On the southern coast of Spain, and being the prime municipality making up Costa Tropical's colourful vibrancy, Almunecar oozes character with
its narrow ancient roads, veritable architecture and quaint little shops — the type of which you would never find in more touristy parts of this captivating country.
Up and down its
narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the
ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk
roads of the
ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.