Motril - A Modern Town with Great Charm and Beauty


☞ Explore the natural beauty of the adorable white villages on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
☆ Day Bus Trip to the Alpujarras: venture into the mountains and visit the white charming villages.
☆ Horseback Riding Through the Alpujarra: or you can discover the beautiful landscapes on horseback.
☆ Day Bus Trip to the Alpujarras: venture into the mountains and visit the white charming villages.
☆ Horseback Riding Through the Alpujarra: or you can discover the beautiful landscapes on horseback.
Motril is a modern town with wide streets and all the services you would expect for a population of this size. Still, it has great charm and beauty.

It is located at the foot of the Sierra de Lújar and surrounded by a fertile plain at the mouth of the Guadalfeo River.
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The tranquility of its beaches, its exotic landscape and the mountainous enclave isolating it somewhat from the rest of the world is what makes it special.

Motril achieved the height of its prestige in the nineteenth century with the development of sugar cane production.
However, the crisis in the sector in the twentieth century brought an end to all its sugar factories.

A walk through its streets will allow you to see many of its former factories, some of them long since forgotten and in ruins.
If you are particularly interested in the history of Motril, then a visit to the Sugar Cane Interpretation Centre or the Sugar Cane Pre-Industrial Museum in the beautiful Casa de la Palma is well recommended.

You can also visit the Bodegas Ron Montero, where this excellent and unique Spanish rum has been produced for 50 years.
You can taste here a flavour of the Caribbean in Southern Europe, in the southernmost town of the Old Continent.

It is an irony of destiny that it is now from across the Atlantic that this Motrilian distillery imports its raw material: sugar cane.
The artistic and cultural heritage of Motril includes several churches, the Iglesia Mayor de la Encarnación, which stands out for being the oldest structure in the town.

There are also some seventeenth-century palaces, such as the Town Hall, built in 1631, which displays a coat of arms on its façade granted by King Philip V and in its rooms some beautiful Mudejar-coffered ceilings.
Today, Motril maintains an important agricultural and commercial activity thanks to the cultivation of tropical fruits.

Take a wander through the town, find a terrace to sit in and enjoy a cold beer accompanied by seafood or pescaíto (fish tapas) of the area; this is a pleasure not to be missed.
See how the fishermen offer fresh fish at sunset, and observe how the auction works in the fish market; it will doubtless prove to be an unforgettable experience.
Villages Near Motril - Torrenueva, Carchuna and Calahonda

☞ Explore the natural beauty of the adorable white villages on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
☆ Day Bus Trip to the Alpujarras: venture into the mountains and visit the white charming villages.
☆ Horseback Riding Through the Alpujarra: or you can discover the beautiful landscapes on horseback.
☆ Day Bus Trip to the Alpujarras: venture into the mountains and visit the white charming villages.
☆ Horseback Riding Through the Alpujarra: or you can discover the beautiful landscapes on horseback.

Carchuna
Carchuna is located in the middle of an extensive alluvial plain occupied today by a plastic sea of greenhouses, there is an old castle town going back to the time of Carlos III.Enclosed and circular, it was one of the defensive constructions that this monarch built to protect the coastal area.
Carlos III, from which Carchuna receives its name, ordered its construction in 1783.

Calahonda
Calahonda is a fishing village very close to Carchuna, in the direction of Almeria.Formerly used as a port for Motril, it has one of the best beaches in this area of the Tropical Coast, with crystal-clear waters and ample depth.
Torrenueva

It is also located near Carchuna, but in the opposite direction to Calahonda.
Torrenueva hosts a look-out tower, the New Tower or the Peseta, dating from the beginning of the sixteenth century, which has been recently renovated.
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Opinions about Motril of Granada
Nice place but gravel beaches

