our journey to Spain

Where is Costa Tropical?

Costa Tropical is an area (comarca) of Andalusia. Costa Tropical is served by three international ariports: on the East side Málaga, and on the West side Almería, and obviously in the Northern side Granada.

The most Western village of Costa Tropical is la Herradura, belonging to the municipality of Almuñécar, and the Eastern village is la Rabita, belonging to Albuñol. Between la Herradura and la Rabita there are about 70 km of wonderful sea views.

The Northern part of Costa Tropical is comprised between Lentejì in the West and Albondón in the East. From a touristic point of view, the comarcal borders of Costa Tropical are extremely interesting in every direction.

On the East side there is Axarquia, on the North Valle de Lecrín and the Alpujarra Granadina that decrease into the Sierra del Contraviesa (the are of Costa Tropical including Albondón, Albuñol Sorvilán), and on the East side the Alpujarra Almeriense y el Poniente Almeriense.

What to do in Costa Tropical?

Costa Tropical shows an interesting and various landscape. From the Northern part of the area, the mountains gently overlook the coast. Interesting to know: in 2023, Costa Tropical boasts, 12 Blue Flags. What is more, Castell de Ferro is one of the first coastal towns of Spain audited for receiving the label for sustainable tourism (Marca Sostenibilidad Turística) granted by the Institute for the Touristic Quality of Spain (Instituto para la Calidad Turística Española) for the beaches of Cambriles and el Sotillo. Besides one of the main attractive elements of this area is the sea, the varied landscape, the rich culinary offer, the fascinating historical background of Costa Tropical give the possibility to anyone to tailor experiences according to your own taste. Trekking on the mountains, scuba diving, any sports and outdoor activity, wines and typical food tasting, historical and archaeological excursions, but also nice walks in the wonderful botanic gardens, or lazy days spent on the beach. Anyone can find their place in Costa Tropical.

The towns

The municipalities that belong to Costa Tropical are:

Albondón, Albuñol, Almuñécar, Gualchos–Castell de Ferro, Ítrabo, Jete, Lentegí, Los Guájares, Lújar, Molvízar, Motril, Murtas, Otívar, Polopos–La Mamola, Rubite, Salobreña, Sorvilán, Torrenueva Costa, Turón, Vélez de Benaudalla.

Let’s get to the towns

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We would like to thank the members and administrator of Facebook Group Costa Tropical Local Info Group for being, first of all, a beautiful example of social media community. Thank you for supplying the pictures we used in this page and in some other pages of this website/blog. In particular, credits for most of the photos we are using for the launching of this website go to: Michael Shaw, Mariano Prieto Delgado, Sarah King, Jackie Noy, Casa Amigos de Sorvilán, Lonneke van Raijsvijk, Bernand Vandekeere, Anne Clifford, Tuula Salo, Tony Pennell, Cre Steve, Gary Solter, Soor Roos, Dominik Menk, Pete Short, Eliza Bobtail Dolittle, Michael Schwed, Jayne Harvey, Barbie Jackson, Martin Slater, Tom Molin, Montaña Perez Elena, Anne Thomson, David Denny, Rob Bavelaar, Photography Axarquia, Adam McCormack, WillY Bjørnstad, Mia Ekstrand, Vanessa Calderon Heredia, Siru Kinnunen, Rosie Sneider, Sonia Morel, Casa Abubilla Villa, Pia Leissner, Elizabeth Cissie Agnes, Susanne Inghammar, Eduardo Cabrera, Parque de los Pueblos de América.

We hope we haven’t left any names untold. If we did, it was unintentional, so, please, knock at our door.

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