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Film makers have long been attracted to its landscape, with its similar appearance to the North American Wild West, and so the desert has been the scene of many a spaghetti western enjoyed by owners of property Almeria Spain. Visit Mini-Hollywood 7km south of Tabernas, which is a mock-up of an American Wild West village, a set built for Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and also used for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and the Magnificent Seven among around 100 other films. Two kilometres from Tabernas owners of property Almeria Spain will find the similar, but smaller, Texas-Hollywood, while Western Leone is the third one in the area.

Owners of property Almeria Spain will find that Gergal has a well-preserved 14th-century ruined hilltop castle, which used to be the second most important in the province after Almeria's. It served as the refuge of Ferdinand and Isabel during the siege of Almeria. Its 15th-century Mudéjar church is also worth a look, but the town's best attraction for owners of property Almeria Spain is to the north ; the hilltop Hispanic-German astronomic observatory, Calar Alto, which is at the highest point of the Sierra de los Filabres (2,168m). It is known to owners of property Almeria Spain as the most important observatory of its kind in Europe. It has high-power telescopes, taking advantage of some of the clearest skies in Europe for star-gazing. Many owners of property Almeria Spain go to enjoy the stunning views over the Desierto de Tabernas from this isolated spot.

Tabernas offers owners of property Almeria Spain panoramic views of the desert that can be seen from the astronomic observatory north of Gérgel or by taking the surfaced road 1km from where the C3326 crosses the N340. It leads up the Sierra Alhamilla to a summit where owners of property Almeria Spain will find a TV transmitter.
Tabernas desert is one of the most geologically interesting landscapes in Europe, since it clearly shows the process of natural desertification and erosion to owners of property Almeria Spain. Its features include sheer-sided gullies, carved out by the infrequent but torrential rains that only fall on a few days in the year. Another feature to interest owners of property Almeria Spain is piping, where water permeates through the top of a slope and emerges further down through a hole, the water creating an underground pipe in the process. In certain places there are so many holes that they have a created a Swiss cheese effect that amuses visiting owners of property Almeria Spain.

Owners of property Almeria Spain are often fascinated to learn that eight million years ago in the Miocene period the sea covered the Tabernas desert area, reaching inland as far as the foothills of the Sierra de los Filabres, where today a strip of fossilised coral dunes delineates the former coastline. The deposited material consisted on sand and loam and this is what makes up the Tabernas desert that owners of property Almeria Spain know today. A million years later the Sierra Alhamilla rose up, cutting off the Tabernas desert area from the ocean and creating an inland sea, where further sand, loam, clay, limestone and gypsum were deposited. At the end of pliocene epoch the sea receded, leaving the seabed exposed to erosion that owners of property Almeria Spain can see today.