Holiday Rentals in Spain by the Healing Waters and Climate of Mar Menor
Increasingly a favourite destination for many tourists for their HOLIDAY RENTALS IN SPAIN is the €Warm Coast€ or as it is known in Spanish the Costa Calida. This two hundred and fifty kilometre stretch of Mediterranean coastline is part of the province of Murcia. An ideal destination with plenty of places to visit, it is a region full of historic monuments and fantastic scenery. The fact that the region is so well known as one of the healthiest places in the world with its own micro climate is caused by the location of the mountains and the open land below. Added to the amount of salt and minerals in the air, the region is perfect for those who have problems from psoriasis to arthritis.
The Costa Calida has some of the prettiest beaches on the Spanish Mediterranean coast with fine sand and dunes backed by pine forests. Mar del Menor is the world's biggest swimming pool: the water is almost always 5 degrees Celsius warmer than the Mediterranean Sea and at its deepest it is only seven metres deep. The beaches are all long sloping beaches, making it one of the safest places to learn swimming due to the extra buoyancy caused by the excessive salt in the water.
La Manga on the Mar del Menor is found on the Costa Calida. It is a bay that originally was only closed to the Mediterranean Sea due to a string of islands but as time has passed the gaps between them has slowly closed and filled with sand and vegetation. It as in the early times when the Romans had created healing centres and mud baths for people to enjoy, the healthy area's mud baths were built. Later the Moors continued the tradition but it was in the 1960s that the area became as exploited as it is today.
The La Manga Strip is the tiny strip of land twenty eight kilometres long that splits the Mediterranean from the Mar Menor. Buildings and roads were constructed along the stretch of land reaching out across the bay; where once there were islands now concrete and asphalt have taken their place. There are dozens of hotels, restaurants and bars in place to cater for the ever expanding number of tourists. At the far end of the strip where the bay is almost closed to the Mediterranean Sea are the salt mines that have been working for centuries, still using the same tried and tested techniques that were invented by the Romans and Moors.
The Mar Menor has five islands although at one time a couple of the larger ones had been used for tourists and one was used as a military camp during the Spanish Civil War. They are now uninhabitated. La Mar Menor is also popular for the many water sports and for the fantastic golf courses in the region, It is ideal for your HOLIDAY RENTALS IN SPAIN if your game is golf or if you would like to try out the healing waters of the Mar Menor.
The Costa Calida has some of the prettiest beaches on the Spanish Mediterranean coast with fine sand and dunes backed by pine forests. Mar del Menor is the world's biggest swimming pool: the water is almost always 5 degrees Celsius warmer than the Mediterranean Sea and at its deepest it is only seven metres deep. The beaches are all long sloping beaches, making it one of the safest places to learn swimming due to the extra buoyancy caused by the excessive salt in the water.
La Manga on the Mar del Menor is found on the Costa Calida. It is a bay that originally was only closed to the Mediterranean Sea due to a string of islands but as time has passed the gaps between them has slowly closed and filled with sand and vegetation. It as in the early times when the Romans had created healing centres and mud baths for people to enjoy, the healthy area's mud baths were built. Later the Moors continued the tradition but it was in the 1960s that the area became as exploited as it is today.
The La Manga Strip is the tiny strip of land twenty eight kilometres long that splits the Mediterranean from the Mar Menor. Buildings and roads were constructed along the stretch of land reaching out across the bay; where once there were islands now concrete and asphalt have taken their place. There are dozens of hotels, restaurants and bars in place to cater for the ever expanding number of tourists. At the far end of the strip where the bay is almost closed to the Mediterranean Sea are the salt mines that have been working for centuries, still using the same tried and tested techniques that were invented by the Romans and Moors.
The Mar Menor has five islands although at one time a couple of the larger ones had been used for tourists and one was used as a military camp during the Spanish Civil War. They are now uninhabitated. La Mar Menor is also popular for the many water sports and for the fantastic golf courses in the region, It is ideal for your HOLIDAY RENTALS IN SPAIN if your game is golf or if you would like to try out the healing waters of the Mar Menor.
