Located 30 Km from the city of Almeria, the Cabo de Gata is the most important natural park in the entire Mediterranean region due to its size and ecological significance. Visitors can enjoy some spectacular walks, sunbathing on its virgin beaches, bird watching in the marshes and wetlands, water sports, visiting its charming villages, cycling or horse riding.

The Natural Park comprises the entire area between the towns of Cabo de Gata and Carboneras. Along the way can be found a large number of small, particularly charming villages, such as San José, Las Negras, La Isleta del Moro, Agua Amarga and Rodalquilar.

The best beaches are those of Mónsul, Playa de los Muertos in Carboneras, El Playazo de Rodalquilar, La Fabriquilla in Cabo de Gata, and the bays of San Pedro and De Enmedio, along with many others.

Picture by Mihael Grmek

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We love discovering new destinations through their food and drink. In Spain, as well as typical food that you can eat all year round, like paella, tortilla and bread with tomato, you can also find special dishes that are perfect for summer. Ideal recipes for hot days when you really fancy something light and fresh.

Often we believe that to discover great landscapes in the world we must go to remote places, far from our borders, beyond Europe… We believe the more exotic the country is, the easier it will be to find that stunning landscapes, full of life, that we only see in the movies or in our dreams. But nothing could be further from truth because close by, in Cabo de Gata, we can find one of the most important natural ecosystems in Spain, 37k terrestrial hectares and 12k sea hectares of protected area.

We talk about unspoilt white sand beaches, cliffs, caves, coves, desert and mountain range, all in the same spot. The UNESCO declared it a biosphere reserve, it occupies 63 kilometres of coastline and the seabed is listed among the richest in the Mediterranean. This is a fantastic place with endless activities to enjoy nature in Almeria. Here is a list of the most remarkable places in Cabo de Gata.

BEACHES AND COVES

At Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park we can find spectacular cliffs, amazing nature beaches, urban beaches and beautiful coves. The most popular are listed bellow:

Genoveses beach: Located at Campillo Genovés, it is part of the most beautiful bay in the park, situated in a valley which has not being built on, has a fine extension of 1 km of dunes of sand. This is a virgin beach with stunning panoramic views.

Mónsul beach: With a volcanic origin, the Mónsul beach is surrounded by ancient lava flows eroded by the wind and the water during the years until formed the stunning landscape we can see nowadays. This is, no doubt, the most famous beach in the area, as it was featured in several movies such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Playazo beach: surrounded by the mountains in one side and the San Ramón castle by the other, we can find one of the most beautiful beaches in the park and, at the same time, one of the most accessible and comfortable. Furthermore, not far from here and following a short path we can reach the cove Bergantín.

Enmedio cove: One of the most wild and unspoiled coves in the area, it’s surrounded by fossilized dunes and has great views to the Agua Amarga town, in the other side of the bay, and right behind, the Mesa Roldán hill with its lighthouse and castle. As a case in point, New York Times featured the beauty of this cove in a recent article.

Los Muertos beach: The beach with bluer and clearer water in the area. From here you can also access El Peñón and Las Salinicas coves. This is a beach that is difficult to access to, it is also a quite dangerous one, because of hard east winds, and that’s where the name comes from.

TOWNS AND PLACES

El Cabo de Gata is one of the most arid areas in Spain and on of the driest in Europe, but it has a long-standing tradition of fishing, with old charming little towns. The average annual temperature is around 18 and 20 degrees. This is a place to be explored in order to understand the natural wealth in this country.

La Isleta del Moro: A fishing village full of charm, years ago was the cradle of Arab and Berber pirates. This place is perfect to enjoy Mediterranean seafood.

San José: It is considered the capital town for the nature park; San José is also the biggest town inside the park, perfectly located as beaches, coves and nature surround it.

Los Escullos: The writer Pérez-Reverte used this stunning location for his book “The Nautical Chart”. The San Felipe castle, the beaches and fossilized sand dunes surrounding this place should not be missed.

Níjar: This town was able to preserve the tradition of whitewashed houses, keeping the vestiges of Arab heritage. This place is perfect to purchase crafts.

Las Sirenas reef: One of the most photographed and iconic sightseeing places in the park because, in addition to its great beauty, the lighthouse at Cabo de Gata is the exact point where the southeastern part of the peninsula ends.

Image from Emilio del Prado

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DreamBeach Villaricos es un nuevo festival de música electrónica que se celebrará el 9 y 10 de agosto en la playa Villaricos de Almería, en el municipio de Cuevas del Almanzora, con un cabeza de cartel exclusivo: The Prodigy.

El festival nace con la idea de convertir de nuevo a Andalucía en el centro de la escena musical electrónica tras la desaparición del popular Creamfields Andalucía.

Dos días con más de 30 horas de música non-stop que se repartirán en tres escenarios simultáneos en el recinto y un cuarto escenario en la zona de acampada, todo en la playa de Villaricos, un enclave natural de lujo de la costa almeriense

Cartel del DreamBeach Villaricos 2013

Anthony Rother |Christian Wunsch | Ciberpunkers | Dub Elements | Fatima Hajji | Freed Me (Dj set) | Foreign Beggars | Gomad! & Monster | Gonçalo | Hernan Cattaneo | Horacio Cruz | James Zabiela | Javy Union | Josh Wink | Noisia | Pepo | Reeko | Technasia | The Prodigy | Umek |Vitalic “VTLZR” | Dimitri Vegas & Liki Mike | Gareth Emery | Paul Ritch | Mauro Picotto | Pendulum | Amo + Navas | Ben Sims | Camo & Krooked | Cora Novoa | C-System | DJ Murphy vs A. Professor | Eric Sneo | Henry Saiz | Monsta | Nervo | The Zombie Kids |Timo Maas | Toni Varga | Uner

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