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The Nerja Tourist Office is located in Calle Carmen 1, Nerja. It is open Monday to Sunday 10:00 to 14:00 hrs. The staff are helpful. There is a pad of Nerja town maps on the counter, help yourself to one if the office is busy.
If you are considering visiting this town you will be interested to check the latest weather forecast for the next few days from the table below.
Disco TIBU, Puerto Banus is situated at the Plaza Antonio Banderas, between El Corté Ingles ad the main Puerto Banus Marina complex. If you like house music, then Tibu is one of the better clubs in Puerto Banus. Big beds on the roof terrace of TIBU add to the ambience of this established Nightclub which is part of the Linnekers group. Open until late. Locally known just as 'TIBU', this is one of the larger night clubs in Puerto Banus and attracts clubbers from all over the Costa del Sol. Prepaid table packages for arrivals before 01.00 hrs are available. There are different theme nights in the summer.
When a Non-EU National takes up residence in Spain they may import their household possessions free of customs duty. This is a once only concession. It is not dependent on the purchase of property.
Cortijo La Torre uses the cold extraction method to obtain their olive oil, which has gathered over 125 international awards for its quality. The tradition and long experience of more than a century in the cultivation, collection and obtaining of oil allows Cortijo La Torre.
Once the nucleus of Arroyo de la Miel, Plaza España is a delightful small square tucked away off the main pedestrianized area of the town. The square is entered though an 18th century archway known as the Portal de San Carlos. On the right, as one passes through the archway (which bears the coat of arms of Arroyo de la Miel's founder), a tiled wall offers information and painted images of the square's history.
One of Seville’s most amazing attractions can be enjoyed free of charge as you walk the streets: more than 14,000 bitter orange trees that decorate the “calles” and infuse this charming city with the heavenly scent of their blossoms every spring. In fact, these ornamental, bitter orange trees outnumber every other species of tree in the city of Seville.
In Andalucia, the hotel star-rating system is overseen by the Consejeria de Turismo (actually Consejería de Turismo, Regeneración, Justicia y Administración Local ) of the Junta de Andalucia (regional government's Ministry of Tourism and Sport). A new hotel star rating system was published in May 2020 (Decree 13/2020 and 14/2021), long overdue since it had remained largely unchanged since 1984.
Hornacinas are arched niches that are usually cut into the thickness of a wall.
Coín is situated in the fertile valley of the rio Grande and there is little doubt that a community of some kind existed on the spot long before the Roman conquest. Nevertheless, it was the Romans who gave it the first name which has survived: Lacibis. It became a market town: a transition point for the minerals being quarried 5 kilometres or so to the south in the Sierra Blanca.
There is no shortage of places to go in the evening. Hotel cocktail bars offer comfortable and sophisticated surroundings for a quiet drink or not so quiet, jazz performance or other live band. For a more informal evening, almost every street in town has wine bars and lively cosmopolitan pubs. Later you might dance into the small hours at one of Gibraltar's trendy disco pubs or enjoy a flutter at the Casino.
This small sixteenth-century chapel was built on the initiative of Francisca and Mencía Fajardo, sisters of the Marquis de los Vélez, and became the funeral chapel for part of the family. It was built between 1573 and 1577 by Gabriel Ruiz Tahuste, together with the carpenters Gabriel Halcón, Juan Alonso Quevedo and Francisco Martínez.
A bi-annual event during the first two weeks in August on even years there is an art festival in Genalguacil called "Los Encuentros de Arte del Valle del Genal", and prize-winning works of art are created by 'Artists in residence' and placed on permanent public display throughout the village afterwards. Here is an overview of the Los Encuentros de Arte del Valle del Genal.
Columbus set forth for his historical voyage from the port of Palos, in the western Andalusian province of Huelva. The navigator took with him his dreams of discovery. His crew, who came from Palos and neighbouring Moguer, took more practical things, such as dried tuna, legumes and, of course, a good supply of Huelva wine.
See below a selection of excellent excursions from Aquadulce to interesting locations in the countryside. The perfect opportunity to see some of the interesting aspects of Andalucia culture without the hassle of having to organise them yourself.
Popular festivals in Cástaras are Fiestas en Honor a San Blas, Fietsas de la Virgen de Fátima and Chiscos de San Antón.
The town of Moclinejo is set on a peak of the Piedras Blancas hills, between olive groves, almond groves and vineyards. The town is also the starting point of the Ruta de la Pasa (Raisin Route). The town has strong Muslim origins, although the meaning of its name is not clear. It may have come about when inhabitants from Moclín, a town in Granada, moved to Moclinejo.
Spain has a high standard of university level education while some of the most prestigious national universities can be found in Andalucia. Indeed, the universities at Granada and Seville are widely considered to be amongst the best in Spain.
This small chapel was built at the end of the 1950s and measures about 3x8m, with Neo-Gothic reminiscences, false vaults, two pointed windows in the front and a curious shell-shaped roof over the altar. It is located inside a simple house-convent.
Information about the cinemas in Rota.
