1) Phoenician colony in Spain 
Almuñécar is an important setting in Laurie Lee`s account of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and referred to as `Castillo` to disguise people`s identities. Almuñécar`s coat of arms, which shows the turbaned heads of three Barbary pirates floating in the sea, was granted to the town by King C...