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What´s in Costa Calida?

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Costa Calida, is known to be the warmest part of Europe. They fondly called the place by its name as the warm coast for the Spanish. This place amazingly owned the paradise you have not been through. The beauty that lies here is tempting; it has the three S which are the Sun, Sand, and the Sea. All features glorious sights for everybody who planned to visit the it. Costa Calida has the population of almost two million and most of the folks speak their native dialect which is Spanish. There could be no problem about you if you are expert with their language since you can mingle with them any time you want.

Most of the people here love to eat foods coming from their wealthy oceans; they usually catch these fishes from the Mediterranean Sea and immediately cooked it fresh. They hate cooking frozen fish and they mostly prefer those freshly coming from the ocean since they said the taste is much different. Other hauled fish are immediately delivered to their nearby restaurants, making it the best cuisine. As usual, they serve it fresh and unfrozen to their customers.

Costa Calida also features some mines and the beautiful scenery of gardens. It is also in this place where you can find Catagena. In Catagena you will discover various museums and ruins of ports. The midshipman school is also situated here. The beach of Playa Blanca also lies here in Costa Calida nearby the Cartagena side. The amazing mud volcano emerge its beauty and gives mud bath to the tourist who visited the area, after the mud bath you can have your drench in the nearby side of Laguna.

The largest persuasive swimming pool of Costa Calida which is the Mar Menor boasts off its natural beauty. The water in this pool is actually coming from the Mediterranean Sea. No wonder it taste salty, and it has the total vicinity of 170 square kilometers. On the northern part of Costa Calida initiates the ecological reserve while on the southern part set off for the vivid skiing and extra water sports. You will also enjoy the boat tours, restaurants and gaming facilities available in Costa Calida.

By the way, Costa Calida does not only focusing on their fish cuisine. They actually served beefs to their customers and make the dish unusual to your taste. The ways they cook their beef cuisine here just like designing a breath taking paintings. Folks here are very proud of their wealthy cattle ranches where they get their supplies for making the best cuisine of beef in town. Spanish cooks love to blend olive oil to their foods, which make them popular and got the highest expectancy rate when it comes to food around the world. Since accordingly, the olive oil contains a lot of nutritional advantages.

With the unusual ambiance of Costa Calida, you will surely enjoy your stay here. The foods, the beaches, sports everything in here you will surely miss in coming home. And those who have not been here, it´s your time to go and have a happy trip around the place. You will never feel sorry of the money you spent since Costa Calida is a deserving place you go.

About Costa Calida

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COSTA Calida (or warm coast in Spanish) is a 250 kilometer stretch of coastline in the province of Murcia of that country. It has one of the warmest climates in Europe with temperatures rising as hot as 22 degrees Celsius during summer. The lowest winter temperature here is only at 10 degrees Celsius. It is inhabited with oleanders, prickly pears and wild dwarf palms. Seagulls and cicada are typically found here too. Other contrasting features of Costa Calida are the following – it is both dry and irrigated land and it has both plain and mountainous areas.

Here in Costa Calida lies what rural Spain is all about. There are about two million inhabitants here. So if you´re adept at the Spanish language already, you should take a rest here for about a week and admire the locals rush to the shore after fisherfolks have garnered their catch for the day. Locals typically buy fish immediately from the shore and cook the catch from the Mediterranean. These fishes are usually cooked or grilled hurriedly as Spaniards hate cooking frozen food or eating cooked food that was frozen. Some of these fish catch are hauled off by restaurant delivery vans to be delivered directly to the restaurant kitchens.

Elsewhere beyond the coastline, Costa Calida features some mines and scenic vegetable gardens. It is also in Costa Calida that Cartagena can be found. Cartagena has ruins of a 3,000 year old Roman architecture – a theatre. Also found there are Roman museum and port ruins. Because of that, Cartagena is declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The old Roman port is now home to the biggest naval base in Spain. A midshipman school is also located here. Other featured sights in Cartagena are the fort, the walled city, the Castillo de San Felipe (with daily tours) and the Palace of Inquisition. Playa Blanca is one of the beaches in Costa Calida on the Cartagena side. Another feature in Cartagena is the mud volcano. You can have your mud bath there and then rinse your body in a nearby laguna.

Costa Calida is also home to Mar Menor, the world´s largest natural swimming pool. It is actually a saltwater lagoon-cum-lake depending on how you call it. It is more or less part of the Mediterranean Sea if not for the 22 kilometer long sandbar that separates it from the Mediterranean. The sandbar itself has a width of only 1200 meters. Mar Menor´s total land area is 170 square kilometers. The northern part of Mar Menor is an ecological reserve while the southern portion is for fanatics of water skiing and other water sports. There are also boat tours, eco hikes, gaming facilities and restaurants. Mar Menor encompasses four municipalities – Cartagena, Los Alcazares, San Javier and San Pedro del Pinatar.

Real estate developments have continually sprouted all over Costa Calida. Extras not included in the unit package are the following: swimming pool, independent car port, gardens, heater, and split air conditioning system all around your house, fireplace, a few furnishings, window shutters, satellite television and alarm.