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Salobrena - once
known as little Cuba - because of the former sugar cane plantations and
refineries in the area has now been transformed into a thriving holiday
area known mostly to the Spanish who come down from Granada to the coast
for the weekends. The result is a holiday destination that is still typically
Spainish in an area that is not over commercialised.
The Alpujarras - the renowned conservation
area is a short 20 mins car drive away. Granada and the spectacular Alhambra
Palace is less than an hour away. Salobrena itself has a wealth of real
Spanish tapas bars and restaurants serving authentic cuisine, at Spanish
prices. The seafront has many restaurants with tables on the sand. Salobrena
has been sympathetically developed over time so the old town with its
Moorish castle is not dwarfed by newer buildings. The whole area is low
rise not high rise. There are still many locals farming and raising goats
on the hillsides as they have always done. The area around Motril has
extensive market gardens growing fruits and vegetable for export. The
region benefits from a micro climate with the mildest winters of anywhere
on mainland Spain, yet the summers are tempered by a cooling breeze during
the day. Water is in plentiful supply; all the reservoirs are fed by springs
and melt waters from the Sierra Nevada
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