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The Costa de Almeria is a place you already know more than you realise. It’s located on the shimmering and reflective Mediterranean Sea - the name comes from that reflective quality as you’ll soon learn - and it’s located in the autonomous community of Andalucia of southern Spain. When you come here you’ll be turning memories to stark reality, even though you have never set foot in Almeria before. How can this be?
A Desert Dreamscape 
The desert dreamscape of the Tabernas Desert , the built movie sets, along with real towns of this magnificent costa are places you’ve known since the 1960s.
You were introduced to this place when Clint Eastwood squinted his thousand-kilometre stare into its sun in his first Spaghetti Westerns.
You’ve known it since its striking landscape became one of the deserts chosen to be the only star in Lawrence of Arabia to meet and surpass the arresting good looks of the blue eyed, blond visage of Peter O’Toole. His freely flowing, dazzlingly white Bedouin garb blew around this very desert, during the train sequences, and inspired a hundred more films and the famous director, Stephen Spielberg, to take up his chosen profession.
Prepare to share footsteps in the precise spots where Eastwood ambled tall, where O’Toole rode horseback confidently, and where all of your other favourite heroes and nasty villains of Westerns, and other popular movies filmed in Europe, served up equally exciting exploits and adventures. But the real life adventures only get better from here.
The Mirror of the Sea
While the interior of the province is famed for its highly popular and strikingly cinematic desert, its coast is equally famed as the “Mirror of the Sea” which is how it got its name, Almeria, in ancient times.
Here you’ll feel like a film star on a getaway yourself.The coastline extends 190 kilometres and is lined with mountains, cliff faces, caves, golden sands, and splendid views of North Africa.
It’s considered the most diverse and natural of the Spanish costas, and you’ll see exactly why when you arrive at the unspoilt beaches. The sand strewn streets of the small towns and charming cities await, so do phenomenal day trips out to some of the most fantastic natural parks and Moorish fortresses in the world.
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