{"id":273,"date":"2009-09-03T12:28:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2009-09-04T08:20:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T08:20:56","slug":"salobrena-costa-tropical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/salobrena-costa-tropical\/","title":{"rendered":"Salobrena Costa Tropical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considered by many to be the \u201cJewel of the Costa Tropical\u201d, the Andalucian pueblo blanco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/salobrena.html\" target=\"_blank\">Salobrena<\/a> tumbles down a high rock just inland from the coastline which is known as the Costa Tropical. Domnated by the Moorish castle which looks down on the town from its high position, Salobrena is surrounded by sugar cane plantations, a notable feature of this region of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/spain.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a>. The Moorish castle (Castillo) was built in the tenth century and was a refuge for its Arabic inhabitants during their long struggle with the Christian troops of the reconquest, there is also evidence of Roman structures showing that Salobrena has an even longer history. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/salobrena-weather.html\" target=\"_blank\">Salobrena<\/a> has eight kilometres of coastline including a fine wide beach of greyish sand, it is a popular location for those seeking a quieter holiday away from the main coastal resorts, but is also an ideal base for those wishing to explore the larger towns of Almunecar and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/motril.html\" target=\"_blank\">Motril<\/a> and also the historic city of Granada, which is less than an hours drive away. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/costa-tropical-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Costa Tropical Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considered by many to be the \u201cJewel of the Costa Tropical\u201d, the Andalucian pueblo blanco, Salobrena tumbles down a high rock just inland from the coastline which is known as the Costa Tropical. Domnated by the Moorish castle which looks down on the town from its high position, Salobrena is surrounded by sugar cane plantations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,18,7],"tags":[77,53,78,82,261,297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}