Nijar is a small town of whitewashed houses located at the foot of the hills in the Sierra de Alhamilla. This locality is completely surrounded by an immense desert scenery.

Nijar is a small white town located on the foothills of the rugged Sierra Alhamilla. It's completely surrounded by arid desert-type landscape.

Its narrow winding streets in the Moorish quarter were designed to give maximun shade from the piercing sun.

They make and sell all kinds of traditional handicrafts here. The landscape around Nijar has been transformed into a hoticultural site - it's like an ocean of plastic green houses.

If you head towards the coast you'll come to a small town called Lucainena de las Torres. It's basically just a cluster of white box shaped and a red roofed church. It has a narrow main street and a tiny town square.