places to visit
Murcia is one of Spain's best kept secrets, even among Spaniards themselves, and first-time visitors are amazed and often surprised by the diversity of this small region and the friendliness of its people, Murcianos.
On the right you will see a whole range of attractions, sights and activities for you to explore and enjoy whilst staying in our apartments.
Fishing and Boat Trips
Enjoy fantastic sea fishing and boat trips with Calida Fishing.com
The Costa Calida offers some of the best sea fishing around the Spanish coastline.
Charter Muffy.com offer a wide range of day trips and luxury day crusies as well as sea, lagoon and lake fishing.
Watersports
Strategically situated between two seas the Mediterranean and the Mar Menor, the Costa Calida is the ideal base for water sports.
This unique setting has everything you need for water sports: great weather, a constant breeze, warm, calm and shallow waters all of which explain why it is considered one of Europe's best watersport destinations.
Aqua Adicta Watersports La Manga are a small and professional watersports centre, located on the Mar Menor. They specialise in high quality private dinghy sailing lessons and windsurfing lessons and normally operate no more than a 3 to 1 student instructor ratio and lessons are private to your group.
They also offerkayak safaris on the Mar Menor.
Paintball
Pawson Paintball.com, offers a totally unique, fun and safe experience ofpaintballing in Cartagena, Murcia. Pawson Paintball is the perfect paintball 
solution for:
· Corporate team-building events
· School Groups & Project Weeks
· Birthdays
· Stag and hen parties
· Or an exciting alternative day out for groups of friends, students, colleagues and families.
Go-karting
The City of Murcia
The City of Murcia is described as one of the most beautiful and historic in the country. The city stands on the banks or the River Segura and enjoys all year round sunshine, which helps when there is so much to see and do there!
The fabulous Murcia Cathedral is well worth a visit. You can spot it from miles away because of its 96-metre tower which took over two hundred years to build and houses no less than 25 bells. 
Construction work on the cathedral started in the mid 14th century, on the site of a Moorish mosque, and lasted for another four centuries. Murcia Cathedral has many Renaissance and Baroque elements, although its interior is fundamentally Gothic. Daily, 7am-1pm and 5pm-8.30pm. Free admission.
Named after the famous local actor, Julian Romea, as is the square in which it stands, built at the northern end of the Arab city wall.
This theatre, property of the municipality, is one of the most important in the Spanish theatrical circuit and is highly appreciated as much by its audience as by its artists, for its beauty, comfort and extraordinary acoustics.
The Salzillo Museum
This is really something special. When you enter you go with the elevator to the top of the building. It is then really fascinating to discover that the museum is built around the Church of Nuestro Padre Jesus.
In the 18th century the façade was completely remodelled and restored in the twentieth century. It became a museum in 1960 of the works of Francisco Salzillo and the most important pieces are the 556 figures of the world famous Christmas Crib.
Gran Casino Murcia
As the saying goes, "if walls could talk…" the old and well-loved Casino could tell us many stories, tales and anecdotes, which are an important part of the history of the city, sometimes as the protagonist, at others the silent witness.
That, together with the unique beauty of the building, has made the Casino one of the important parts of Murcia's identity, and one of which the Murcianos feel very proud.
24 Hours In: Murcia
By day, admire its ornate buildings and Old Masters. By night, feast on seafood and dance the night away.
Try a piece of pie
08.30: Head for the fabulous La Peladilla confiteria on Calle San Antonio. Try a piece of pastel de cierva, a slightly sweet chicken pie.
Admire the view
10.30: Enjoy a coffee on the magnificent Plaza Cardenal Belluga by the cathedral.
Map your route
11.30: Walk to the Plaza Julian Romea where you can admire the 19th-century theatre and pick up a map.
See an old master
12.00: Walk a few streets east to the Museo de Bellas Artes (museosdemurcia.com) and admire the Baroque paintings of Murillo and Ribera, as well as the ceramics and glass.
Veg out at lunch
13.00: The region of Murcia is known as the vegetable garden of Europe and when you see the stalls at the city's daily covered market on Calle Veronicas you will understand why. A tapas lunch at Café Bar Lola, stall 241, is a treat: try the octopus, grilled prawns and succulent fillet of pork and wash it down with a glass of white wine - a bargain at about €13 (£8.50) for two.
Time for a stroll
15.00: Take advantage of the quiet siesta hours to walk along the banks of the Segura, the river on which the city is founded. The picturesque Puente Viejo or Old Bridge is a good place to start.
Hit the shops
17.00: Murcia is famous for its paella rice, which you can buy in pretty cotton bags from the handsome La Royal delicatessen on the Plaza San Bartolome. And if you fancy yourself as a flamenco dancer you can buy authentic castanets at the cool retro music shop Ritmo on Calle Sociedad.
Good food on tap
18.30: The best tapas bars in Murcia are grouped around the quaint Plaza de las Flores. Sit outside the sleek, modern La Tapa and try some of the famous gambas rojas (red prawns).
See a movie
20.00: Now that films by directors such as Pedro Almodóvar and Guillermo del Toro are so fashionable, you could check out the movies at the retro 1950s Rex Theatre on Calle Vara del Rey.
Treat yourself
22.00: It's worth splashing out to eat at the stylish contemporary restaurant of the Hotel Rincon de Pepe, which is renowned for its fine regional cooking. Starters include a lobster salad and artichoke with squid, followed by main courses such as fillet of cod and kid cutlets. The pudding of leche frito (fried milk) is cooked at your table. Don't leave without trying the delicious sweet red pudding wine called Monastrell.
Dance till dawn
24.00: Whatever your age, you will enjoy the vibrant nightlife which spills out of the bars on to the streets around Plaza de las Balsas. La Puerta del Vino (00 349 689 15343) on Calle Santa Quiteria is an atmospheric place for a drink followed by some late night dancing at theSubmarino on Calle Vara del Rey.
CARTAGENA
The port of Cartagena, in the Mediterranean's Costa Cálida, has been prized since Carthaginian times. Thanks to its strategic position on the Murcia coast, it has been inhabited by several cultures which have left their mark on its artistic heritage. A tour of the place and its museums will draw us into the history of a city closely tied to the sea. 
Along the road beside the port and the marinas, you can visit the barrio de Santa Lucía (districts of Santa Lucía), an isthmus linked to the City by a strip of land. This is the true fishermen’s district, where you may sit and watch the colourful exhibition of the boats preparing to go out to sea, or the competitors of Latin-rig boats leaving the adjacent Regatta Club, while you taste some fried fish, squid, octopus, at any of the open-air bars by the shore. Yet further along the road leading to la Curra Lighthouse, is Cala Cortina (Cortina Cove), a traditional natural hay where it is easy to spot entire families enjoying a bathe of its refreshing waters.