Almunecar

Almunecar is a municipality inside the Spanish Autonomous Region of Andalusia on the Costa Tropical between Nerja and Motril. It has a subtropical climate. Almunecar lies within the province of Granada, and has around 27,700 residents. Since 1975, the town has grow to be one of the most critical tourist towns in Granada province and at the Costa Tropical; it has exact shipping connections and a soccer stadium.

Almunecar is an vital putting in Laurie Lee's account of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and known as "Castillo" to hide humans's identities. Almunecar's coat of arms, which shows the turbaned heads of three Barbary pirates floating in the sea, turned into granted to the town through King Carlos I in 1526 for its having destroyed a Berber raiding force.

Almunecar started out as a Phoenician colony named Sexi, and even nowadays, some of its population nevertheless name themselves Sexitanos. Under the Moors, Almunecar blossomed as the fishing metropolis of al-Munakkab or Hisn-al-Munakkab. Although the Phoenician and Roman records of the district turned into recognised from Greek and Roman resources it turned into now not till the 1950s that sizable archaeological proof changed into determined.