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The Moorish castle is the landmark of Velez-Malaga and worth visiting especially for the view and orientation. Access can be by car, there is ample parking inside the grounds. You can visit by the footpath from Calle Forteleza Alta which rises through woods behind the Iglesia de Santa Maria.
Amazingly 2025 will be the 43rd edition Zaidin Rock which is now the longest running free admission Rock Festival in Spain (and probably Europe). Location is the esplanade between Estadio Los Carmenes and the Palacio de Deporte in Zaidin district of Granada city. Free entrance, starts at 21.00 hrs.
Alcalá la Real is a delightful little town with an impressive fortress, once a strategic stronghold during medieval times and subsequently occupied by the Moors in 713. It has about 21,700 inhabitants.
Part of the rugged Sierra Morena mountain range, the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche is a protected natural park of extensive woodland dotted with small whitewashed villages. The rolling hills have a network of footpaths, which make it excellent walking and horseriding country. In the spring, the area is awash with wildflowers.
The Historical Ethnographic Museum was founded in 2002 by the Terque City Council and the Asociación de Amigos del Museo. It is located in one of the many nineteenth-century bourgeois houses in the town square. Following its rooms across two floors is a tour of local trades, many of them now disappeared, as well as domestic settings and religious.
You can expect the same tight security controls at Málaga Airport that you would find at any airport around the world. Following is simply a list of reminders in order to prepare yourself and your hand luggage to pass through security controls.
Alcudia de Monteagud offers a postcard view over its whitewashed houses and the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. The remains of buildings like the Torre de los Casares and La Torrecilla, located in the outskirts of the village centre, are a reminder of the village’s Arab past. It has about 150 inhabitants.
Andalucia is the perfect destination for many types of marine activities, with its long coastline and endless hours of sunshine promising warm weather and perfect sea conditions. The Costa de Sol has an excellent selection of reputable companies offering these types of exciting water sports.
The Alquife mining site was Europe’s most important early source of iron ore
Fuenteheridos is a pretty village just off the main N-433. A tiny village of some 700 people, Fuenteheridos can get overrun with visitors, mainly from Seville, at weekends and holidays. With about six bars around the paseo, there's a great choice of places to stop and sample some of the Sierra's setas (wild mushrooms) in autumn.
Metal crafts, and especially iron forging and copper and brass work have given Andalucia a special identity. Lucena, in the province of Cordoba, is Spain's centre for metal workers, and Seville is also highly regarded for its creative ironwork.
The Tourist Office is located in the Town Hall of Serrato, opening from Monday to Friday.
Abla offers its visitors interesting tours around the town and the chance to purchase some traditional crafts, such as rugs and esparto grass products. It has about 1,250 inhabitants. The town’s name is thought to come from Abula, dating to the Roman times. Madoz called it a white town because of Alba’s metathesis and Ptolemy cites it as an important Bastetani nucleus.
Golden Mile Mountainside Districts - Marbella Hill Club
Marbella Hill Club is located just below La Concha mountain, and was developed in the 1970s by Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, great grandson of the Otto von Bismarck Otto (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), known as Otto von Bismarck the conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 and was the first Chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890.
Dólar has a Mycology Centre dedicated to the study and exhibition of fungi. It showcases the local biodiversity and mountain environment of the Sierra Nevada region.
Europe’s second desert course, opened in 2002, was designed by José Canales. The small, circular tees are raised, giving a good view of wide open fairways that have to be reached over the arid land in between, and the greens are ample with multiple pin positions. There are three par-5 holes. Plan well on the 3rd, a par-4, as the fairway bordered by water offers various strategic points.
Estepona has become a fashionable place for both foreign and Spanish residents to buy property such as duplex. Although Estepona doesn't have the "ritz" of neighbouring Marbella, Estepona retains the charm of a traditional Andalusian fishing village. In Estepona, you have it all from village houses to million euro villas and duplex.
Andalucia is filled with fascinating cultural events throughout the year. Whilst many of these festivals take place on the date indicated each year, others move slightly in relation to the day of the week or the religious calendar or occasionally weather.
Visitors to Los Blázquez have to try the town's exquisite cerdo ibérico (Iberian pork), in particular the chorizo. The small municipality has around 730 inhabitants.
Alquife has a long mining history, from the Bronze Age to modern times. Its iron mines shaped the local economy, and though activity declined in the late 20th century, the mines recently reopened.
