🏛️ Historical Heritage
🌉 Roman Aqueduct of Almuñécar
A set of five aqueduct sections from the 1st century AD, among the best preserved in Spain and still in use to irrigate the tropical plain.
Archaeological Site🌿 Nature
🏖️ Cantarriján Beach
On the provincial border with Málaga, inside the Maro-Cerro Gordo site, a beautiful sheltered beach with transparent waters much valued by naturists.
Beach🏖️ La Herradura Beach
A beautiful natural horseshoe-shaped bay that calms the currents, making it one of the best areas in Andalusia for diving and kayaking.
Beach📍 Maro Cliffs and Seabirds
A site where peregrine falcons and crag martins nest on the vertical walls, with shearwaters and gannets passing offshore during migration.
Birdwatching🏖️ San Cristóbal Beach
Almuñécar's large urban beach, bordered by a busy promenade and crowned at one end by the San Cristóbal rocks.
Beach🎭 Culture
🏺 Seven Palaces Cave Archaeological Museum
A remarkable museum in Almuñécar set inside an ancient Roman vaulted structure, the basements of the forum, with Phoenician, Roman and Al-Andalus pieces.
Museum🍽️ Gastronomy
🛒 Almuñécar Municipal Market
The gastronomic epicentre of the Tropical Coast. It combines fresh fish from the Alborán Sea, such as Motril shrimp, with stalls overflowing with locally grown custard apples, mangoes and avocados.
Market🏄 Sports Activities
🤿 Diving at La Herradura
A sheltered Tropical Coast bay with depths to forty metres, submerged caves and the Cerro Gordo site. Granada's best area for first dives.
Diving Easy🤿 Diving at Punta de la Mona
The finest dive sites of the Tropical Coast: vertical walls dropping to forty metres, caves, gorgonians and exceptional biodiversity at Cerro Gordo.
Diving Moderate🥾 Maro Cliffs Trail
A route between Granada and Málaga along the edge of the natural site's cliffs, dropping down to virgin coves and the Maro waterfall.
Hiking trail Moderate🪂 Paragliding at Otívar
A take-off above the Tropical Coast with flight between the sierra and the sea, one of the biggest vertical drops in Andalusia and a landing beside the beach.
Free flight Hard🪢 Río Verde Canyon
The most famous descent in Andalusia, at Otívar: abseils of up to twenty-five metres, polished rock slides and jumps into turquoise pools.
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