Personalized Star Map of Almería
36.8381°N, 2.4597°W
At Spain's far southeast, Almería spreads a sky of unique purity in Europe, under the eye of the Calar Alto Observatory, one of the continent's most important. Between the Moorish Alcazaba and the Tabernas Desert that hosted the spaghetti westerns, gift an Almeriense star map — a present as rare and raw as the stars of Cabo de Gata.
Famous Landmarks
Alcazaba of Almería
36.8381°N, 2.4597°W
Almería's Alcazaba, founded in 955 by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Rahman III, is the largest Muslim citadel in Spain after the Alhambra of Granada. It extends over 43,000 m² in three successive enclosures. From its battlements, one sees the Alborán Sea and the first foothills of the Sierra Alhamilla.
Cabo de Gata
36.8381°N, 2.4597°W
Cabo de Gata-Níjar, Andalusia's first land-sea Natural Park created in 1987, hosts one of Europe's most beautiful volcanic landscapes. Its 50 kilometres of wild coast, beaches like Mónsul and Los Genoveses, and its unique aridity make it a sanctuary for endemic fauna and flora. UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1997.
Almería Cathedral
36.8381°N, 2.4597°W
Almería Cathedral, built between 1524 and 1562 on the ruins of the great Muslim mosque, is an exception in Spanish religious art: it was designed as a true fortress to resist Barbary corsair raids. Its massive 4-metre-thick walls and defensive towers give it the appearance of a Gothic-Renaissance castle.
Why gift a star map of Almería?
Gifting a star map of Almería means immortalising a night under one of Europe's purest skies, where Barbary corsairs, Moors and western filmmakers all gazed at the same stars. From the Alcazaba to Cabo de Gata, every star above Almería tells the silence of the Iberian desert and the majesty of Andalusian nights.
The sky of Almería
At 36.84° north latitude at Iberia's far southeast, Almería benefits from a semi-desert climate with over 320 sunny days a year. The Calar Alto Observatory (2,168 metres elevation in the Sierra de los Filabres) is one of continental Europe's most important observatories, and Cabo de Gata offers Bortle 1-2 skies — among Spain's darkest — suited to observing southern celestial objects rarely visible further north.