Why Visit Málaga?

Why visit this beutiful town? This town is great beacause it has tons of tourisme and visitors . Málaga is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain.

It was great atractions like museums, monuments, a great historic patrominial, beaches and great activites like windsurfing schools or spanish schools to learn spanish in your holidays.

Malaga City has much to offer a tourist, not only is it the cosmopolitan capital of the Costa del Sol it also has kilometres of beautiful sandy beaches. The beaches are all situated along the Promenade of Pablo Ruiz Picasso which is lined with bars and restaurants where you can sample Malagueño produce and culture at its best. Malagueta and La Caleta are the busiest beaches.

Beaches in Málaga

LA MALAGUETA beach.

This is a very large man made beach, it is accessed via the Pablo Picasso promenade whose bars and restaurants are busy day and night. It has a view of the fishing area where you can see the fisherman untangling their nets. There are a number of Chiringuitos offering a selection of drinks and Tapas. Facilities include: disabled access, warning advice, hire of sunbeds and parasols, parking, public telephone, showers, W.C and a children´s play area. This beach is the closest to the city centre located to the east of the port.

PLAYA SAN ANDRES beach.

This long 2km beach lies to the west of port and the mouth of the river Guadalmar. It can be seen miles away for the tall chimneys of the old sugar factories. Backed by a promenade and seafront highway. Ample number of beach bars, Dubious distinction of location of the execution of Torrijos and Boyd and fellow revolutionaries in 1831.

PEDRALEJO beach.

This beach is clean and family friendly. It is a Blue Flag beach. Facilities include: disabled access, hire of sunbeds and parasols, showers, first aid point, life guard, warning advice bins, parking, public telephones, and a childrens play area

BAÑOS DEL CARMEN beach.

This beach is situated on the Seafront of the city. It is a small beach, found along the Promenade of Pablo Ruiz Picasso. It´s facilities include: Bins, Parking, and Chiringuitos (beach bars). It is a popular fishing beach as ther eis a slight promentary. It is the location of the old bathing pavilion awaiting restoration.

EL PALO beach.

This beach is family friendly, the shoreline has been reconstructed to maximise the space, and

improve the beach area. Facilities include: showers, bins, bar restaurants, parking and a public telephone. Sunbeds and parasols are available to hire. It is accessed by the promenade. It is a very popular beach for diving and fishing. Restaurants offer locally sourced fresh fish.

LA CALETA beach.

This beach is adjacent to La Malagueta, it is 1km long and paralell to the high rise flats of Malaga City, it is fully accessible for wheelchair users. Facilities include: First aid centre, hire of parasols and sunbeds, showers, W.C, Parking, Pedalo hire, warning advice and a public telephone. This beach is famously very clean.

GUADALMAR beach.

This beach is backed by a Golf Course belonging to the Parador Malaga Golf Hotel and sits right under the Airport flight path. It is close to the Guadalmar Uranization. It is an official Malaga nudistbeach, and frequented by mixed bathers. Facilities include: showers, off road parking, beach bar anda public telephone.

Museums in Málaga

Museo Picasso MálagaMuseo Picasso Málaga, located at the Palacio de los Condes de Buenavista.If you visit the Museo Picasso Málaga, The Picasso Museum in the city of Malaga is located in Buenavista Palace, a historic building, example of civil architecture of the time of Ferdinand and Isabella after visiting Malaga. Their cultural role is old because it hosted during the XIX century Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Malaga until 96 became the headquarters of the Picasso Museum, which would come in 2003, in the heart of the city of Malaga.

Centre Pompidou Málaga

Museo Carmen Thyssen,

located at Palacio de Villalón.

Museo de MálagaFine Arts and Archeology museum at the Palacio de la Aduana.

CAC Málaga (museum of modern art). The most visited museum in Andalusia.

Fundación Picasso Picasso Birthplace Museum.

Spanish Schools in Málaga. One of the best options to visit malaga is to do a spanish course, you will get a great holidays and

Alhambra Instituto is the perfect place to take Spanish courses in Spain: Malaga experiences the warmest winters of any European city with attractions, such as the lovely beaches, architectural sites, and art museums. The perfect city to learn Spanish in Spain.

Málaga is also very interesting for long term Spanish courses or End semester Spanish courses beacause the weathers is fantastic all the year.

Many seniors students from all the world chose malaga to improve their spanish while they enjoy a fantastic holydays with tons of activities during the afternoons.

Malaga historyMálaga's history spans about 2,800 years, making it one of the oldest cities in the world. It was founded by the Phoenicians as Malaka about 770 BC, and from the 6th century BC was under the hegemony of Ancient Carthage. Then from 218 BC it was ruled by the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire as Malaca (Latin). After the fall of the empire it was under Islamic domination

as Mālaqah (مالقة) for 800 years, but in 1487 it again came under Christian rule in the Reconquista. The archaeological remains and monuments from the Phoenician, Roman, Arabic and Christian erasmake the historic center of the city an "open museum", displaying its history of more than 3,000 years.

This important cultural infrastructure and the artistic heritage have culminated in the nomination of Málaga as a candidate for the 2016 European Capital of Culture.

The internationally acclaimed painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso, Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol and actor Antonio Banderas were born in Málaga. The magnum opus of Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, "Malagueña", is named for the music of this region of Spain.

I hope you like this beautiful town and you could came one day ¡¡