Almuñécar

Almuñécar is a small-time resort with a shingle beach, popular with Spanish and northern-European vacationers. It's been a fishing village since Phoenician times, 3,000 years ago, when it was called Sexi; later, the Moors built a castle here for the treasures of Granada's kings. The road west from Motril and Salobreña passes through what was the empire of the sugar barons, who brought prosperity to Málaga's province in the 19th century: the cane fields now give way to litchis, limes, mangoes, papaws, and olives.