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Lahiguera offers incredible views of the surrounding mountains of the province, as well as the Guadalquivir River, which borders part of the town. It has about 1,680 inhabitants.
During Granada's spectacular Easter processions, Sub-Inspector Max Romero has a visitor, his sister, Susanna. She is preparing a T.V. programme on San Juan de la Cruz, Spain's sixteenth century mystic poet. In the ruins of San Juan's monastery on the Alhambra hill, they meet a charismatic environmentalist, Francisco Yepes, who later that day finds the body of a gypsy guitarist in a cave.
Málaga Airport is the fourth busiest airport in Spain with over 22 million passenger movements in 2023. Malaga Airport offers full range of passenger services. The airport essentially operates from Terminal 3 which was opened in March 2010. The second runway which is only used at peak times was opened in June 2012.
Probably the town's oldest tapas bar, and one of the smallest, is Bar Flores, which first opened its doors during the 1940s. This symbolic tavern is situated in the centre of Torremolinos and offers customers a slice of times gone by.
The tourist office of Albondón is located in the Town Hall.
Ronda's loveliest enclosed space is the Mondragón palace, the heavily renovated and part-modernised remnants of what once was the palace of the Moorish ruler Abbel Mallek, or Abomelic, son of the king of Morocco. The palace is tiny, but much detail remains, in the Mudejar ceilings, some original tiling, and the balconied inner courtyards.
Bureaucracy is never fun. It is even less so when you feel lost and don't know where to start in order to find the information you need and to understand why certain documents and procedures are required. Following is a list of tips and suggestions that can help you cut just about any type of red tape.
The chapel was built in 1953-1960, inspired by the eighteenth century Baroque architecture of Seville. It occupies the location of the previous hermitage of San Sebastián, which was built at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Located on Calle San Sebastián.
If you are visiting Marbella and are interesting in exploring the surrounding countrysid, hire a car. If you are flying to Málaga Airport or Gibraltar Airport you can hire on arrival or prebook online and collect the hire car on arrival. It is also posible to hire a car in Marbella for a few days.
Málaga airport meets EU accessibility standards and is well equipped to ensure that travelers with special needs can move about the facility. If you have special needs, you will find adequately adapted restrooms, designated waiting areas, ramps, elevators and security checks that accommodate your needs.
Málaga airport meets EU accessibility standards and is well equipped to ensure that travelers with special needs can move about the facility. If you have special needs, you will find adequately adapted restrooms, designated waiting areas, ramps, elevators and security checks that accommodate your needs. However, if you need assistance getting through the airport or boarding or disembarking from your flight, it’s important to arrange this in advance.
Festivals in Nerja: Three Kings (5th January), Carnival (Feb), Semana Santa (March/April), San Isidro (15th May), San Juan, (23/24 June), Virgin del Carmen (16th July), Feria (Second week in October Thur to Sun/Mon).
The tourist office of Cáñar is located in the Town Hall.
Like all the towns in Andalucia Torremolinos celebrates numerous traditional festivals. Here are some of the more important. See our festival page for more background information on these festivals.
All major brands of electrical good are available in Spain so it is not actually necessary to import anything. The electricity Supply is 220 Volt and 50 cycles with a standard European two or three pin plug. All your other electrical goods should work fine, just change the plugs (preferable) or buy adapters available locally.
This sanctuary was erected during the Bishopric of Moscoso y Sandoval to guard the supposed remains of the martyred Saints, Bonoso and Maximiano, found in this town at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Agua (water) Mural in Calle Malaga, Edificio Salymar by Francisco Jesus Redondo Losada, born in Asturias in 1968. The mural measures seven metres long and two metres high The artist decided to represent dolphins in the sea as a symbol of marine Estepona. In 2010 Francisco won the II Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño with a book illustrated by blind people. Since then he has focused artistic work in this area.
Oranges are big business in Spain. Andalucia topping the charts in production ahead of Valencia since 2019. However, the “naranjo” (orange tree), its blossoms and its fruits have a long tradition in Andalucia with Moorish poets singing their praises in Islamic Spain and historians reminding us that these trees were also valued by Greeks and Romans who surely cultivated them in their Iberian colonies.
Other than the outstanding beauty of the area, the mountainside is littered with sites from man's past. Probably the largest in the district was the village of Benestepar, which nearly survived the Morisco uprising, only to fade due to the economic pull of Casares and Genalguacil in the early 17th century.
The church was built in the sixteenth century, between 1555 and 1557, on the site of an orchard. The parish of Juviles was established in 1501, initially depending on that of Nieles.
Tolox lies between the rio de los Caballos and the rio de los Horcajos at the end of a side road hanging like a loose thread from the C-344 Málaga-Ronda highway. When they reach the village the two rivers call a truce and combine to form the rio Riachuelo.
