What to see in Adra?
Adra, a town located in the westernmost part of the province of Almería. On the border with the province of Granada, on its eastern side it connects with the town of Berja.
The municipality of Abderitano is located in the southeastern foothills of Sierra Nevada and its geography is characterized by the existence of a set of hills and ravines that begin at sea level in the southeast vertex of the term, and that increase in height as further we advance towards the north and west, reaching maximum levels close to 1000 meters.
Abdera (Adra) is a Phoenician foundation, extinguished by the Tartessians and revived by the Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans.
The archaeological remains found in the excavations carried out in the Cerro de Montecristo, the enclave where Abdera settled, also reveal a Punic past from the 4th century BC, although previously it could have been a Greek colony as its name suggests.
At the end of the 2nd century BC. Rome dominates the Hispanic coast and also the Abderitana, which will be included in the province of Hispania Ulterior.
Byzantines and Visigoths exerted their influence on Adra in the 6th and 7th centuries. In the spring of the year 711, Tariq ben Ziyad crossed to the Spanish coast through the Strait of Gibraltar, coming from the Maghreb, with seven thousand men, most of them Berbers, some freedmen and very few Arabs, to begin the occupation of the Peninsula.
The year 1489 marks the end of the Muslim rule in the Peninsula with the capitulations of Baza, in which the delivery, to the Catholic Monarchs, of the cities of Almería and Guadix is agreed; Before the end of the year, Alto Almanzora, the city of Fiñana were handed over, and a short time later La Alpujarra and Adra did so.
From the second half of the 16th century, Adra played an important role in the economy of the region as a means of exporting and importing products through its port; but it will be sugar cane, its cultivation (since 1577) and subsequent transformation into other products, which will be the main engine of Abderitana’s economy until the middle of the 20th century.
In 1833, the Regent Queen María Cristina configured the current Andalusian provinces, definitively ending the previous separation into kingdoms. From that date, Adra ceased to belong to Granada to join the province of Almería.
Currently, the agricultural sector, with intensive agriculture or low plastic, is the economic base of the municipality.
From a tourist point of view, Adra has 13 kilometers of unspoilt beaches and coves. Its tourism development is closely linked to the development of thematic and “quality” tourism based on the valorization of the Historical Heritage.
Source:
adraturismo.com
Adra Town Hall