Museum of Almería
The Museum of Almería lets visitors literally climb through 5,000 years of history via a 13-metre stratigraphic column in its stairwell.
Destination
Almería Cathedral
Almería Cathedral is Spain’s only fortified cathedral from the 16th century, built with actual cannon holes to defend against pirate raids.
Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park
Cabo de Gata-Níjar’s desert-dry cliffs were born as underwater volcanic eruptions millions of years ago — now Andalusia’s first protected marine-terrestrial park.
Phoenician Shipwrecks of Mazarrón
The Mazarrón shipwrecks yielded the earliest true anchor ever found in the Mediterranean, and a construction technique still debated as Phoenician or local Iberian.
Castillo de San Julián
Spain built this fort around a tower British forces constructed during their 1706 occupation of Cartagena — a project that took over a century to complete.
National Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology
A $500 million treasure secretly flown to Florida under the codename “Black Swan” was won back by Spain in a Supreme Court battle — now on display at this Cartagena museum.
Cartagena Cathedral
Cartagena Cathedral lost its own religious authority to Murcia in 1291, then was shelled into ruin by its own country’s army in 1939.
Roman Theatre of Cartagena
Cartagena’s 7,000-seat Roman theatre was completely unknown until a construction crew stumbled onto it by accident in 1988.
Maro–Cerro Gordo Cliffs Natural Park
Maro-Cerro Gordo’s cliffs span two provinces as one continuous protected landscape, guarding endangered orange coral in its underwater caves.
Castillo de Salobreña
Salobreña Castle was the Nasrid dynasty’s gilded prison for deposed sultans — one was held here for eleven years, and Washington Irving immortalized its legend of three captive princesses.