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What to see in Roquetas de Mar

Spain's municipality with the most sunshine hours (3,100 per year) and home to the world's largest greenhouse complex. Its castle, lighthouse and crystal-clear beaches make it a rising tourist destination.

4 Sports Activities3 Culture2 Gastronomy2 Nature2 Historical Heritage

🏛️ Historical Heritage

🏺 Ciavieja Site

An archaeological area in El Ejido with important mosaics from the Roman city of Murgi, occupied from the Neolithic to medieval times.

Archaeological Site

🏰 Guardias Viejas Castle

An 18th-century coastal battery in El Ejido, built to watch the shore against Barbary piracy. It keeps cannons, uniforms and a military museum.

Castle

🌿 Nature

🏖️ Aguadulce Beach

An urban beach of fine sand and calm waters with full services, a marina and a seafront promenade. Ideal for family tourism.

Beach

🦅 Punta Entinas-Sabinar

Salt pans and lagoons among greenhouses, with flamingos, Kentish plovers and one of the best wintering areas for waders in the southeast of the peninsula.

Birdwatching

🎭 Culture

🎪 El Ejido Auditorium Theatre

A modern venue in El Ejido that hosts the prestigious International Theatre Festival, one of the oldest and most respected in southern Spain.

Theatre

🎭 El Ejido International Theatre Festival

Held between May and June, it is one of Spain's oldest performing arts events, with great classics, avant-garde work and international street theatre.

Fair or Festival

🎪 Roquetas de Mar Auditorium Theatre

A cutting-edge, vast performance space seating more than 1,300, a provincial benchmark for major national tours.

Theatre

🍽️ Gastronomy

🛒 Aguadulce Food Market

In this coastal district of Roquetas de Mar, a small neighbourhood market with an exceptional dining atmosphere. Its tapas bars are supplied straight from the market counters, ideal for impeccable seafood in a very family-friendly setting.

Market

🛒 Roquetas de Mar Food Market

One of the most modern and dynamic spaces in the province. After its refurbishment it is a spacious, bright and avant-garde building combining local vegetables and fish with cafés and taverns. Here you can buy the catch of the day at the counter and have it grilled for you on the spot.

Market

🏄 Sports Activities

🤿 Diving at Punta Entinas-Sabinar

A natural site with sandy bottoms and posidonia meadows in shallow water, with salt pans and flamingos just behind the shoreline.

Diving Easy

🤿 Diving at Roquetas and Aguadulce

A beginner area with calm shallow water, artificial reefs and posidonia meadows beside the Punta Entinas-Sabinar site.

Diving Easy

⛳ Golf Playa Serena

A Roquetas de Mar course designed by Pepe Gancedo beside the Alborán Sea, with lakes, palms and three hundred days of sunshine a year for play.

Golf course Moderate

🪁 Kitesurfing at Roquetas de Mar

Wide beaches of the Almería poniente with reliable summer thermal wind, shallow water and schools open all year.

Surf and kitesurf Easy

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