Albox information in Almeria - elitecaralmeria.com

Situated in the basin of the river Almanzora, to the north of the province, in a landscape conditioned by the shortage of water we can find Albox.

For this reason there is a marked contrast between areas of cultivation and the dry hills, plains and almond.

In the village there is a trade since the nineteenth century, gives a special personality and a certain stately air besides wealth and prosperity.

Sample elles is the proper care of the buildings. The church is the most prominent building near the Monastery of the "Virgen del Saliente".

Albox was founded by the Arabs (whose name means "forest" in Arabic) with a history broadly united to the Kingdom of Granada from the thirteenth century. In the Christian Reconquista, in the fifteenth century, Albox was taken from the Arabs by the troops of Mayor Head of the Crown of Castile, Alonso Yanez Fajardo.