Mazarron

Mazarron is a municipality inside the self sustaining community and province of Murcia, southeastern Spain. The municipality has an area of 318.7 rectangular kilometres, and a population 2008 of greater than 34,351 populace. A navy citadel named C1 or Castillitos-small castles built among 1930 and 1936 in some unspecified time in the future of the reign of Alfonso XIII of Spain and the Second Spanish Republic exists as a traveller attraction on the antique avenue among Mazarron and Cartagena, and although it is obtainable from the Bay of Mazarron it isn't always in the municipality itself.

The Bay of Mazarron is sheltered by way of the remaining foothills of the Sierra de la Almenara, a mining location for the motive that Carthaginian era. Over 35 km of beaches, unspoiled coves and rocky sea beds. Due to the character of the encompassing rocks, but, the seashore at Bolnuevo is of coarse grit, as are most of the seashores alongside this part of the coast. The Torre de los Caballos on Los Caballos peak have been constructed for the town's safety in opposition to pirates from the mid-sixteenth to the early 18th centuries.

The financial improvement of the early twentieth century induced the improvement of emblematic buildings within the style called Murcian Modernism, collectively with the Mazarron Town Hall and the previous Cultural Athenaeum. The weapons in Cartagena were constructed to protect the important port of Cartagena inside the 20th century, these guns along the citadel and different coastal defences, stand fifty six toes lengthy, weighing a whole of 88 tons each and being capable of fireplace at various a few 20 miles.