Almuñécar then and now

This is what Almuñécar and La Herradura looked like before Playa Tropical was built – and this is what the coast looks like today. The images are freely licensed photos from Wikimedia Commons; the old ones originate from a photo archive at the University of Zaragoza.

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Back then

**Hotel Mediterráneo and the promenade, 1930s.** Photo: Biblioteca de la Facultad de Empresa y Gestión Públicalica Universidad de Zaragoza from Huesca, España. CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped/resized. Original on Wikimedia Commons.

**Almuñécar, 1957.** Photo: Biblioteca de la Facultad de Empresa y Gestión Públicalica Universidad de Zaragoza from Huesca, España. CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped/resized. Original on Wikimedia Commons.

**The beach in Almuñécar, 1957.** Photo: Biblioteca de la Facultad de Empresa y Gestión Públicalica Universidad de Zaragoza from Huesca, España. CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped/resized. Original on Wikimedia Commons.

**La Herradura and the road towards Almería, 1957.** Photo: Biblioteca de la Facultad de Empresa y Gestión Públicalica Universidad de Zaragoza from Huesca, España. CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped/resized. Original on Wikimedia Commons.

**La Herradura, 1959.** Photo: Biblioteca de la Facultad de Empresa y Gestión Públicalica Universidad de Zaragoza from Huesca, España. CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped/resized. Original on Wikimedia Commons.

**The beach and the town, 1967.** Photo: Biblioteca de la Facultad de Empresa y Gestión Públicalica Universidad de Zaragoza. CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped/resized. Original on Wikimedia Commons.

Today

**Peñones de San Cristóbal seen from Paseo del Altillo, 2009.** Photo: Manuti. CC BY 3.0, cropped/resized. Original on Wikimedia Commons.

**Almuñécar from the air, 2021.** Photo: kallerna. CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped/resized. Original on Wikimedia Commons.

**La Herradura from the air, 2021.** Photo: kallerna. CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped/resized. Original on Wikimedia Commons.

**Almuñécar seen from Cerro Gordo, 2024.** Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz. CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped/resized. Original on Wikimedia Commons.

These pictures may be used freely provided the photographer, source and licence are credited. If you have your own old photos from Playa Tropical, please feel free to send them in – the association's own photos from 1969 onwards can be found in Photo Album 1.

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