We are committed to updating our pages as regularly as possible, allocating over half of our editorial resources to this essential task, to ensure that you can always find the latest, most reliable information on popular topics and places.
Here is a list with the latest pages that have been updated or created. Most recent are at the top of the list.
Every town and village in Andalucia has its own feria or fair, and it would be possible, if one had superhuman powers of endurance, to spend the whole summer following them about the region. The summer annual feria originated in the middle ages, and was the principal means of interchange of local products within the kingdom.
Plan your visit to these selection of interesting museums in Antequera town. Theses include the Casa Museo de la Diputacion Provincial, Museo Conventual de las Descalzas, Museo Taurino, Museo de Usos y Costumbres San Benito, Museo del aceite - Hojiblanca
Marbella, whilst a modern and cosmopolitan resort town, still has numerous cultural and social events going in addition to important festivals and fairs that take place around the same time each year. Here is a look at Marbella's main traditional festivals.
Dearmers has been closed since end of season 2019. Dreamers which had reopened quietly on the 28th June 2018 was always known to many regulars to Marbella as the large nightclub oposite Puerto Banus even though the venue has had many reincarnations over the last few years. We are Back!
Antequera is a medieval town in the hills to the north of Malaga, overlooked by a Moorish fortress or Alcazaba. It is located in a fertile river valley, with olive groves and fields of sunflowers, and has great climbing and walking attractions nearby.
Lovers of tuna come from all over Spain to enjoy the various festivals and routes celebrating the almadraba season. The towns have their own Rutas del Atun, which list restaurants and tapas bars offering inventive, beautifully-presented atun de almadraba tapas at reasonable a set price, for example 4 euros; maps are available to show you where participating restaurants are.
This successful festival has an 'all-are-going-on-a-summer-holiday' atmosphere that attracts a younger audience to the offbeat Costa de la Luz fishing town of Barbate. The 2024 edition took place a month earlier than usual, perhaps to avoid the peak holiday season for this coastal town. We are not aware of any announcements regarding the 2025 festival. The website still features information about the 2024 edition.
Torcal de Antequera is a natural area known for their unusual limestone rock formations
Within easy reach of Antequera you will find two amazing rock attractions: El Torcal park, with its extraordinary limestone rock formations, including la Copa (the wine glass), el Lagaro (the lizard) and la Loba (the she-wolf); and El Chorro gorge, sheer 400-metre rock walls, through which the river Guadalhorce flows.
Located at the top of the town, the Arco de los Gigantes dates from 1585, and was built in honour of King Philip II. The late-Renaissance arch was constructed using Roman masonry with sculptures and inscriptions, rescued from the Roman town which was probably destroyed around the same time (see Fact 3). You walk through this magnificent stone triumphal arch to get to the castle walls. There are three other gates in Antequera: Puerta de Malaga, Puerta de Estepa and Puerta de Granada.
A visit to this historical Andalucían town is a journey almost 5,000 years back in time, beginning with the Bronze Age and the native Iberians. The timeline is there to be followed in this fascinating city's profusion of burial mounds, dolmens, Roman baths, a Moorish Castle, Gothic churches, Renaissance fountains and baroque bell towers.
Torcal de Antequera is a natural area known for their unusual limestone rock formations
Antequera offers green spaces that combine nature and history.
Tio Pepe Festival, Veranea en la Bodega, Jerez de la Frontera takes place once or twice week from 14 July to - 12th August 2026
The 2025 tournament results and brief reports are listed in reverse chronological order. This page will be updated throughout the season, with the latest tournament results added to the top of the page.
Antequera is filled with small shops usually run as family businesses. However, there are also modern shopping centres, including a fully equipped "Hipermarket" on the outskirts of the city. It is, therefore, easy to meet all basic shopping requirements. In addition, it's quite easy to find markets offering produce from the countryside, including, fruits, vegetables, and olive oil, honey and fresh eggs.
Antequera Cuidad station is the old train station just to the north of the town at the end if the aptly named Avenida Estacion. From here there were regional trains on the following route until the line was closed in 2013 for the construction of the AVE from Antequera to Granada. It may reopen in 2019.
There is an art gallery in the Unicaja premises in calle Ramon y Cajal, 2. Open weekdays between 19.00 and 21.00.
There is only one course in Antequera and that is the aptly named Antequera Golf course. The course at 650 metres above sea level is situated between the Torcal mountains and La Vega de Antequera plains.
