Culture in Adra

Adra Museum, Visitors can spend their free time in the three exhibition halls of the museum, which show the cultural legacy of the Phoenicia

Phoenicia

Phoenicia , was an ancient civilization in Canaan which covered most of the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent. Several major Phoenician cities were built on the coastline of the Mediterranean. It was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean from 1550...

n, Punic and Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 civilizations, and which educate and entertain at the same time. Important exhibitions of national prestige are periodically held here with success.
The museum has a shop where archaeological reproductions can be bought. El Molino del Lugar, built around 1814 and recently renovated, is the site of the ethnographic section of the museum.

The Fair, Adra’s fair is considered to be the second most important in the province of Almería

Almería

Almería is a city in Andalusia, Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the province of the same name.-Toponym:Tradition says that the name Almería stems from the Arabic المرية Al-Mariyya: "The Mirror", comparing it to "The Mirror of the Sea"...

 and it gathers the population of Adra and countless visitors between the 5th and the 10th of September. The patron saint is la Virgen del Mar, who is taken out in a procession on the 8th of September, while San Nicolás de Tolentino is celebrated on the 10th with a procession through the old town (el Barrio).

April 25th, the Day of San Marcos, is an important day for the farmers of Adra. It is officially a festival of Tourist Interest in Andalucía.

The 16th of July is the day of the patron saint of fishermen, Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid 13th centuries...

, a procession takes place by boat in the sea.

A Bazaar takes place two Saturdays a month in a carpark which is beside the Sports Centre and I.E.S Abdera School.

External links

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