The Resort Flowering in Spain's Own Desert ; It's Rocky, Baking Hot and Was Abandoned. So Why Are the British so Mad About Almeria?Overseas Property

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WHEN you think of the desert, you imagine windswept sand dunes as far as the eye can see, baking sun and the odd camel train.

However, in the Almeria region of southern Spain, which is one of Europe's few deserts, the landscape is rocky, mountainous and peppered with small farms growing vegetables under huge polythene tunnels.

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The Resort Flowering in Spain's Own Desert ; It's Rocky, Baking Hot and Was Abandoned. So Why Are the British so Mad About Almeria?Overseas Property

There is little sand and the region is classed as desert because of its low rainfall and high temperatures, which regularly top 40 degrees in summer.

This sparsely populated region, which was largely abandoned under Franco's regime, is now getting busier ...

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