Roquetas De Mar
With its Phoenician origins and originally called Turania by the Romans, Roquetas is one of the top tourist areas in the region. It has a population of 70,000 registered and 85,000 living in, and is about 20km from Almería, and is located at the foot of the Sierra de Gádor in the Gulf of Almería. The beaches and large fishing fleet are main revenue sources, and inland there are saltworks which were first exploited by the Moors.
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The town is dominated by the silhouette of the Santa Elena Lighthouse and is divided between the old part with the white washed houses and Castle of Santa Ana, Watchtower of Los Cerillos and the plaza with the Church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario, and the more modern cosmopolitan tourist area with the long beaches and clean waters.
Overall they get a good balance between the traditional and the modern, but it is the old festivities like the Fiesta de las Moragas which takes place on the beach every 29 December and the fiesta at the end of July for the Virgen del Carmen & Saint Anne.
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Botanical Gardens
“El Jardín del Sol” is situated in the plazas of Bonn and Concordia. It opened in February 2009 with 200 species of plans in a 4,500 square metre area. The plants are in a number of zones: tropical plants, desert plants, Mediterranean woodland plants, kitchen garden and orchard plants, and plans local to Roquetas.
All the plants are classified and numbered.
Local towns that are worth a visit are Énix, Féloix and Vícar.
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