Location of Almerimar
Almerimar area
Almerimar is situated in the province of Almería, lt’s only two hours from the snows of Sierra-Nevada. Almerimar has a Port-Marina and a fishing harbour.
More people each year are discovering the beaches, the sun and the natural beauty of this area.
If you are looking for a relaxed way of life, free from stress, in a healthy environment, then Almerimar is for you.
Almerimar has an 18 hole course. The club has all necessary facilities, such as the hire of clubs, golf buggies and a shop.
Water sports for the sports enthusiast there are excellent activities available. You can practice all kinds of aquatic sports such as wind-surfing, swimming, fishing, diving, boating and yachting.
As Almerimar is only two hours from the snows of Sierra Nevada it is possible to go skiing in the morning then return to soak up the sun on the beach in the afternoon.
Almeria’s climate is subtropical Mediterranean, warm and dry, and holds the title of being the Andalucian city with the most hours of sun a year, a total of over 3,100. It also has many coastal resorts for you to choose from for your holiday destination including Roquetas de Mar which is a short drive away from Almerimar.
Places of interest near Almerimar
Las Salinas salt flats, Las Almoladeras bird sanctuary, Cabo de Gata lighthouse, Old gold mines in Rodalquilar, The Cortijo del Fraile The Huerbo fortress.
Sorbas town of Iberian Origin situated above a Tributary of the rio de aguas, which its houses overhang. There is a reception centre for visitors to visit the rural tourism adventure caves.
At the nearby Tabernas desert you can visit the Mini Hollywood which was used as the location for the filming of many spaghetti western movies. Many of the film sets have been preserved and are opened for visitors.
Almerimar is 35 mins drive from Almeria airport, along the Mediterranean coast motorway. The province of Almería is the only province in Spain where amazing beaches are shadowed by the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, Europe’s most southerly ski resort, which can be reached in only 2 hours.
Almerimar infrastructure is all in place and the amenities include a supermarket, private schools, doctors surgery, beaches, cafés, restaurants and of course an array of tapas bars. In addition Almerimar boasts a 1100 berth marina, enjoying a coffee (or something stronger) whilst watching the sun go down over the Harbour is a sight you never grow tired of.
Locally (only 7mins by car) there is a ‘Centro Commercial’ with a hypermarket, multi-screen cinema, children’s play area and more restaurants. This is in fact located opposite the main hospital with all modern facilities.
Generally the town attracts a fairly affluent visitor. The town has a lovely mix between many nationalities from most European Countries with the local Spanish having the greatest influence.There is a real feeling of community and with little or no segregation, mingling with the locals is automatic.
Future plans for Almerimar include the refurbishment of the 18 Hole Golf Course in the centre of town, two 5 Star Hotels plus 2 further luxury hotels to add to the existing **** Meliá which has recently opened. One of the new centrally located developments adjacent to the Marina is to include a commercial area of some 6000m2 which will include a variety of modern shops.
Future developments are also impressive which involve careful future planning to ensure the existing natural beauty is not lost and residential areas not overcrowded. Areas or zones have been allocated certain characteristics and specific restrictions by the Mayors office to guarantee future capital growth for the area. Due west of Almerimar is an area zoned for development which will acquire the name “Ensenada de San Miguel”, this will adjoin the new Almerimar Lago location. Further infrastructure will increase as planned with even an Olympic sized rowing canal plus two further 18 hole golf courses along the coast.
Almerimar’s surroundings
Almerimar is not single a sport port; its enclave constitutes an oasis arisen from a barren zone, incomparable and wild beauty.
Like city-planning set, Almerimar represents an authentic symbol of the tourist of future, overtone in its city-planning conception, ambitious development in its supply of services and respectful with the natural surroundings in which Integra.
Immersed in the heat of heart of the Almeri’a West - in the municipal term of the Ejido, approximately to 30 klms. of the capital Almeri’a and surrounded by an interminable plastic sea that each season feeds Europe with hortícolas products of first quality, it is elevated by own right in an credited tourist model of the mediterraneo coast.
If what looks for is relax without feeling isolated, Almerimar him dá the welcome and makes its available all the services of a great city: restaurants, hotels, pubs, supermarkets, stores, laundry, discotecas, medical aid, etc. And, which is but important, the encounter with its simple, proud and loyal people generous, to whom surely never olvidará.Todo the previous thing, along with the possibility of practicing any sport, assures a very pleasant stay to him in Almerimar.
The natural surrounds of Almerimar
In surroundings of incomparable wild beauty, from one of the virgin zones but of Almeria, an oasis of land and full water of life arises.
Almerimar has been nailed in a privileged landscape, integrated by an extensive earth strip that is splashed of small pools, with an extensive botanical wealth, faunística and landscaping.
The Natural Park of Entinas End constitutes a true ecological treasure of individual and exclusive right beauty; it agglutinates in fact three very different landscapes simultaneously and complementarios:la beach, the endorreicas salt mines and lagoons, obtaining the coexistence of species and habitats very differentiated. It emphasizes, by his particular beauty, the variety of species of birds that find shelter and scale here: real ducks colored, ducks spoon, storks, cormoranes, ánades, flamenco rose and a rich catalogue of species.
Like botanical reserve of the Mediterranean scrub, they emphasize the lentisco or the entina, as well as the black sabina or dwells, names all of them that nonsingle give name to the own park, but which they designate other existing human elements in the place (light, topónimos).
The park, in addition to its botanical and faunística wealth, locks up numerous attractive complementary (it fishes, submarine archaeology, inexhaustible photographic subjects, tourist routes).
Almerimar allows the joy of independence without the isolation sensation, because the set of leisure and services has been thought to live all the year and to enjoy its rest.
Almerimar is equipped with a structure of services of great city and with all the advantages for the sport activity and of entertainment of a zone of recreation (restaurants, pubs, hotels, supermarkets, stores, laundry, discotecas, medical aid, etc.
All the previous one, along with the possibility of practicing any sport, assures a very pleasant stay to him in Almerimar.
Beaches of Almerimar and the environment
Almerimar has excellent beaches, existing a clear resistance between which they are Entinas End,se extends throughout a strip of a kilometer of width, between the line of the coast and the reliefs of the Alcores. Landscapingly the pool dune cord is remarkable fixed sprinkled marismeñas that runs parallel the beach. The Light of one of these coastal zones, Entinas End, is an enclave of great beauty where it is possible to be practiced the photography and submarine archaeology. The relevance of the fauna of this zone comes from the coexistence of differentiated habitats, in which the aquatic birds coexist and a rich community of vertebrates).
All of them are clean crystalline water beaches in which the Blue Flags granted by the European Union wave.
Almerimar is not just port, it is an oasis arisen from a barren zone, incomparable and wild beauty.
Almerimar has been designed with tourists in mind and integrates with the natural surroundings.
Immersed in the heart of the Costa Almeria - in the district of the Ejido, approximately 30 kms from the capital Almeria. It is surrounded by a plastic sea of greenhouses which supply Europe with some of it’s finest horticulture.
Almerimar has all the services a tourist could wish for. It has restaurants, hotels, pubs, supermarkets, stores, laundry, discos, medical aid, etc.