RODALQUILAR

It boasts an astonishing industrial wasteland featuring former mining installations in the midst of a desolate but rather bewitching landscape. The carriage road can be taken at low speed to Los Albaricoques, a place with a film tourist route leading to various filming locations for Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns inland, as well as to the Cortijo de Los Frailes, a farmhouse now in ruins, the scene of an authentic family tragedy that inspired Federico García Lorca for his Blood Wedding. The mine, built by the British in the early ^20th century, was completed in 1966, with much of the village abandoned once the gold had dried up. On the way to Rodalquilar, the pretty beach of El Playazo with its fort and tower, from Isleta del Moro, on the west side of a superb bay, you can stop off at the mirador de la Amista to enjoy a sublime panorama.