Monday, March 18th, 2013
The port of Malaga is one of the top 50 most-visited cruise ports in the world, according to new figures.
Malaga comes in at number 44 in the list of the ports which receive the largest number of visiting cruise ship passengers. This is especially good news with the recent opening ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
[caption id="attachment_8948" align="aligncenter" width="407" caption="A view of the Carmen Thyssen museum: Malaga Vision by Isabel Rosado."][/caption]
[caption id="attachment_8946" align="aligncenter" width="407" caption="Jul.iah! by Beatriz Ros and Violeta Niebla has a hidden extra factor which you can only see on the website, or on the postcard itself."][/caption]
[caption id="attachment_8947" align="aligncenter" width="407" caption="Malaga Color, by ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2012
[caption id="attachment_4652" align="aligncenter" width="578" caption="Which is your favourite beach in southern Spain? Many people like to kick back on the white sands of Bolonia (number 2)."][/caption]
A (freebie) Spanish newspaper website started a "ranking" of Andalucia's beaches a few weeks ago.
The ranking works on a points system - you score each ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
I was astonished to read recently that the Spanish government is going to oblige shops in some cities to stay open for longer hours, and double the number of Sundays and public holidays - including Malaga, Cordoba, Granada and Sevilla.
When I first arrived here in Spain almost nine years ago, ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_3953" align="aligncenter" width="433" caption="Dani Garcia, the Next Big Thing on the New York restaurant scene."][/caption]
While Ferran Adria is the undisputed king of Spanish gastronomy, noone would disagree that the crown of Andalucian kitchen creativity belongs to Dani Garcia.
The Marbellan chef has two Michelin stars for his restaurant Calima in ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_6892" align="aligncenter" width="433" caption="Impressively well-kept: Calle Larios, Malaga's main shopping street."][/caption]
Earlier this month, I saw a letter to The Daily Telegraph, the UK's favourite Tory broadsheet rag, reprinted in my favourite news magazine The Week in their "Pick of the week's correspondence". Since it was in praise of Malaga, ...
Posted in Current affairs, Economy, Living in Andalucia | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 4th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_6584" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Baroness Thyssen, Jesús Nuñez, of San Miguel, and Fernando de la Torre, mayor of Malaga, in the San Miguel beer factory."][/caption]
GUEST POST: REBEKAH THOMPSON
Museo Carmen Thyssen is a recently-opened art gallery in Málaga with paintings from Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza´s personal collection, which she and her late ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_6296" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Algeciras-Marbella section of proposed new high-speed coastal railway, Corredor Ferroviario Mediterraneo."][/caption]
The latest plans for the new train route known as the "Corredor Ferroviario Mediterraneo", or Mediterranean Rail Corridor, have been announced. The first project for strategic freight transportation was approved by the Government in March last ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
[caption id="attachment_6191" align="aligncenter" width="433" caption="Malaga cathedral, part of the city centre's conjunto historico."][/caption]
The Junta de Andalucia has declared the city centre of Malaga to be a conjunto historico, inscribing it in the Catálogo General del Patrimonio Histórico Andaluz - the General Catalogue of Historic Andalucian Heritage.
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_5949" align="aligncenter" width="578" caption="The town of Cortes de la Frontera near Ronda has a stunning setting, below steep limestone cliffs."][/caption]
After all the hustle and bustle, crowds and excitement, of Semana Santa, my family and I went to the sierra for the last part of the week. I still kept tabs on ...
Posted in family, Geography, Nature, Travel Andalucia | 2 Comments »
