Paseo de Almería, Promenade in Almería, Spain

The Paseo de Almería is a long street that runs from the Puerta de Purchena to Plaza Emilio Pérez, where it meets the Rambla de Belén. Along its course are buildings of different periods, along with shops, cafes, and a central market.

The promenade took shape after the 16th-century retreat of the city wall, running from Puerta de Purchena to the Rambla de Belén. Known as Paseo de la Almada or de la Feria by 1816, it gained its first building, the Teatro Principal, at the end of the first third of the 19th century. The demolition of the walls from 1854 and the 1835 Desamortización drove its layout, and after the railway reached the city in 1895 the centre shifted east and bourgeois houses, government offices and the Mercado Central appeared. Renamed Avenida de la República in 1931 and Avenida del Generalísimo in 1939, it recovered the name Paseo de Almería in 1979.

The Paseo follows the line of the wall that defended the city in Muslim and early modern times; the land between it and the Rambla de Belén was a garden and orchard called the Vergel in the Libro de los Repartimientos. Its name changed with each regime: Paseo de la Muralla, de la Almada or de la Feria, de Campos, del Príncipe, de Cádiz, de Orozco, avenida de la República, avenida del Generalísimo, until 1979 brought back Paseo de Almería. Today it is the city's main concentration of shops and banks, with several cafeterias.

The Paseo runs in a straight line from Puerta de Purchena to Plaza Emilio Pérez, where it joins the Rambla de Belén. Pedestrianisation works begun in January 2025 were still under way in 2026, so parts of the route may be fenced off; the first stretch, up to Calle Navarro Rodrigo, opened in September 2025. The pavement is travertine from a quarry in Alhama de Almería.

The promenade's pavement uses travertine from a quarry in Alhama de Almería; its poor quality forced the quarry to select each block by hand, delaying the works. Near the Puerta de Purchena, archaeological remains were found and the design had to be redrawn.