La Manga Club is a sports and leisure resort located in the south-eastern region of Spain, Murcia, south of La Manga, and bordered by the Mar Menor and Calblanque Regional Park. The resort complex opened in 1972 and covers an area of 1,400 acres (560 ha).[1]
La Manga Club - The Resort, in fact resides within an area called Atamaria, and provides sporting services to an established and growing "Small Town" - The La Manga Club Community - LMCC. It comprises over 2,200 privately owned homes with growing resident population. Within LMCC there is a Church - St Teresa's, a Post Office and local Bank offices.
La Manga Club Ground is a multi purpose stadium in La Manga Club. The ground is mainly used for organizing matches of football, cricket and other sports. The ground has yet to host first-class match but it has become premier cricket ground in Spain.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
The La Manga Club Football Stadium is a resort stadium that was used to friendly matches and as a resting and training place for the Spain national football team.
Incidents
In 2015, the body of British diver Neil Anthony Fears was discovered near a popular diving attraction in the resort, after he lost contact with three other divers during a dive.[17]