Puerto Deportivo De Garrucha

Ex orta mari, emerged from the sea, the motto of his coat. According to a Castilian chronicle of 1327, a raid by troops of the Kingdom of Granada, there was a small village on the coast called Almoraic a league from Mojacar and direction Vera, perhaps the first historical reference of this town. They were frequent causes of these two towns, Vera and Mojacar, Garrucha annexing until independence in 1861, even after approval was delayed until a Vera Commission paid a visit to Queen Elizabeth II. And the Catholic Monarchs had to mediate establish in 1494 the tigual tax in which a fixed cost for each fish sold at its ports rate charged, the funds collected are distributed in an established between these two cities share. In its municipal term were the rest of the prehistoric, Iberian, Carthaginian and Roman settlements. The Moorish period there was a tower near the sea, on the site where the town hall now stands, which served to protect fishermen of Christian raids, very common at that time for being near the border with the Kingdom of Murcia. In 1518 it was destroyed by an earthquake. The historical vestiges give the Puerto Deportivo de Garrucha a special interest when it comes to planning your visit. The fishing village of Garrucha has magnificent beaches, but can also visit the Church of San Joaquin and Jesus Nazareno Castillo, a coastal fortification from the time of Charles III.