Aguilas

We may start our route through the town beside the beautiful gardens of España square. Toone side the town hall erected in the 19th century and decorated with neomudejar ornaments. Here we may also find a few modernist buildings as well as the parish church of San josé, from the 19th century, which holds the imege of the Virgen de los Dolores, patron saint of the town.

A bronze sculpture known as the Pava de la Balsa was erected in the gardens here in 1887 at the time when the beautiful rubber plants were introduced. This square leads us into the old quarter which still preserves the ambience of typical seafaring districts, devoted to fishing.

The districts devoted by the fortified castle of San Juan de la Aguilas on top of the hill that dominates both the town and its port, and separating the eastern and western beaches. This fortified tower was built around 1579 for the defence of the town and it was later rebuilt in the 18th century.

At the bottom of the hill lies the port of Aguilas in constant activity with its fishing boats and its distinctive black and white lighthouse working since 1859. Very close to the castle is another place of interest the Mercado de Abastos. In the Paseo de Parra is the monument to the railway a testimony of the importance of this means of transport a symbol of wealth and economic prosperity for the locals in times past. The locomotive was built by the British at the turn of the century and ran on the first railway line between aguilas and Lorca in those years of intense commercial activity when the prosperous local mining industry was at its height.


Things to do in Aguilas:

 

Coastline - Craftwork - Festivities - History - Location - Resorts -

San juan de las aguilas castle - Sports - The archeological museum -

The Carnival Museum - The Casino - The Cope Tower -

The Francisco Rabal Cultural Centre - The harbour and fish docks -

The Parish church of San jose - The Plaza de espana gardens -

The Punta Negra Lighthouse - The railway monument

The railway museum - The Roman baths - Torre de las Palomas

ANOTHER VILLAGES IN MURCIA: