YOUR HOLIDAYS IN SPAIN: HOLIDAYS IN SPAIN: MALAGA A GREAT PLACE TO VISIT

Malaga is a beautiful Spanish port city capital of the province holding the same name. As most of you will already know Malaga is part of Andalusia the Spanish region that lies in the southern part of the country. With its 561,250 inhabitants in 2007 Malaga is the sixth most populated city in Spain and the second in Andalusia after Seville.

Malaga is located in the Western corner of the Mediterranean Sea no more than 100 kms away from the Strait of Gibraltar. As far as demography is concerned and .besides being the capital, Malaga is the most populated urban area of the group of towns located along the 180-km stretch of Mediterranean coastline known as “Costa del Sol”. Malaga has bidded to become European capital of culture in 2016. The city of Malaga is surrounded by a mountain range called “Montes de Malaga”. Two rivers, Guadalmedina and Guadalhorce, flow across the city coming out into the Mediterranean Sea.

How to get to Malaga?

There are commercial flights from any part of the World to Madrid-Barajas airport. Once in Madrid you have to go to Madrid-Atocha railway station where you can take a fast train to Malaga and enjoy a comfortable trip to the city.

Another possibility for tourists is to travel by plane directly to Malaga airport. Malaga airport is 8 kms away from the city centre. Between the airport facilities we must highlight its two terminals. Terminal A used for domestic flights and flights within the European Community and Terminal B used for flights coming from the rest of the world. The airport can also deal with private flights and is also fitted with an important commercial area. You can get more information at:

Malaga airport
Avenida García Morato s/n, 29004 Málaga
e-mail: lutrilla@aena.es
Web: http://www.aena.es/

What attractions can you visit if you decide to spend a couple of days in Malaga?

Picasso Museum

The Cathedral of Malaga
Exhibition Roman Malaga
Gibralfaro Castle
Alcazaba (Arab citadel)
La Concepción botanical garden
Roman Theater
Museo de las artes y las costumbres (Art and popular customs Museum)

Marqués de Larios street is a famous meeting point and shopping place. It’s also a well known place to taste the wonderful tapas (finger food). Antigua Casa de Guardia tavern, founded in 1840, is the temple of dry wine, white wine and muscatel (sweet wine). We suggest to accompany your wine with a portion of winkles (6€) or lobster tail (2.10 €). Lo Güeno tavern (Marin Garcia Street) brags about having the widest range of tapas in the city. Breadcrumbs (2.40 €), beans with rabbit (2€) and broad beans (3€) are amongst its specialties. They offer an assortment of tapas for 10.80€. Gorki (Strachan St 6) is an always crowded place famous for its delicatessen. Orellana (Moreno Monroy St 5) is a classic bar dating back from 1937. Ask for its delicious bartolitos (fish coated with egg and breadcrumbs), ligeritas (assorted small sandwiches) and cuttlefish brochettes. At Rincon tavern (pasaje de Chinitas) you will be able to taste excellent brochettes of shrimps (2.50 €) and a plate of pescaito frito (fried small fish) for only 3€.

Restaurants

Malaga’s gastronomy is amongst the most typical ones in the Mediterranean region. Above all we have to highlight its delicious fish, a typical dish of Malaga’s coastline. Sardines, anchovies and soles are typical dishes from this area of Andalusia with gazpacho (soup of tomatoes and peppers) also holding a relevant position.

Beaches

We can distinguish three different types of beaches in the city of Malaga, each one of them with different features. The first group includes those beaches located in the easternmost part of the city up to Rincon de la Victoria where Axarquía beach starts.

Another group is composed of the beaches that stretch from the port of Malaga to the recreational port of El Candado.

The third group goes from the bed of the Guadalmedina River to the limit with the town of Torremolinos. These are wide, long sandy beaches with a substratum of siliceous stone. In average they have a slope of 14%, a width of about 30-45 metres and a length of 15,000 metres. Included in this group are the beaches of San Andres, Misericordia, Guadalhorce, Guadalmar y Campo de Golf. There are works currently going on in the extension of the Antonio Machado promenade to Guadalimar in order to link it with the western part of the “Costa del Sol”.