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What to see and do in Vera

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

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Curiosities · 2 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Vera

Vera
Village
Town that surrendered to Fernando the Catholic on the 10th of June 1488, destroyed by a violent earthquake in 1518 that caused about 150 deaths, and refounded in 1520 with the walled square layout that its old town still preserves.
Iglesia fortaleza de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación (Vera)
Monument
Fortress-church built between 1521 and 1524 after the 1518 earthquake, declared a Bien de Interés Cultural.
Terremoto de Vera de 1518
Historical milestone
An extraordinarily violent earthquake devastated Vera in 1518 and caused about 150 deaths, forcing the town to be refounded two years later with a new walled layout.
Turismo naturista en Vera
Curiosity
In 1979 Spain's first nudist campsite (Camping Las Palmeras) opened at Vera Playa, and in 1989 the country's first naturist hotel (Vera Playa Club).
Plaza de toros de Vera
Monument
Neo-Moorish-style bullring built in 1879, which houses a bullfighting museum.
Casa Orozco
Monument
19th-century neoclassical mansion built by a family of mining entrepreneurs from Vera.
La capitulación de Vera (1488)
Historical milestone
Vera surrendered to Fernando the Catholic on 10 June 1488; in the 19th century the municipalities of Garrucha and Pulpí split off from its territory, between 1861 and 1877.
Laguna de Puerto Rey
Nature
Coastal wetland of Vera, next to the Salar de los Canos and the most extensive Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows in Almería.