Various objects found in Phoenician necropolises of Laurita and Puente Nov are on display in this museum in an original Roman cellar. The museum houses what is considered as the oldest document on the peninsula: the Egyptian funerary urn in grey marble of Apophis I.

Costa Tropical is the wholly justifiable name given to the coast in the province of Granada. Lined with medieval watchtowers, the steep coast with its creeks and coves is covered in luxuriant vegetation. Inland, on the small coastal plain around Motril, protected from northern weather conditions by the Sierra Nevada, there are sugar cane plantations. Among the small resorts are Carchuna, Calahonda, and Castell de Ferro with its attractive bay.

The museum set up in one of Capileira's traditional, Moorish-looking houses gives a moving account of daily life in the area in the 19C. It was here, in Las Alpujarras, an almost impregnable region, that the last of the Moriscos took refuge after Granada fell to the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. Although the 1569 rebellion led to the departure of the last Muslims, their farming methods and handicrafts have been continued up until quite recently.

The church of Santa María de Gracia was built in the 16C and is certainly one of the most beautiful in the Western Alpujarras (the part of the range near Granada).