Almuñécar's nightlife moves at a leisurely pace and centers around the bars and discos circling Plaza Rosa and behind the Play Puerta del Mar.

While you in Almuñécar  is worth a visit to the weekly market on a Friday, or the book market on the 1st Monday of each month.

In the town, Almuñécar's impressive Castillo de San Miguel (Opening hours, Tuesday-Saturday-10:00am-12:30pm & 7-10pm, Sunday 10:00am-12:30pm; 300 ptas), sitting atop a headland which bisects the resort's two bays, replaced the Moorish Alcazaba-itself built on top of an earlier Roman Fort-in the times of Carlos V. Distinctive for its massive tower known as La Mazmorra ("the dungeon") this is where, in the Nasrid period, Granada's rulers imprisoned out-of-favor ministers or overweening military commanders whom they saw as a threat. The interior of the Castle now houses the town's interesting museum containing artefacts and information documenting Almunecar's distinguished three-thousand year history.

Below the castle you will find Parque Botanico El Majuelo, a remarkable Factoria de Salazones or Roman fish-curing factory has been extracted. The tanks in which the famous garum, a sort of "Gentleman' Relish" was prepared are well-preserved, and the quality of the garum sexitanus is recorded in the writings of Pliny the Elder. The surrounding botanical garden is extremely peaceful with fine views towards the castillo and walls.

To the south, the Parque Ornitologico is an aviary filled with a squawking collection of 1500 birds representing 120 international species.

In town, it is worth visiting the small Museo Arqueologico located above the south of the elegant Plaza Ayuntamiento, in the "Cave of the Seven Palaces" - there is an ancient structure that may well have been a water reservoir. The museum exhibits finds most discovered locally - from the Phoenician, Roman and Moorish periods, including an inscribed seventeenth-century BC Egyptian vase which carries not only the oldest piece of written text discovered on the Iberian peninsula, but also the only known reference to the early sixteenth-century BC Pharaoh Apophis I, a ruler during Egypt's hazy Hykos period when foreign usurpers grasped the throne.

More ancient remains are visible about 1km out of town along the Rio Seco, where there's a first century two-level Roman aqueduct that until recently was part of the town's water supply.