Huercal-Overa
Property in Huercal-Overa, Costa Almeria has a lot to offer the discerning investor. Your money goes a lot further in Almeria than on the Costa del Sol, but prices are beginning to rise as property buyers realise the potential of buying away from Spain's traditional tourist hot spots.
Huercal-Overa, in the Northern end of the province of Almeria, is the main town in this thriving agricultural area, with a population of around 14,000. It has a modern hospital, hotels, restaurants, a public swimming pool, leisure centre, schools, and a good range of shops and supermarkets. The road infrastructure of Almeria has improved immensely in recent years; Huercal-Overa is less than a kilometre from the main North-South motorway giving access to Almeria, Alicante and Murcia San Javier Airports. The stunning beaches of the Costa de Almeria are within easy reach, with the nearest beach only a 20 minute drive away and the popular resort of Mojacar about 25 minutes' drive.
The once barren landscape around Huercal-Overa has been transformed in recent years with the undertaking of long term forestation projects. Careful irrigation and planting have begun to turn the desert into lush green forests, the first in the area for half a century.
"The area of Huercal-Overa has been inhabited by different peoples like the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans, although not in the same as the rich lands of the coast. The current town was created by the Catholic Kings in 1488 starting from the union of the towns of Huercal and Overa to the neighbouring large town of Lorca. In this way the place began to repopulate and at the end of the 17th century they got the independence as a village. From the 18th century the growth of the municipality was unstoppable until it became an outstanding site of the agricultural, commercial and service sectors."
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