Property Developments Murcia Costa Calida

 

Villa España ­ Magical secret of Murcia

 

 

Spain's south-east corner is a sunny, unspoilt region rich in history. It is the next big place to buy a holiday home. You could hardly describe the region of Murcia as an undiscovered corner of Spain, after all, the early Romans battled the Carthaginians for it. It was a centre of Moorish culture for almost 500 years and today our supermarket shelves are filled with fruit and vegetables from its renowned citrus groves and market gardens. Yet without doubt, Murcia, on the south-east corner of Spain, is the next big thing to hit Spanish tourism and the international property market. Its undoubted appeal to the tourist and would-be property owner has gone largely unmarked. Until now.

This is good news all round, for local communities as well as foreign visitors - because it means that this astonishingly fertile, temperate and historic area has escaped the mistakes that have so marred other development areas in Spain. You can expect no high-rise horrors or neon nightmares here, neither along its 250 kilometres of Mediterranean coastline (known as the Costa Calida) nor amid its ruggedly beautiful mountains inland. With more than 300 days of sunshine a year (and an average temperature of 21 degrees) Murcia's climate is ideal for the outdoor life all year round. The region is genuinely unspoiled -and intends to stay that way.

Murcia is developing fast but with a keen eye to the long-term. Its many areas of outstanding natural beauty are strongly protected, and its archaeological, architectural and cultural heritages are treasured and preserved.

And as low-rise, sensitively planned developments burgeon and fit into the varied landscape, the infrastructure to serve them is already being put sensibly and sensitively in place. Motorways already link it with the glories of Granada and Alhambra to the south-west and to the jewel city of Valencia to the north-east. The bustling airport of Alicante is a mere 40 minutes away. The ancient city of Murcia itself is served by the developing airport at nearby San Javier, with a new airport due to open soon to the south of the city.

An ultra-modern, high-speed rail link is due to open soon, shrinking the journey to the capital, Madrid, to a mere two hours. Even the mighty pylons that stride across the fertile plain are scheduled to be replaced by underground services, leaving the vast skyline enticingly open.