Holiday accommodation
La Manga del Mar Menor
Preciosa vivienda en bajo recién reformada ubicada entre dos mares en primera línea del Mar Menor en un maravilloso entorno y urbanización de lujo. Cuenta con todas las comodidades necesarias para pasar unos días de ensueño, con amplia terraza al mar y vistas maravillosas en un remanso de paz pero a su vez con un sinfín de actividades acuáticas.
Holiday accommodation
La Manga del Mar Menor
Descubre un lugar único en el mundo: un bungalow en primera línea de playa con vistas espectaculares y acceso directo a tranquilas orillas. Ubicado en un enclave privilegiado, muy cerca del mar Mediterráneo, te permite disfrutar de la belleza y el encanto de dos mares. Perfecto para unas vacaciones en familia, combina comodidad, exclusividad y un entorno natural inigualable, ofreciéndote todo lo necesario para desconectar y crear recuerdos inolvidables. ¡Tus vacaciones ideales te esperan!
Rural houses
La Torre (Cieza)
Casa antigua rehabilitada, con decoración rústica, situada en la huerta de Cieza, con vegetación de pinos y árboles frutales. Proxima al río Segura y con vistas al Pico del Almorchón.
Rural houses
La Torre (Cieza)
Casa antigua rehabilitada, con decoración rústica, situada en la huerta de Cieza, con vegetación de pinos y árboles frutales. Proxima al río Segura y con vistas al Pico del Almorchón.
Rural houses
La Torre (Cieza)
Casa antigua rehabilitada, con decoración rústica, situada en la huerta de Cieza, con vegetación de pinos y árboles frutales. Proxima al río Segura y con vistas al Pico del Almorchón.
Monuments
Moreras / Bolnuevo (Mazarrón)
Cabezo del Plomo is one of the main settlements of the Neolithic – late Calcolithic age in the peninsula. It is a fortified town located on a plateau at the foothills of the Sierra de las Moreras. In the hill’s higher section the walls and circular cabins can be seen, while in the lower area the remains of a tholos tomb can be found, as an evidence of the megaliths in the area. Archaeological excavations have been performed by the University of Murcia Archaeology Department, directed by Ms Ana María Muñoz Amilibia during different campaigns, from 1979 to 1985. The site has been declared a Site of Cultural Interest. The town’s age can be identified between the end of the 4th millennium to the mid-third millennium B.C. The inhabited part of a 3,200 m2extension is surrounded by a wall in the town’s most vulnerable areas, in the west and south. The wall has been constructed using a technique which involves raising two stone courses filled with smaller rocks. To reinforce the line of defense, the wall was staked by attached defensive beams. The housing is found inside the premises, as circular-shaped homes with rock bases; the roofing would have been made with plant material. Among the materials located in the archaeological excavations, the rock elements for farm work and grain processing have important significance; remains of animal domestication and arrow points for hunting have also been found. This all seems to indicate that the population’s lives were modeled after farming and animal raising, although they also must have practiced hunting and harvesting from nearby areas, including the coast. The Cabezo del Plomo tholos is a funerary monument located outside the walls, at the foot of the populated area, and is the only lasting part of what would have been the necropolis. Built around the mid-4th millennium B.C., it is a trapezoidal chamber, delimited by ortostatos (vertical stones used in its construction) and surrounded by a circular structure. The entire outer part adopts a burial mound shape. It has no entrance corridor and the covering would have consisted of a false dome made of planked stones. The monument was created as an imitation of the circular homes or huts, an aspect which converts these monuments into some sort of “second home”. Some authors consider an eastern influence in the great similarity between these and the tholoi on the other end of the Mediterranean, near the Aegean Sea. They represent a system of collective burials which were successively built inside the funeral chamber. In the ritual, the cadavers were joined with their objects, deposited next to the deceased with the intention of them accompanying their soul to the next life. Some of the objects were functional, which the de-ceased would have used daily, while others served a more magical purpose.
Lugares de interés
Lorquí
Uno de los cabezos que otorgan a Lorquí su particular orografía, plagado de casas-cueva aún en uso y en cuya cima se encuentra un graderío de hormigón armado que facilita la utilización el cabezo como auditorio y permite disfrutar de una bonita panorámica del entorno de la localidad. En la calle del mismo nombre se encuentra una medida ejemplarizante y pionera de urbanismo táctico. El Cabezo de Escipión es uno de los promontorios sobre los que se asienta el núcleo urbano de Lorquí. Debe su nombre a la leyenda según la cual allí murió Cneo Cornelio Escipión, cercado y vencido por las tropas cartaginesas de Asdrúbal Barca, en el 211 a.C. Sobre el mismo se levantó la ermita de la antigua patrona de Lorquí, la Virgen de las Nieves (S. XVI). A su interés arqueológico e histórico, suma su privilegiada ubicación en el centro del casco urbano. En la actualidad, permite magníficas vistas sobre toda la huerta del río Segura, divisándose desde el mismo casi la totalidad del término municipal y núcleos limítrofes al mediodía y a poniente.
Natural areas
Torre Pacheco
El Cabezo Gordo originated in the Triassic, a division of the geological time scale, approximately 250 million years ago. At this time, the Earth underwent a process of transformation in which important geographical features were formed. During the Alpine orogeny, the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided, pushing the accumulated marine sediments, and thus forming mountain ranges, mountains and elevations such as El Cabezo Gordo. In this period, all the world was united forming the supercontinent "Pangaea", which was divided at the beginning of the Jurassic. In the Triassic also appeared the first mammals that evolved from the mammalian reptiles and in the advanced Triassic appeared the first dinosaurs. These data show us the age of this mountain, the same as the Sierra Nevada in Granada. Located in the middle of the coastal depression, this mountain is 312 metres above sea level and 3 km long. It is the only elevation in the municipality of Torre Pacheco and is part of the Betic Mountain Range. It is not of volcanic origin like other elevations of Mar Menor like its islands and El Carmolí. Its nature is limestone and marble. It dominates the Campo de Cartagena from the north and the Mar Menor is 6 kilometres away. El Cabezo Gordo is a protected landscape in the following categories: • In 1998, with the Natural Resources Management Plan for the Open Spaces and islands of the Mar Menor and Cabezo Gordo, it was declared a Protected Landscape (Paisaje Protegido) due to its great biotic, landscape, cultural and paleontological interest. • It is part of the Natura 2000 Network with the category of SCI (Site of Community Importance), especially because it is the habitat of five species of bats. • It is also catalogued as an SGI (Site of Geological Interest), formed by sedimentary rocks such as: limestone and dolomites and metamorphic rocks such as marble. • It is a Wildlife Protection Area. • It is part of the Integrated Management Plan for the protected areas of the Mar Menor and the Mediterranean coastal strip of the Region of Murcia 2019, declared a Special Areas of Conservation (SAC).
Natural areas
Águilas
Lorca
The Regional Park of Calnegre and Cabo Cope occupies a portion of the coastal mountain ranges on the eastern part of our coastline. An amalgam of materials and geological structures converge here. Limestones in Cabo Cope and tilites in Calnegre, as well as fossil dunes, beaches and cliffs are some of its most interesting physical elements. Information and Environmental Dissemination Points: 968 228 937 - 968 228 925
Lugares de interés
La Manga Cartagena (La Manga del Mar Menor)
The town of Cabo de Palos, located around the promontory that gives it its name, was originally a fishing village that today continues to combine this traditional activity with tourism, following the birth and development of La Manga del Mar Menor as a destination for sun and beach tourism. The town is organised around its beautiful port, where the fishing boats are mixed with those dedicated to diving, a growing activity, as the Cabo de Palos and Islas Hormigas Marine Reserve has been recognised as one of the best in Europe. The port of Cabo de Palos also has a peculiarity that gives it charm, because unlike the usual, its dock is introduced into the land, since in its construction in the 70s an area called La Charca, low and flooded, was used to place there a safe port and sheltered from storms. From the port starts the Paseo de La Barra, adorned with the terraces of its cafés and restaurants, an ideal place to taste the typical dish of the area: the caldero, made with rice and fish. At the end of this promenade is the Muro de la Sal (Salt Wall), where the boats used to load the precious product obtained from the nearby Marchamalo salt flats. This is the beginning or end of a path that skirts the cliffs of the cape, offering a spectacular landscape of coves, where the blue of the sea contrasts with the dark tones of the rocks, making them ideal for snorkelling, and which takes us to its most emblematic spot: the lighthouse. The lighthouse, situated on a promontory that rises and sinks into the sea, has its origins in the old watchtowers. The 50-metre high tower stands on a square building, which was designed as a lighthouse keepers' school as well as a residence. Its 80 metres above sea level make it the highest in the east and the icon of the whole area. From this strategic point we can dominate the entire coastline, which, starting from Levante Beach and extending towards La Manga, becomes low and sandy. On the way back to the port you should not miss the Plaza de la Virgen del Mar, which is surrounded by whitewashed houses and on summer nights is full of atmosphere on its terraces.
Monuments
La Manga Cartagena (La Manga del Mar Menor)
The lighthouse of Cabo de Palos is located on an approximately 600 meters-wide small peninsula in the municipality of Cartagena. Back in its time, there was a watchtower where the lighthouse is currently located. The simple structure is defined by its surveillance function as well as the lighthouse-keepers school which was housed in its base. The construction started in 1863 and the lighthouse was first lit on the 31st January, 1865. The building rises 30 meters above sea level, according to Leonardo de Tejada's project. Ashlar stones brought in from a quarry located in the town of Sabinar were used as building material. It has a prism-shaped base of 20 meters on each side and 14 meters high with rusticated edges. In the middle of the base, above an octagonal shaped pedestal rises the 54 meters high tower. It adopts the form of a Tuscan order column and its capital consists of various corbels that hold up a circular cornice with an openwork parapet in a shape of a balustrade. Above, there is a cylindrical tower where the lantern is built in. Nowadays, it has a beacon with a range of 24 miles.
