reserves)
Five exist in the province of Almeria:
Adra's large salt-water lagoon
A surface of 152 hectares, all of them in the Adra's municipal
term(end), which understands(includes) the Large salt-water lagoons
Deep and New and the perimeter of absorbent vegetation of the
environment.
That includes a surface of 1.960 hectares of the municipalities
of The Common land and Roquetas of Sea. A walk along she(it) would
lead us to visit Top Entinas, Almerimar, The Sea-coasts and the
beacon of Top Sabinar.
Catalogued as such a surface of 11.625 hectares, which spread
over the municipalities of Taverns, Gádor and Gérgal.
It is the only natural space that in the whole Europe has the
cataloguing desert.
Karst in Sorbas's plasters
They are approximately 2.375 hectares of the Sorbas's municipal
term(end). One finds in margins of the river Waters and the most
excellent thing of it(him) they are them more than 200 catalogued
caves.
An approximate surface of 8.500 hectares of the municipalities
of Almeria, Taverns, Lucainena of the Towers, Níjar, Scallop
and Rioja, characterized by his(its,her) thermal waters and his(its)
vegetation type oasis.
So(then,since) yes, it(he) is true. The whole year dreaming with the summer, and finally, it(he,she) has come. Nice epoch her(it) to dedicate to the leisure, to(on) the relax, to forgetting the work and the daily routine. Excellent occasion stops to change airs, stops to know new places, environments, landscapes of beach or of interior. The days are more lengths and we prune to take advantage from morning till night (that is not small) to get lost for this pueblecitos where peace is breathed, or in the hustle of a Mediterranean beach. He(she) has thought already the destiny? For that one of the contrast of landscape and climate, probably an escapadita in the north of Spain. Or maybe it(he,she,I) desires(desire) you to cross the Pyrenees and to appear to Europe. And even it(he,she) can be that you want to cross the puddle and risk to American lands. And already in exotic plan, the distant East. So(then,since) very well. I do not want to deprive you of your dream of the whole year. But the summer is long. You are not going to still have a few diíllas to give you a garbeo for our province? And it(he,she) is that(that), of having her(it) so nearby, in too many occasions we know her and value her(it) less enough than it is deserved. I count(tell) you. Almeria is associated too often with desert. This way it(he,she) is, in effect. We have the privilege of possessing the only zone catalogued as desert in the whole Europe. But it(he,she) is that also we have forests. You can verify it in the zone almeriense of Sierra Nevada or in to María's saw. Beaches, of all(all) the types and for all the tastes: coastal virgin (Cabo de Gata), solitary coves (Side, Pulpí), beaches of blurred(busy,moved) (Roquetas, Charcoal-bins) or luxurious urbanizations (Almerimar). And even intellectual beaches (The University is in the first line of beach) .Si your preferences are orientated towards the interior, three quarters(rooms) of them same: peoples(villages) loaded with legend, tradition and spell(magic) (Mojacar, Níjar); historical - artistic sets (Vélez Rubio, Vélez Blanco); Peoples(villages) whose history gets lost in the time (Adra, Berja, Elks); monumental peoples(villages) (Side, Caves, Huércal Overa), peoples(villages) of Arabic flavor (Laujar, Hefty) or simply peoples(villages) - peoples, of not more than one hundred of inhabitants, where only the singings of the birds are listened, to flow of the water of the sources(fountains) or the crickets in the night (Alsodux, Cóbdar, Bayárcal, Paternal, Bacares, Vícar, Baires) .A the long of these pages I can go orientating you for our province. I will go you narrating customs, legends, traditions, holidays(parties), though without fleeing of brief historical, cultural or gastronomic brushstrokes. In two words: it is my idea that these pages you use as companion of tourism or in the books of use. Some button of sample goes. You know that in Alboloduy still(yet) an auctioneer exists? And that the place most visited of Alhabia is his(its) drugstore? You know how he was elected the boss of Purchena? Or that Vícar is the only people(village) of Spain that does not celebrate his(its,her) plenary sessions in his(its) Town hall? That the court of honor of Vélez Blanco's castle is in the Museum of New York? That in Sorbas has catalogued more than 200 underground caves of incredible beauty? And that The Landmark is the youngest people(village) of Spain? Or that Bayárcal is the people(village) placed to major(bigger) altitude of the province? These and other similar anecdotes will be appearing along close pages of The Voice of Almeria. I hope that they are good companions in your visit to this great unknown: Almeria
We would initiate this Route by which
Almeria is known as Highway of the Coast, and that at all time
passes parallel to the sea. We would start by seeing the University
(precious(beautiful), in the first line of beach) and Costacabana
and Retamar's urbanizations, as well as the Airport, in the middle
of both. From here (we take(took) crossed approximately 10 km.)
We would enter the zone of Cabo de Gata. Special support would
do in the zone of the Nature reserve (the first one in being declared
such in Spain) and we would be crossing a series of magicians
pueblecitos seaworthy(sea): Cabo de Gata, San Jose, Well of the
Friars, The Escullos, The Negresses, Monsul, The Genoeses. Already
we are to approximately 30 km. Of the capital. In this moment
we would enter a bit the interior to know pueblecitos miners and
agriculturalists as Rodalquilar, the Hortichuelas and Fernán
Perez. Of there we would turn to coast to visit the beacon of
Table Roldán, Aguamarga and Charcoal-bins, the people(village)
of major(bigger) tourist projection of the zone, to nuos 60 km.
Of Almeria. And in this point we would initiate the return, but
for the interior, to know peoples(villages) of an agriculture,
I would dare to call me her handcrafted and targets as the lime
that embellishes his(its,her) faces: The Argamasón, the
Plain of D. Antonio, Campohermoso and, on all, Níjar, probably
the most peculiar people(village) of the province. WE WOULD COME
to Almeria crossing the slums of The Alquián, La Ca±ada
and The Mills.
We will begin this route towards the interior of the province, leaving on both sides of her(it) a series of pueblecitos in that we enter(entered) a later(posterior) route. This way we will cross the Desert of Taverns, with his(its,her) lunar landscapes and his(its,her) old men populated with the West, today turned into tourist attraction. From Taverns (to 30 km) we will continue towards Sorbas (to 25 km), picturesque people(village) with horrifying coffees with a dash of milk. From here to go to the coast, crossing The Gracefull ones, Alfaix and Turre. And we will initiate the coastal route for the people(village) mas singularly of the province: Mojácar. Of there to Pulley (7 km.) And, without leaving the coastal line, Port King, Dovecots, Villaricos, the Well of the Esparto and, already in the limit with the province of Murcia, S. Juan de los Terreros, where we would initiate the return. Already for the interior (though without losing of sight(seen) the sea), we will visit Pulpí, Guazamarra, Almanzora's caves it(he,she) stops to come to Side. And here I would recommend the old man to be detained, to happen(pass) the night in some housing of the zone (they are for all the tastes and pockets) and to be prepared to follow(continue) next day by a highway more tortuous enough than them previously used.
We would cut(|depart,+split), exceptionally, from the people(village) where we stay(stayed) in the previous route, probably Mojácar, Pulley or Side. And from the latter we take(took) the Railcar to come the detour that indicates Albox (to approximately 15 km.) . We retire(retired) in this bridge of the railcar to enter in her(it) N-323. We will cross small pueblecitos agriculturalists: The Ores, The Alfoquía, Arboleas and Almanzora, to come to Albox, head-board of the region. We will enter the Saw Almanzora, to visit nice peoples(villages) of interior: Cantoria, Ends(purposes), Olula, Purchena (from where we would turn 6 km aside. Up to Suflí and I Saw, famous for his(its,her) fritters), Armuña and the most important people(village) of the zone: Tíjola. Of there to Serón (famous for his(its,her) hams), I populate from that(that) we would begin the return. This we will initiate for the sinuous and unusual highway (sometimes even(enclosed) without asfaltar) that would take us to the peoples(villages) of the heart of the saw: The Ores (former populated left miner), Bacares and Bayarque. The carreterita of gaps would return to Tíjola, from where we would return for the same highway that us led him during approximately 15 km., up to Olula of the Rio. And in this point we would leave her N-323 to begin a picturesque descent for peoples(villages) as Macael (the best mármoles of Spain), Chercos, Tahal, Alcudia and Senés. To few kilometres it(he,she) is already her(it) N-340, at a height of(the level of) Taverns, which he(she,I) would lead him(her) to Almeria.
We would cut(|depart,+split) in this occasion towards zones of West, for her(it) N-340 (it(she) is preferable this option, but also you can throw for Railcar), towards Aguadulce, to ten km. Of the capital, the first urbanization of the province (chronologically speaking). We would continue advancing course to The Inn, and there we would turn aside towards Roquetas (to 5 km.), Seaworthy(sea), adjacent people(village) already with the urbanization of the same name. But after leaving behind these zones small they have of originally, a small highway us enters towards Serene Beach and the Nature reserve of Top Entinas, on which I will spread more. Across an urbanization, Almerimar, we will come to The Common land, geographical center of the coastal zone. In this moment, the traveler has two options: First: to follow(continue) for to coast: Old Guards, Balerma, Balanegra, up to ending in Adra, the most ancient people(village) of Almeria, from where we will initiate the raise towards the Alpujarra Almeriense concretly towards Berja. Second: to rise directly towards the mountainous zone: The Pampanico, Dalías (former head-board of region), Celín, Alcaudique and finally, Berja, to 50 km. Of the capital.
For any of two ways that I offered
you in the third route you have come up to Berja, km. Zero of
this route alpujarreña. And without realizing, you are
going to be entering a different world, to a landscape, a few
peoples(villages) and a few peoples who in nothing look alike
to that we have come finding previously.
The artificial division of this so genuine zone partly from Granada
and part(report) almeriense will be able to have value to administrative
effects. But the men and women who live(inhabit) these most singular
peoples(villages) do not understand on artifices and are considered
first of all and especially alpujarreños. We go(went) out
of Berja. From here we would enter The Alpujarra in strict sense
and would visit small peoples(villages) lost in half of the mountain:
Castala (with a precious(beautiful) recreative complex), Alcolea,
Laujar (former residence of Moorish kings), from where we would
turn approximately 10 km aside. For conference(seen) Paternal
and Bayárcal. We would return to the regional highway to
happen(pass) for Hefty, Baires, Almócita and Ohanes, famous
his(its) grape of table. And here we would begin the decrease
for Canjáyar, Rágol, Instinción and Íllar,
to end in Alhama, zone of thermal waters, with a precious(beautiful)
resort. We are to approximately 30 km. Of Almeria. We will come
to her(it) crossing Gádor's saw for three charming peoples(villages)
of mountain: Enix, Felix and Vicar. Of there Aguadulce (7 km.)
and to a step, Almeria.
We will initiate this route for N-340, for where same the route 4. And in this case, yes we will turn aside minimally towards the peoples(villages) that are adjacent to her(it): Huercal, Benadux and Scallop, visiting specially a few thermal existing baths in his(its,her) surroundings and a former restored resort: Saw Alhamilla. Later we will return to the General 340 will cross Rioja, to approximately 16 km. Of the capital. We will advance some others, up to coming to a bifurcation and will take direction to Granada. To approximately 18 km. Of the crossing we will find Gérgal, in the spurs of the Saw of the Filabres. To 5 km it(he) is obligatory to leave her C-326 along that we circulate(circulated), stops to visit a pueblecito of dream, Aulago, and of there to follow(continue) course to the observatory of Penetrating High place, the major one of Europe. We come(came) back to her(it) C-326 from that we will turn approximately 4 km aside little later. To come to Birth. Of there to All Three Villas (19 km) and to 8 km, Abla. For the surroundings we will visit Abrucena, The Cleared grounds (a precious(beautiful) natural place adapted to recreative complex) and the natural refuge Ubeire (I will give detailed information about these two natural spaces). Finally we will visit Fiñana, the head-board of region of the zone. After visiting Fiñana, we will turn(become) for the same route up to the crossing that, spent(passed,past) Birth (approximately 25 km), he(she) leads us to her(it) N-324. Along approximately 10 km. Of descending highway, we will visit small very typical peoples(villages) of the zone of the Rio Birth: Alboloduy, Santa Cruz, Alsodux, Alhabia. Slightly hereinafter(later on) we must do the stopped one in the prehistoric settlement of the Thousands, valuable sample of the Neolithic Hispanic. Gádor will be the last people(village) that will deserve one stopped before returning to her(it) N-340. From this point up to Almeria, approximately 12 km. They separate us.
Since(as) the bodies at this point they will not be already for many trots, we will resort for the latter route to the odious Railcar, by which any people(village) is not crossed, but that saves a lot of time in a long trip like this that occupies us. Along her(it) we will circulate during approximately 110 km, up to Huercal Overa, one of the peoples(villages) mas señorales of Almeria. Here we say(said) goodbye of the Railcar and begin(began) to ascend for her(it) C-321 towards Santa Maria of It snows (to 11 km). We will cross a series of farm estates, in which the landscape is increasingly typical of high mountain. To 25 km we find(found) Vélez Rubio, one of the most monumental peoples(villages) of the province. To 6 km Vélez Blanco is, in the shade of a precious(beautiful) Renaissance castle ... externally, hollow(hollow) within (already I will extend information). Very quite close there is situated the Cave of the Signs, sample of the art Paleolithic. And you upset 2 km, Maria, a nice people(village) of mountain. From Maria we will enter the Nature reserve of María's saw, surrounded with a leafy forest of pines and of that(that) I will give wide information. From there, we will return to Vélez Rubio, to continue course to Chirivel (18 km), another nice people(village) of the north zone of the province, where we will begin the decrease towards Albox. In the middle of these 25 km of decrease we will find the Monastery of Projection, hermits' former hostelry. We will stop on both sides of the highway small typical populations of the zone, up to coming to Albox, I populate already visited in a previous route. And the better(best) thing that can make the traveler, if she has been still this guide stepwise and knows already the whole province, it(he,she) is to take(catch) again the Railcar and to return to Almeria to rest, that good lack(mistake) him(her) will do.
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