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Garrucha is a seaport of south-eastern Spain on the Mediterranean Sea and the right bank of the river Antas. In 1998 the town had a population of 5000. The harbor of Garrucha, which is defended by an eighteenth-century castle, affords shelter to large ships, and is the natural outlet for the commerce of a once thriving agricultural and mining ...
Chanca, a group of houses carved into rocks. Castle of San Cristobal, now in ruins. It is connected to the Alcazaba by a line of walls. Museum of Almería. Includes findings from Prehistoric, Iberic, Roman, Greek ages and Muslim objects, mostly from the Alcazaba. Paseo de Coches, a modern seaside promenade with gardens and palms.
Poniente Almeriense is a comarca in Almería, Spain.It is sometimes also known as the "sea of plastic" (Mar de plástico) due to the numerous greenhouses that cover the area.
Castillo de las Escobetas ("Castle of the Nazarene") is located 3.25 miles (5.23 km) northward of Cantal Point, [1] in the town of Garrucha, Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. The fishing village of Garrucha suffered at the hands of Berber pirates until the year 1766 when barracks were built at Escobetas, a ...
Location of the province of Almeria (Spain). The intensive agriculture of the province of Almeria, Spain, is a model of the utilization of highly technical means to achieve maximum economic yield based on the rational use of water, use of plastic greenhouses, highly technical training and high levels of employment of inputs, applied to the special characteristics of a particular environment.
Provided not only with walls and towers but also with squares, houses, and a mosque, it was to be the seat of the local government, commanding the city and the nearby sea. The complex was enlarged under caliph Al-Mansur and again under Khayran as-Saqlabi [ ar ] , the first king of the independent taifa of Almería .
Guadix (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaˈðiks]; Local pronunciation: [waˈðih]) is a city and municipality in southern Spain, in the province of Granada.. The city lies at an altitude of 913 metres, [2] in the centre of the Hoya of Guadix, a high plain at the northern foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
The garrucha is a small rifled or smoothbore pistol, similar to a derringer, which was common in Brazil and Argentina in the early 20th century. Even though single-shot variants exist, it is usually double-barreled [ 1 ] with the barrels in a side-by-side layout, rather than the more common over-and-under layout of many derringer designs.