Western Mediterranean - Almeria Page

Thursday 21st May

In the morning, we went on a tour to a village called Nijar on this link.

After an abbreviated lunch, I walked up through the Old Town past the Cathedral to the Alcazaba.

The Cathedral from below	The Cathedral from above	Narrow streets to the Alcazaba
Formidable position	A Visigoth tower	Approaching the entrance

This is a huge, largely Moorish castle with a couple of Visigoth towers remaining. From the ship, it looks bigger still but, when in the lower bailey, which is laid out as attractive gardens, one can see that there is another castle behind opposite over a valley. (That is the one with the Christ statue).

The Lower Bailey	The city from the Lower Bailey	Top of the Lower Bailey to the clock tower
From the top of the Lower Bailey	Some paths in the Lower Bailey have water...	...running down to these cisterns
The other castle...	...is across a valley	The Clock Tower from the Lower Bailey

One climbs further up to an inner bailey, where there is archaeological work going on, 13 centuries of jerry-built repairs & mods being examined. One cannot go up the highest tower (yet?) but one can get up to the Clock Tower, where there is a vast view over the city.

The Upper Bailey from the Clock Tower

Archaeological work

More archaeological work

I went down a different way back to the ship.