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Almunecar

Almuñécar (Spanish pronunciation: [almuˈɲekaɾ]) is a municipality inside the Spanish self reliant location of Andalusia at the Costa Tropical among Nerja (Málaga) and Motril. It has a subtropical weather. Almuñéautomobile lies in the province of Granada, and has around 27,700 citizens (2012).[1] considering the fact that 1975, the town has become one of the most vital traveler cities in Granada province and at the Costa Tropical; it has desirable transport connections and a soccer (soccer) stadium.

Almuñécar is an vital setting in Laurie Lee's account of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil struggle in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and called "Castillo" to hide human beings's identities.

Almuñécar's coat of hands, which suggests the turbaned heads of three Barbary pirates floating in the sea, became granted to the metropolis by way of King Carlos I in 1526 for its having destroyed a Berber raiding force.

Politics
Trinidad Herrera is the primary female to be elected mayor of Almuñecar. Although Juan Carlos Benavides' Covergencia Andaluza birthday celebration won the maximum popular votes, he didn't form a coalition. The town council elected Herrera, nearby chief of the Partido famous, on 11 June 2011.

History
Almuñécar commenced as a Phoenician colony named Sexi, and even nowadays, some of its inhabitants still call themselves Sexitanos. Below the Moors, Almuñéautomobile blossomed because the fishing city of al-Munakkab (المُنَكَّب) or Ḥiṣn-al-Munakkab (حصن المنكب). Despite the fact that the Phoenician and Roman history of the district was acknowledged from Greek and Roman resources it changed into no longer until the Fifties that giant archaeological proof changed into discovered.

Phoenician
Most important article: Sexi (Phoenician colony)
The Phoenicians first set up a colony in Almuñécar in approximately 800 BC and this advanced for 6 hundred years into an important port and city with the call of Ex or Sexi and with a massive fish salting and curing industry that changed into a first-rate dealer of Greece and Rome. In addition they provided a prized fish paste referred to as garum made from the intestines of small fishes by a process of fermentation.[2][3] Archaeological proof comes mainly from Phoenician cemeteries, the sooner Laurita necropolis on the hillside at Cerro San Cristobal and the later necropolis at Punte de Noy. An extensive collection of Phoenician grave items and different artifacts is on show within the city museum located on the castle of San Miguel and within the 'Cueva de Siete Palacios'.

Roman rule
The Romans got here to southern Spain at the time of the second one Punic conflict between Rome and Carthage in 218 BC as part of their campaign to subdue the Phoenician settlements along the coast. For the duration of seven-hundred years of Roman colonial rule the metropolis and its enterprise prospered, and in 49 BC the municipality (considered one of 20 towns in Spain honoured at that time) turned into given the title Firmium Julium Sexi in reputation of the metropolis's loyalty to Rome.

Important proof of the fish salting and curing industry become exposed for the duration of excavations inside the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties inside the big Majuelo Botanical Gardens. These found out the great volume of the rebuilding and modernising of the enterprise below Roman influence. A segment of the website has been carefully conserved, giving some concept of the size of the industry. This enterprise required not best huge portions of fish and sea salt, produced in lots of places alongside the coast, but additionally a regular supply of sparkling strolling water.

To satisfy this demand the Romans built in the 1st century advert four miles of water conduit inside the valleys of the Rio Seco and the Rio Verde, consisting of five substantial aqueducts. All, remarkably, are still standing and 4 of them are nonetheless in use after 2,000 years – adapted by the Moors over the centuries to serve the needs of crop irrigation. The Roman water supply also served the city and recent excavations inside the city centre have uncovered the fifth aqueduct and the Roman baths.

The Romans were probable the first to give a boost to the castle of Saint Miguel, although common rebuilding has obliterated most of the very massive Roman fortifications. These protected a bridge from the castle to the 'Peñon del Santo' with a massive 100 foot (30 m) high arch that survived until at least 1800.

Simply under the castle on the landward side is the 'Cueva de Siete Palacios', which interprets as 'Cave of the Seven Palaces'. But, it is not actually a cave, as an alternative it's miles the largest remnant of a Roman palace yet observed in Almuñévehicle, having survived for hundreds of years as 'social housing' till the 'cave dwellers' have been re-housed in the Seventies. Most effective then did its proper origins turn out to be apparent. It now houses the city museum.

Other essential Roman stays within the district consist of a Roman bridge at Cotobro and Roman tombs in several locations.

Visigothic rule
With the decline of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, Germanic peoples, which include the Visigoths, crossed the Pyrenees mountain variety into the Iberian peninsula. By using 456 the Visigoths emerged as the dominant energy, and expanded their territory onto the southwestern Mediterranean coast. But, Hispania remained relatively Romanized under their rule. The Visigoths adopted Roman culture and language, and maintained most of the vintage Roman establishments,[4] even though a good deal of the economic shape collapsed, and at Almuñévehicle the fish curing enterprise declined rapidly. The Catholic bishops had been the competitors of Visigothic power and lifestyle till the stop of the 6th and beginning of the 7th century—the length of transition from Arianism to Catholicism in the Visigothic nation.

Muslim rule
The primary Muslim invasion of southern Spain came in 711 advert at or close to Gibraltar. At Almuñécar, the city recollects 15 August 755 whilst Umayyad Abd ar-Rahman I of Damascus, the founder of the Emirate of Cordoba, arrived from North Africa to establish his Moorish country. The Moors introduced the developing of sugar cane and sustained the fishing industry; some of the streets and buildings of the antique town had been developed by using the Moors. The castle remained the stronghold of the city and the seat of presidency and its walls have been reinforced. Substantial dungeons have been built for those out of favour with nearby rulers, however additionally baths for the usage of the social elite.

The cross on Peñon del Santo, the rock at the vintage harbour front, marks the defeat of the Arabs, their give up at Almuñéautomobile, and the beginning of Christian rule in 1489.

Christian rule
Following the restoration of Christian rule, new architectural statements had been made – as an example the development of a new church changed into started out in 1557 and finished to the latest design in 1600, the first Baroque-fashion church within the province of Granada. The vintage metropolis become additionally Christianised (or perhaps paganised – by using the Goddess of fertility herself), as inside the constructing of the water fountain on the Calle actual (Royal road), dated to 1559 and with the royal cypher above, however at that time the use of the present Roman water deliver from Las Angosturas first set up 1500 years in advance.

The fortress changed into once more extensively rebuilt and located underneath the patronage of San Miguel. It was rebuilt and closely fortified by way of the Christian King Charles III and last defended (with the aid of the French) in the Napoleonic Wars. Just one tower turned into partly destroyed but also maximum of the inner homes. This become the paintings of the crew of the British vessel, HMS Hyacinth, acting in collaboration with Spanish partisans from Nerja on 27 might also 1812. They brought on the French garrison to escape after which tried to render the citadel unusable however with little achievement – because of the gunpowder being damp. However, the citadel become finished as a navy stronghold and following a cholera outbreak in 1830 the castle became the city cemetery, from which use it changed into cleared in 1986, to permit the restoration which is still in development.

In 1562, a Spanish fleet sank in a typhoon in los angeles Herredura Bay.

Gastronomy
Almuñéautomobile's gastronomy focuses specially on fresh fish and tropical fruit. Monkfish (rape), pink sea bream (besugo), squids (calamares), grouper (mero), croaker (corvina), and shellfish paella are standard examples of local seafood. There are several eating places subsequent to the beach wherein food featuring those can be eaten al fresco (at tables outside) inside the sea breezes. Pub crawls with stops at numerous bars to attempt exclusive tapas are also famous.

The soil in the area may be very fertile, and because of the semi-tropical weather, tropical fruits may be grown here. The maximum amazing are mangos, avocados, loquats, and cherimoyas, however it is also smooth to locate papayas, guavas, lychees, kiwis, figs and even prickly pears, the fruit of the Opuntia ficus-indica cactus, that are used to make ice cream and jams sold in numerous local espresso stores. Till the Sixties, Almuñéautomobile had an essential position as a sugar cane manufacturer, but an global boycott and government intervention ruined the twelve-century-antique industry.

A few common dessert cakes still made domestically encompass:

Cazuela Mohína: an almond-based cake made with brown sugar, sesame and aniseed has a Mozarab starting place
Torta de Al-Hajú: an almond cake wrapped in wafers and honey, has an Arabic origin
Merengazo: a sponge cake topped with egg white meringue, has a Jewish beginning

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