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This is a unique stretch
of near-virgin coastline in Malaga, which runs for 12km east
of Nerja to La Herradura.
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Increasingly popular
among foreign residents. An attractive costal resort town
that is particularly popular in the summer with Spanish holiday
makers.
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In the
foothills of the Sierra Almijara on Granada's Costa Tropical
is the seaside resort of Almuñécar.
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The jewel
of the Costa Tropical Salobrena is a whitewashed township
clinging to a huge lump of rock.
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Designated
a natural park in 1989, a rugged and spectacular limestone
mountainous region in the north of Granada province.
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Designated
a natural park in 1989, the 12,128ha Sierra de Huétor
is only a few km northeast of the provincial capital of Granada.
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Leaving behind the impressive wooded Sierra
de Huétor Natural Park, just a few kilometres east
of Granada city, the terrain becomes increasingly dusty and desert-like.
Guadix is located in this dry landscape and is
unique for its extraordinary area of caves, where a surprisingly
high number of the town's inhabitants still live.
A similarly intriguing place is 20km south of Guadix
in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada; the village of La
Calahorra may be unremarkable in itself, but overshadowing
it is the immense bulk of one of Spain's best castles. It hides
a remarkable Renaissance interior, fashioned by Italian architects
and craftsmen in the early 16th century under the direction of a
nobleman linked to the Catholic Monarchs.
Moving further east from Guadix is the Sierra
de Baza Natural Park, which has extensive tracts of pine
forests inhabited by more wildlife than people. It has excellent
views from its barren limestone peaks that are covered with snow
in winter. On the border with neighbouring Jaen province and the
Sierra de Cazorla is another protected area, the
mountainous Sierra Castril Natural Park, with a
spectacularly eroded limestone landscape of deep, sheer-sided gorges
and waterfalls. Its centre is Castril, a village overlooked by a
huge rocky outcrop, topped by a castle, known as the Peña
de Castril Natural Monument.
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