Garrucha
Garrucha is a beautiful and lively old fishing town of just under 5000 inhabitants. It has a lively fishing port as well as a yacht harbour. The fish landed include large red prawns for which the town is famous. The fish are auctioned each day at around 5pm and many are bought by the large number of restaurants which form one side of the 2km long palm tree lined promenade with its famed white marble balustrades. The restaurants and bars with their pavement tables are the ideal place to people watch or be seen either during the day or in the pleasant summer evenings.
Garrucha has several buildings of special interest including the parish church of San Joaquin and the Hermitage de la Virgen del Carmen. There is a tower, built by the founding fishermen in the 16th century to protect themselves from pirates, which has been refurbished and houses a museum. Garrucha has it own blue flag beach. The beach extends over 8km passing Vera beach up to the quiet traditional village harbour of Villaricos in the North and to the beach of Mojacar in the South.
There is a market on Wednesdays and eight festivals throughout the year, including St John's night, June 23rd, which has parties and bonfires on the beach.