Aguilas.
A town with huge character .Originally more of a frontier town. Used by the Romans as a fishing port to process & ship dried fish sauce to Rome . Inhabited & administered by the Moors, Raided by the Berbers till late 18th centuary . Established as a mining port with strong British interests ,flourishing through 18-1900s mining boom..
Set on an extensive dry plain. Backed by distant high sierras .Built along two bays .Sporting a fishing harbour & marina. Plus a nice new marina Juan Montiel...in the south of town .The waterfront boulevard lined with a row of modest new apartments sporting the ocassional restaraunt.
Overlooked by a quite formidible fort set on a high outcrop..A town with a long & varied history .
A short walk through the cobbled stone streets past very modest dwellings to the back streets of town the railway line ,along which a passanger service still runs 3 times / week ...vacant railway workshops . Abandoned smellters & refining tailing heaps .seemed to display the rugged hard fought battles & fortunes of Aguilas. Now shrugging off its industrial past & slowley recovering with tourisim. agriculture & horticulture.
There was something down to earth , to be liked about Aguilas.A very peacefull evening spent at the hilltop-fort restaraunt. Overlooking the sea,, plains , town. Mucho Saudade,,,,Downing a few Cervezias ,served by a very ."Our place is your place",welcoming ,sympatico staff. Who new they had a very special place to watch the sun go down each evening.

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