At Spain’s southernmost corner of the Province of Alicante, the municipalities of Pilar de la Horadada and Torre de la Horadada occupy a strategic position that has connected travellers, merchants and armies for more than two thousand years. Today they are known...
Few places in Europe have been shaped so completely by geology as La Manga del Mar Menor. Stretching for approximately twenty-two kilometres along the coast of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, this narrow strip of sand separates the Mediterranean Sea...
Few places in Europe combine such an extraordinary concentration of history, nature and environmental significance as the Mar Menor. Located in the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, this vast coastal lagoon covers approximately 135 square kilometres,...
San Pedro del Pinatar occupies one of the most unusual geographical positions in Spain. Situated in the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, it marks the northern entrance to the Mar Menor, Europe’s largest saltwater lagoon, while also facing the open...
Unlike many of Spain’s historic cities, Murcia was not founded by the Romans. The city was established in 825 by the Umayyad Emir Abd al-Rahman II, who selected the fertile plain of the Segura River to create Madinat Mursiya, a new administrative and...
