Hornillo beach. Aguilas. Murcia is a photograph by Guido Montanes Castillo which was uploaded on June 18th, 2019.
Title
Hornillo beach. Aguilas. Murcia
Artist
Guido Montanes Castillo
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Photograph
Description
Hornillo beach. Aguilas. Murcia
This beach of Costa Cálida is located in the municipality of Águilas (Murcia) Spain. It is located along a small bay in which at one end are the Yellow Beach and a small island called Isla del Fraile and at the other end of the bay is the Embarcadero del Hornillo, a great architectural work built with iron and concrete by the British engineer Gustavo Gillman and the English capital company The Great Southern of Spain Railway Company Limited, which served as a wharf for ore, coming from the Sierra de los Filabres, directly from the rail cars to the ships by gravity of there its height. After the closure of the pier and after many years of neglect, it served in the eighties and nineties as a marine fish farm of sea bream and sea bass, until it moved to the open sea and out of the bay, to improve the quality of its waters for the bathroom.
This beach is due to its proximity to the railway line where the inhabitants of Lorca and nearby towns go by train to the beach. In holiday periods the number of trains increases due to the increase of users that go to said beach.
Before the closure of the Almanzora Railroad in 1985, it was very popular with inhabitants of the nearby provinces of Granada and Almeria. Formerly said beach was outside the main urban core of Águilas separated by the railroad, little by little the bay has been absorbed mainly by the urban nucleus (Practically already belongs to this nucleus) except the Yellow Beach or the Cigar and the Island del Fraile, although it is in the process of being built nearby.
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June 18th, 2019
