Malaga
Welcome to Malaga, Andalusia, Spain.
The city with the longest tradition on the Costa del Sol.
Malaga is a city, municipality of Spain and capital of the province, located in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is the sixth most populated in Spain.
Located to the south, in the west of the peninsula and on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, 100 km east of the Strait of Gibraltar. It extends over the Montes de Málaga and the Guadalhorce Valley.
Founded by the Phoenicians in the VIII century a. C.
It was first a federated municipality, and then Latin right of the Roman Empire, later a prosperous Medina Andalusí, four times the capital of its own kingdom, and finally incorporated into the Crown of Castile in 1487.
Malaga is a cultural city with 30 museums. Malaga is full of anecdotes and history.
Here you can find impressive places full of curiosities. Málaga is an art and city of artists, such as: Antonio Molina, singer and flamenco singer, Pablo Picasso Pintor, actor Antonio Banderas, Salvador Rueda Spanish poet, Pepa Flores actress, Pablo Alborán singer composer, Dani Rovira humorist and actor, Chiquito de la Calzada humorist, Antonio Montiel painter, Manuel Bandera actor and dancer, Miguel de Molina singer, Duo sacapuntas humorist, Diana Navarro singer, Rafaela Aparicio actress, Manuel Alcantara poet, writer and journalist, Manuel Altolaguirre poet, Vanesa Martín singer, Pasión Vega singer, Vicente Espinel writer and musician, Emilio Prados poet, Pepón Nieto actor, Pedro Espinosa poet, Chambao musical band, Rocío Cortés singer, Nuria Fergó singer, Carlos Alvarez opera singer, Pablo Puyol singer and actor, El Koala singer, Antequera singer girl, Invisible dance musical group, Nuria González actress, Anabel Conde singer, Butterfly effect musical group, Bibiana Fernández actress and presenter, Fran Perea actor and singer, Ma. Teresa Campos presenter, Jaime Ordoñez actor, singer Tijeritas, Maria Barranco actress and many others.
It has a Mediterranean climate, with an average temperature of 18.5 ° C. The winter is soft, although humid, which gives a greater feeling of cold. The summers however are hot and humid, except when the terral blows, since the dry wind of the interior can shoot temperatures up to 44 ° C.
It is a very well connected city, with the International Airport of Malaga, one of the busiest in Spain. It has a Train Station; "Málaga María Zambrano", which is at the same time "Vialia" Shopping Center, has AVE, AVANT, MD medium distance and Cercanías fast trains. It has a metro station and a bus station with different lines to travel through Spain and the EU, as well as interurban transport to make trips within the municipality and neighboring towns. There are taxi and bicycle services to get around the city.
Andalusia Avenue is the main artery where most of the traffic flows into the Alameda Central, a walk with trees (ficus bicentenarios), located opposite the historic center,
Among the places to visit and know are; tour the old town, visit the Picasso Museum, the Thyssen Museum, the Alcazaba of Málaga and its Nazarí Wall, the Prehistoric Park of Malaga or the Archaeological Site of the Spider, the Atarazanas Market (built in iron with a Nazari arch from the 14th century) ), The Pergola of the Palm Grove of Surprises located in the Marina, which receives large-scale tourist boats. It has abundant buildings of civil and religious architecture.
Málaga borders Torremolinos to the west and has 16 beaches: San Julián, Guadalmar and Guadalhorce, La Misericordia, San Andrés and Huelin, La Malagueta with blue flag and La Caleta, Baños del Carmen and the beaches of Pedregalejo, El Palo and El Padlock, the Spider and the Peñón del Cuervo.
His people are cheerful, open, smiling, friendly and very sociable. Proud of their customs and local jokes, which gives the impression of being very campechanos and unproductive, a generality falsely extended.
The traditional gastronomy of Malaga is marinara, influenced by Phoenicians, Arabs and Castiglianos. It is common to see on the table the typical Malaga salad made with boiled potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, oranges and herring, washed down with olive oil.
They have delicious cold soups for the summer like ajoblanco, gazpacho andaluz, porra antequerana and zoque.
Among their hot soups are white fish soup, gazpachuelo, almond soup, cachorreña soup, asparagus, perotas soups, traditional alora, monkfish soup, tomato soup, vine soup, maimones, coquina soup, etc.
Another dish from Buenos Aires is fried sin fried or cooked, the famous sardines that are eaten on the beach.
