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Once a major trading port and an important staging post for its Moorish occupiers, Almeria is a relatively isolated city sandwiched between the blue ocean and the surrounding mountains. Although it’s suffered its fair share of clumsy urban development, it still has plenty of intriguing hidden corners in its upper areas – especially in the narrow streets surrounding its famous Alcazaba, the largest Moorish palace ever to be built in Spain. As well as exploring this historic area you’ll also want to check out the unusual fortress-like cathedral and a number of well-preserved old churches. Elsewhere you’ll be delighted to discover there’s no shortage of traditional tapas bars and authentic nightlife.
Dating from the 16th century, it was built during an era when the southern Mediterranean was terrorised by the raids of Barbarossa and other Turkish and North African pirate forces, its corner towers once held canons. Situated in the centre is the great altar with its wealth of priceless art work including a tabernacle dating from the 18th century, designed by Ventura Rodriguez, paintings by Alonso Canoñ; a typical Andalusian altar piece made by Araoz and the statue of St. Indaletius, the patron saint of Almeria, sculpted by Saizillo.
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Gastronomic specialities include Gurullos (stew with pasta), Trigo (stew with grains of wheat, pork, beans and herbs), Gachas (hot and spicy clam stew) and Escabeche e Sardines (fresh sardines in hot sauce). As well as cultivating tourism over the past decade, Almeria has also cultivated innumerable plastic covered greenhouses and now produces the bulk of the province's fruit and vegetables, much of it for export.
Inland, Almeria has an almost lunar landscape of desert, sandstone and dried up river beds and has long been a popular choice for filming American style spaghetti westerns, (The all time Peter O'Toole classic, Lawrence of Arabia was also shot here). You can visit mini Hollywood or Yucca City, just outside Tabernas which was the set of A Fistful of Dollars and various other films and is open daily to visitors.
Tabernas
The Tabernas Desert Natural Beauty Spot is located on a strip of 11,625 hectares situated to the north of the city of Almeria, between the Filabres and Alhamilla mountain ranges. It is considered to be the only real desert on the whole European continent and its scenery is tremendously stimulating and startling. With a semiarid Mediterranean climate, rainfall that does not reach 250 mm per year and an average temperature over 17º C, Mediterranean type sand covered gullies have formed, known as "bad lands", with steppes covered in grasses. One of its most exploited economic resources is, curiously enough, the fact it has been used as a set for films.
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The site of many Western movies, northern Almeria is a virtual lunar landscape with canyons and rocky wastes. Clint Eastwood, Raquel Welch, Charles Bronson were all here before the big time movie industry moved on leaving behind their Wild West film set which is now open as a tourist attraction.
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