Costa Tropical Map
Granada’s coast is short, steep and subtropical. The Sierra Nevada rises behind it fast enough to shelter the shore from northern weather, and the result is a microclimate warm enough to grow mangoes, custard apples and avocados commercially. It is also the only Spanish coast where you can be on a beach and at a ski lift within the same two hours.
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
- Albolote — the Battle of La Higueruela
- Almuñécar — Costa Tropical beaches, a hilltop Moorish castle
- Armilla — trams to the Alhambra, the FERMASA fairground
- Atarfe — The Caliphate-era city of Medina Elvira lies at the foot of Sierra
- Guadix — Europe’s largest inhabited cave-house district, a grand cathedral
- Las Gabias — The Baños de la Gabia is one of the most unusual late-Roman
- Loja — Medieval walls, the Los Infiernos gorge and a landscape shaped by water
- Maracena — Effectively a suburb of Granada now, Maracena is a practical
- Motril — Costa Tropical beaches, 1,000 years of sugar-cane history, a local rum distillery
- Salobreña — a white hilltop town under a Moorish castle
- Santa Fe — ‘the cradle of hispanicity’
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.