🏛️ Historical Heritage
🏰 Almería Alcazaba
The largest Islamic fortified enclosure on the Iberian Peninsula, built in the 10th century by Abd al-Rahman III on a hill overlooking the city and the sea.
Castle⛪ Almería Cathedral
A cathedral with the look of a defensive fortress, with battlements and towers, built in the 16th century to withstand Barbary pirate attacks.
Church / Cathedral🏗️ Almería English Cable
A giant iron and timber ore loading pier opened in 1904, from the Eiffel school, which loaded iron from the Alquife mines straight onto ships.
Industrial heritage🏯 Marquises of Cabra Palace
An 18th-century manor in the historic centre of Almería, with a courtyard of Macael marble columns and a Baroque doorway that survived the 19th-century remodelling.
Palace or civil architecture🐟 Torregarcía Roman Salting Factory
Roman industrial remains devoted to producing garum and fish preserves, beside the Cabo de Gata shore.
Archaeological Site🌿 Nature
🏞️ Andarax River
It rises in Sierra Nevada and crosses the province to its mouth beside the capital. Its upper basin is vital for irrigating the Almería Alpujarra and its historic vineyards.
River, lake or reservoir💧 Los Canales de Padules
A beautiful gorge where the Andarax river is boxed in between the slopes of Sierra Nevada and Sierra de Gádor, creating natural pools, waterfalls and intimate stone passages.
Nature🎭 Culture
🐂 Almería Bullring
Opened in 1888, it stands out for its imposing eclectic architecture with Neo-Mudéjar elements and its unusual twenty-sided polygonal structure.
Bullring🎪 Almería Fair
Held in August in honour of the Virgen del Mar. It stands out for its midday fair, which fills the streets of the old town, and for its major evening concerts.
Fair or Festival🎬 Almería Film Festival (FICAL)
An international festival focused on short films and debut features, paying tribute to the province's past as a set for major Hollywood productions.
Fair or Festival💃 Almería Flamenco Festival
The annual gathering for mining song and the Almería taranta, with recitals at the El Taranto club and in the Arab cisterns that house it.
Fair or Festival🏺 Almería Museum
It houses the archaeological remains of the prehistoric cultures of Los Millares and El Argar, two of the most important Copper and Bronze Age sites in Europe.
Museum📷 Andalusian Centre of Photography
A national benchmark devoted exclusively to research into and dissemination of contemporary photography, with temporary exhibitions by Spanish and international artists.
Museum🎭 Cervantes Theatre Almería
Opened in 1921, this beautiful eclectic building is regarded as the city's great temple of the performing arts, with a regular season of theatre, dance and opera.
Theatre🎸 Cooltural Fest
An independent music festival held in August alongside the Almería fair. It stands out for its inclusive stages, beachside concerts and a line-up of Spain's best indie bands.
Fair or Festival💃 El Taranto Flamenco Club
Founded in 1963, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious flamenco clubs in Spain. It occupies 11th-century Arab cisterns with impressive natural acoustics.
Flamenco🎸 La Guajira Flamenco Tablao
At the foot of the Almería Alcazaba, it combines shows of great purity with spectacular views of the floodlit monument.
Flamenco🔥 Los Coloraos Festivities
A historical re-enactment reviving the 1824 liberal landing in Almería, with street theatre, period costume and events throughout the old town.
Fair or Festival🖼️ Museum of Contemporary Spanish Realism
Housed in the former Hospital of Santa María, the MUREC brings together masterpieces of Spanish realism by artists such as Sorolla, Zuloaga and Antonio López.
Museum🍽️ Gastronomy
🛒 Almería Central Market
A jewel of iron architecture. Its ground floor hides a spectacular fishmonger's with the best catch from the Alborán Sea, and its outdoor bars grill the fish you have just bought.
Market🥛 El Americano
A milk-based cocktail exclusive to the city of Almería. Served hot in winter or slushy in summer, it contains milk, sugar, lemon peel, cinnamon and kola nut liqueur, which gives it its unique pink hue.
Gastronomy🛒 Los Ángeles Food Market
A neighbourhood market on the outskirts of Almería that keeps its local bustle intact and has become a temple for food lovers. Famous for its fishmongers and shellfish of exceptional quality at reasonable prices.
Market🏄 Sports Activities
⛳ Alborán Golf
Almería's municipal course beside the Alborán Sea, flat and accessible, with views of Cabo de Gata and three hundred days of sunshine a year.
Golf course Easy🚴 Almería Seafront Cycle Path
A flat ride beside the Mediterranean from the port to Ribera beach, with views of Cabo de Gata and the English Cable pier.
Cycling route Easy🥾 Padules Canales Trail
A six-kilometre circular route through the Andarax river gorge, with walkways, natural pools and a waterfall between rock walls in the Almería Alpujarra.
Hiking trail Moderate🪢 Padules Canyon
A short water descent through the Andarax gorge, ideal for beginners: pools, a waterfall and passages between narrow rock walls.
Canyoning Easy⛵ Sailing in the Bay of Almería
Calm water and steady thermal wind in a bay open to the Mediterranean, with yacht clubs and dinghy schools beside the port.
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