Costa Calida
The Costa Calida is not just the Mar Menor, or Aguilas, or Mazarron or any of its other summer resort areas. It is also that long section of the Spanish coast where the rugged landscape of the mountains extends its deserted tranquillity to the sea's edge.
It is also a horizon of oleander, prickly pears and wild palmetto and the occasional watchtower in ruins which reminds us of the danger of pirates who sailed to these shores many years ago to fill up their ships with booty. The squawking of the seagulls and the humming of the cicadas are sometimes the only sounds to disturb this bright atmosphere. 
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