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.
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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.