While Málaga battles overtourism down the coast, this ‘forgotten’ working port city revels in its outsider status Perched high on the battlements of Almería’s 10th-century Alcazaba , looking over the mosaic of flat roofs tumbling down to the sea, I’m reminded of author Gerald Brenan’s travel classic South from Granada , and his impression upon arriving in Almería in 1920: “Certainly, it seemed that the sea was doubly Mediterranean here, and the city … contained within it echoes of distant civili