Portman is a small coastal town found at the western

end of the Calblanque. Historically speaking, Portman was strategically important to the Romans due to the vast bay that was found there during the Roman occupation. Two thousand years of extensive mining in the area has now largely filled the bay with vast silt deposits from the mines. The vast majority of mines have now closed which has brought economic hardship to the area, but over the centuries the surrounding hills which bear the scars of this activity have yielded large quantities of silver, tin, lead, iron, quartz and other minerals.
This image was taken from the area previously occupied by the 'La Chapa' coastal battery gun emplacement which played an active role in the Spanish Civil War and was dismantled only as recently as 1994. File 1389.