Costa Almeria is located in Almeria province in the Andalucia region of South East of Spain. Costa Calida in the Murcia region neigbours Costa Almeria to the north and to the south is Costa Tropical. In Eastern Almeria there is the Cabo de Gata – Nijar Natural Park. Western Almeria is where mainly developed package holiday resorts are. On the northern coast there is a naturalist beach. Many of the regions tourists have bought their own Costa Almeria Villas or Costa Almeria Apartments.
The beaches have white fine sand also secluded coves with cliffs. It also contains fishing harbours and marinas, salt lagoons and nature reserves. Vera has a water park with kamikaze, body ski, twisting slides, river adventure, black hole, large pool and lake and special children’s pool and slides. A lot of produce is grown here such as the like of Oranges and Grapes all covered with plastic. These are exported to most of Europe.
There is a warm winter season with high temperatures averaging of 18c per year and low rainfall of average of 200mm – the lowest on Iberian Peninsula.
Its eponymous mountain range is Spain’s largest volcanic rock formation. It forms 100m jaggered cliffs to the sea. With it’s many rock islands and coral reefs teeming with life. They are many habitats within the area. Ranging from sand dunes, beaches, saltpans, salt marshes and arid inland steppe with dry riverbeds. There are also lava flows, volcanic domes and calderas, fossilized beaches and reefs. The park’s symbol is the dwarf fan palm, which grows here. There are also species only found in the park, some of which flower all year round. In the waters of the park you will find beds of Posidonia Oceanica, 260 species of seaweed with its crustaceans, molluscs and fish.
The park has plenty of bird life, which includes many migrating birds plus Flamingos, ducks, herons and storks and ducks. There is a wide variety of reptiles, Italian wall lizards, Ocellated lizards, grass snakes and Latasters viper.
The Alcazaba, which is the 2nd largest fort built by Muslims in Spain, could hold an army of more than 20 000 men. It was built as a defence to the city and gave the city its name. Al-mariy-yat Alcazaba which means the watchtower. Within the triple wall thickness are Mosques and Palaces. Connected to the Alcazaba is the Muralla de Jairan built in 11th century descends the valley of the north side and climbs the Cerro de san Cristobal.
The Catherdal was built in 1524 after its former one was wrecked in a earthquake in 1522. It also had cannons on its 4 corners to protect from raids of Turkish and North African pirates. Some of its treasures are works of art, a tabernacle from 18th century and other paintings. Also the statue of St. Indaletius the patron saint of Almeria. It has spacious Gothic ribbed ceiling. Behind the main alter contains the chapel with the tomb of Bishop Villalan and it’s stone roof, windows and arches.
