Costa Cálida Map
Murcia’s coast is called the warm coast, and the reason is the Mar Menor — Europe’s largest saltwater lagoon, cut off from the sea by the 21-kilometre sand bar of La Manga. The lagoon water runs several degrees warmer than the open Mediterranean and barely deepens, which is why this stretch fills with families and the open coast further south fills with divers.
How to use this map
The map is scoped to this coast: the pins are the destinations on it, not the whole of Spain. The filters above narrow it further — show only beaches, or only coves, viewpoints, castles, museums or natural parks.
Town guides on this coast
- Alcantarilla — the Huerta ethnology museum
- Alhama de Murcia — an old thermal-spa town with a hilltop castle and gateway trails
- Archena — The Balneario de Archena has taken the waters since Roman times
- Caravaca de la Cruz — a perpetual Jubilee holy city with a castle-basilica
- Cehegín — red-marble heritage, manorial old town and pilgrimage neighbour Caravaca de la Cruz
- Cieza — a Murcia Segura-valley town famous for its spring floración blossom
- Fuente Álamo de Murcia — the San Agustín church, dry climate and countryside near the Mar Menor
- Jumilla — a Murcia Altiplano wine town famous for Monastrell reds
- La Unión — 19th-century mines you can tour
- Las Torres de Cotillas — A Murcian huerta town where the Segura and Mula rivers meet
- Lorca — an inland Murcia town crowned by the Fortress of the Sun
- Molina de Segura — a Murcia riverside town of huerta and theatre, near the Ricote Valley
- Mula — Holy Week tamboradas drumming, thermal baths and Neolithic heritage
- Murcia — the Baroque cathedral, the Real Casino
- San Javier — warm shallow Mar Menor beaches at Santiago de la Ribera
- Santomera — A lemon-growing town east of Murcia city, with a Moorish watermill
- Torre-Pacheco — an inland Murcia town minutes from the Mar Menor lagoon
- Totana — a gateway to the forested Sierra Espuna mountains, a strong pottery tradition
- Yecla — a Murcia Altiplano wine town of Monastrell reds
For the coast in words, see the full guide, or the region page for its destinations by area. Every Spanish coast is on the main CostaMap map.