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What to see and do in Alhama de Almería

What to see and do in Alhama de Almería (Alpujarra Almeriense, Almería): 8 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 4 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Alhama de Almería

Alhama de Almería
Village
Municipality whose name comes from the Arabic 'al-hamma' (baths), for its thermal waters known since Roman times. The Balneario de San Nicolás, built in 1874, still draws on that spring. It was the birthplace in 1837 of Nicolás Salmerón, who would go on to head the First Spanish Republic in 1873.
Castillo de los Castillejos (Alhama de Almería)
Monument
13th-century defensive fortress with towers, within the municipal area of Alhama.
Puente de los Imposibles
Monument
19th-century Neoclassical bridge over the Andarax river.
Balneario de San Nicolás
Monument
Thermal spa opened in 1874, in neoclassical style, with marble basins, showers and steam baths; for decades it was the center of social life in Alhama.
Ermita de Ánimas
Monument
1865 hermitage in the shape of a qubba with a hemispherical dome, which houses an image of the Virgen del Carmen.
Sendero PR-A 359 y Sierra de Gádor
Nature
The municipal term looks out onto the Sierra de Gádor, declared a Special Area of Conservation, and has the officially recognized PR-A 359 trail, an 11.4 km circular route.
Necrópolis megalíticas de Alhama y Loma de Galera
Historical milestone
The municipality preserves two megalithic necropolises from the third millennium BC: that of Loma de Galera, with 38 tombs, and that of Alhama, with 55 tombs and three stone alignments, in addition to Roman and Copper Age sites.
Nicolás Salmerón
Curiosity
Alhama de Almería is the birthplace of Nicolás Salmerón, professor and president of the First Spanish Republic in 1873.