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Real 
The Calle Real of the Almedina started at the gate of Imagen, unchanged in its course since the original path of Pechina in the 9th century. Its conversion into a street was due to Abderramán III, who made it the main road of the medina. It was the old main avenue of the city, leading to the gate Puerta del Mar. This street was a centre of commercial activity in the last centuries of Arab rule and the first centuries of Christian domination.
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Paseo de Almeria
The current line of its buildings marks the stretch of wall that defended the Muslim city from the dangers of the sea. In the Muslim Almería, the area between this street and the Ramblas was one of gardens and cultivated land called Vergel. When the wall was removed in the 16th century, the avenue began to take shape. It was the Paseo de la Muralla for centuries, and ran from the gate of Purchena to the Rambla. With the decline of piracy, the Paseo de la Alameda or Paseo de la Feria appeared, the first record of its existence appearing in 1816. The first building appears in the early 19th century, the Principal theatre. The avenue took the name of Paseo de Campos, in honour of Juan Antonio Miguel de Campos, mayor at the time. The opening of this avenue was an immensely important phenomenon for contemporary Almería, representing the urban occupation of the extensive land to the east of the historical city. However, the real impulse came with the suppression of the convents in 1835 and the demolition of the walls in 1854, marking the start of new streets.
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General Tamayo
Came into existence with the urban development of the gardens of Santo Domingo and was formerly known as Instituto. In 1923 it was dedicated to General Francisco Sánchez Ortega, military governor and first civilian governor under Primo de Rivera. It was dedicated to General Tamayo in 1939.
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Plaza de la Catedral
The constant threat of Algerian and Berber pirate attacks obliged the bishop Diego Fernández de Villalán to have the cathedral built like a fortress. The square, designed in the mid 19th century, has been remodelled on several occasions.
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Puerta de Purchena
The name of Purchena was taken from the old Arab gate of Pechina, the name being erroneously changed by the Christians. It has always been a crossroads and today it is the nerve centre of the city where the three central streets La Rambla Obispo Orberá, el Paseo de Almería y la calle de las Tiendas are connected.
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Gravina
Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli (1756 1806), Spanish sailor and soldier famous for his participation in the Battle of Trafalgar. One of the most notable of all Spanish sailors, successful in both his military and diplomatic roles.
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Avenida Federico Garcia Lorca
This is the current axis of the city, the old boulevard. The layout of this road, designed between 1993 and 1995, was the result of a national competition of the 1980s. It has become an integral part of the city and could be described as the backbone of Almería. It is notable in its integration of the sea along its final stretch, the placement of underground parking at the points of greatest necessity, the use of water as an element alongside green areas and recreational areas, the conservation of the meaning that a boulevard has to its urban setting, and in the textual treatment of streetlamps and benches. This avenue was dedicated to Gonzales Callejón of the Security Corps. It is currently dedicated to Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), Spanish poet and dramatist. A member of the “generation of 27”, he is the most popular and influential poet in 20th century Spanish literature. As a dramatist, he is considered as the peak of 20th century Spanish theatre, alongside Valle-Inclán and Buero Vallejo. He was executed following the military coup because of his connections with the Popular Front and for being a self-confessed homosexual.
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Plaza de San Pedro
Taking its name from the parish church that presides over the square, the Sartorius, as it was known as in the 19th century, was built on the site of the old convent of San Francisco and its gardens, confiscated in 1835.
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Plaza Virgen del Mar
This square is a quiet spot set in the heart of the old quarter, its design dating back to the 19th century. The central gardens are paved with stone. The façade of the Santuario de la Virgen del Mar church, popularly known as the “Temple of the Patron” presides over the square.
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Ricardos
Site of the old bastion of San Francisco o de la Piezas, stretches from Calle Padre Luque to the left side of the Paseo de Almeria.
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Jovellanos
Formerly Calle Ancha. A street that came about with the elongation of the last part of Calle Real, crossing the gardens of the convent of Santa Clara. Dedicated to Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744-1811), writer, jurist and illustrious politician.
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Tiendas
It was the oldest street of Almeria opened in the 11th century; it was also the old route from Pechina to Almeria under the Caliphs. It was one of the commercial areas, especially as for silk is concerned, under the Muslims. In the 16th century the street took the current structure and received the name of calle de las Tiendas y Lenceria. In this street, the retailers and merchants of the Renaissance had their residences as well as the staff in charge of the construction of the Cathedral and the Royal Hospital. Turning around the corner of Tiendas, you find calle Tenor Iribarne where the old Arab water wells from the 11th century were located; today the place houses the flamenco association El Taranto. Built by Zuhayr in 1038 to supply drinking water from Alhadra springs to the population.
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Plaza Flores
It was named in 1860, due to the abundance of flower stalls in the square. It was developed in 1990 by the introduction of a hotel, with plants and outside bar seating. It is said that there was once a mysterious cross at the corner of the square, in memory of which there was a chapel with railings, in which the Virgin of the sacred Heart was worshiped. The chapel was destroyed in 1936.
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Torres
The doctor Manuel de Torres lived in this street; he worked for the neighbourhood community in the epidemic of cholera in 1854, and therefore the street's name on his honor .
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Virgen de la Soledad
This street owes its name to Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, known in Almeria as la Virgen de la Soledad (the Virgin of the Solitude), official name since 2004, after the initiative of a group of brothers of the Brotherhood. Located between the street Tiendas and Plaza Flores, at the feet of the tower-belfry of the Church Santiago Apostol, where the image is placed.
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Navarro Rodrigo
This street was built on the former path of Vergel and was called Calle de los Arbolicos, later Calle Bilbao and, still later, Juan Lirola. It was finally dedicated to Carlos Navarro Rodrigo of Alicante.
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Plaza de San Sebastian
Since the 9th century, it has been one of the most populated parts of the city. It is the crossroads of the highways that enter from the northeast and the east. In Muslim Almería, there was a temple here, later to be converted into the hermitage of San Sebastián by the Christians.
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Plaza Manuel Pérez García
The square was formed when the old walls and towers of the gate of Purchena were demolished. The first part of the city reached by the Granada and Cordova roads, the square is named after Manuel Pérez García, born in Almeria in 1867, professor of Agriculture and director of the El Popular newspaper.
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Rambla Obispo Barbera
Formerly called Los Hileros, so called because of the guild of weavers (hileros). Before 1850 it was palnted with trees and called the Paso de la Pescadería (fish market), it being a place where fish was sold. When Orberá, bishop of the city from 1875 to 1886, died in 1886, the street was dedicated to his memory.
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Alcalde Muñoz
Previously called Carrera de Santa Rita, where the hermitage of San Lázaro stood. The hermitage was the provisional seat of the parish of San Sebastián. The street opens out at the end, where the popular bar-hotel Parador de Martínez once stood, a hostel for bathers of the 1920s. The street corresponds to the bourgeois urban development of the 19th century.
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