4K Drive | Almería to Motril | Andalusia Region | Spain | 2024 | #75

Starting just outside Almería, we drive towards Motril following the highway along the coast.
Filmed in February 2024.
Almería is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. It lies in southeastern Iberia on the Mediterranean Sea. Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. The city grew wealthy during the Islamic era, becoming a world city throughout the 11th and 12th centuries. It enjoyed an active port that traded silk, oil, and raisins. Being adjacent to a small desert, Almería has an exceptionally dry climate by European standards.
Due to its arid landscape, numerous Spaghetti Westerns were filmed in Almería and some of the sets still remain as a tourist attraction. These sets are located in the desert of Tabernas. The town and region were also used by David Lean in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), John Milius in The Wind and the Lion (1975) and others.
One of Almería's most famous natural spots is the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park. This park is of volcanic origin, and is the largest and most ecologically significant marine-terrestrial space in the European Western Mediterranean Sea. [citation needed] The Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park runs through the municipal areas of Níjar, Almerimar and Carboneras. Its villages, previously dedicated to fishing, have become tourism spots. The beaches of Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park are also an attraction.
Almería has one islet that it administers as a part of its territory in the Alboran Sea, Alboran Island. The island has a small cemetery, a harbor, and a lighthouse, built in the 19th century.
In 2000, a team of geologists found a cave filled with giant gypsum crystals in an abandoned silver mine near Almería. The cavity, which measures 8 by 1.8 by 1.7 metres (26.2 ft × 5.9 ft × 5.6 ft), may be the largest geode ever found. The entrance of the cave was blocked by five tons of rocks, and was under police protection (to prevent looters from entering). According to geological models, the cave was formed during the Messinian salinity crisis 6 million years ago, when the Mediterranean sea evaporated and left thick layers of salt sediments (evaporites). The site is currently open for tourists under guided tours.
By land, Almería can be reached by the A-7 Mediterranean Highway, which connects the Mediterranean area with the Spanish A-92 that unites it with the rest of Andalusia. Almería railway station is served by Renfe Operadora with direct rail services to Granada, and Madrid Atocha using a branch off the Alcázar de San Juan-Cádiz railway; the Linares Baeza-Almería railway. In the future, high-speed rail AVE services will link Almería to Madrid via Murcia. The central railway station has been closed for several months and it is not known exactly when it will re-open. Passengers currently start their journey by being bussed a few kilometres to Huercal de Almería station.
Motril (Spanish pronunciation: [moˈtɾil]) is a town and municipality on the Mediterranean coast in Granada, Spain. It is the second largest town in the province, with a population of 60,368 as of 2016. The town is located near the Guadalfeo River and is 69 km (43 mi) from Granada.
Although the exact origins remain unclear, Motril started as a Phoenician enclave,[3] already having existed in Roman times.
By the time of the Christians' conquest of Motril, there were roughly 2,000 inhabitants, mainly subsisting as a municipality through agriculture, fishing and the production of silk and sugar. The city center size was around 3.5 km (2.2 mi). Outside the city there were two suburbs: Al-Majon suburb and al-Couruch, accompanied by the neighborhood of Jandara.
The Rebellion of the Alpujarras was a Morisco uprising in 1569 that finished in 1570 with the Christians' victory. This caused a recession in sugar production, which finished 5 years later with the repopulation of "old Christians". [clarification needed]
By the end of the 1600s, Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza church was built.
Sugarcane was the staple crop, which was processed into sugar in local refineries. The most important of these was "La Casa de la Palma", which became the "Museo Preindustrial de la Caña de Azúcar" (in English, Pre-Industrial Sugar Cane Museum) in 1990.
In 1657, Philip IV granted Motril the title of city, separating its jurisdiction from Granada.
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