Granada Province - Costa Tropical

Villages

Almuñécar		La Herradura
Increasingly popular among foreign residents. An attractive costal resort town that is particularly popular in the summer with Spanish holiday makers. More >		Enjoying a beautiful setting, this pretty village overlooks a horseshoe-shaped bay. More >
Motril		Salobreña
Motril is the largest town on the Costa tropical with 50,000 inhabitants. More >		The jewel of the Costa Tropical Salobrena is a whitewashed township clinging to a huge lump of rock. More >

Parks

Acantilados de Maro-Cerro Gordo		Peñónes de San Cristóbal
This is a unique stretch of near-virgin coastline in Malaga, which runs for 12km east of Nerja to La Herradura. More >		In the foothills of the Sierra Almijara on Granada's Costa Tropical is the seaside resort of Almuñécar. More >

Costa Tropical, being less well known than its more popular neighbour, the Costa del Sol, is no disadvantage for Granada's coastline with its subtropical climate. Its beach resorts still retain a Spanish character and it boasts some spectacular cliffs, interspersed with secluded coves and sandy beaches, particularly in the protected coastal zone of Acantilados de Maro-Cerro Gordo Natural Area, which it shares with Malaga province.

Almuñécar is the resort with the most attractive beaches. The rocky outcrops that divide the beaches have been designated a protected area, the Peñónes de San Cristóbal Natural Monument. Near Almuñécar is La Herradura, a popular watersports resort set in a secluded bay. The coastal town enjoying the most spectacular location is Salobreña, with a Moorish castle and the town's whitewashed houses atop an imposing pinnacle protruding above sugar cane plantations and overlooking the sea.