Hotels in Motril

Motril sits on Spain's Costa Tropical in Granada province, Andalusia — the southernmost point of continental Europe's main mountain range meets the Mediterranean here. The Sierra Nevada peaks rise within 40 km of the shoreline, a geographic contrast that gives the area a microclimate mild enough to grow sugarcane and tropical fruit, rare on the European mainland. The city itself holds around 60,000 residents and serves as the main port and commercial hub for the eastern Costa Tropical.

Visitors come for the beaches — Playa de Poniente and Playa Granada are the closest, broad sandy stretches with calmer waters than the exposed Atlantic coast. The port handles cruise calls and ferry connections to Melilla. Inland, the Museo de Caña de Azúcar documents the region's sugar industry, which dates to Moorish settlement and peaked under 16th-century production. The old quarter retains the parish church of La Encarnación, built on the site of a former mosque after the Christian reconquest in 1489.

Motril's airport link is Málaga-Costa del Sol, approximately 80 km west via the A-7 coastal motorway. Almería Airport lies roughly 110 km east. The city has a RENFE bus-rail interchange connecting Granada city, about 70 km north, in under 90 minutes by road.