Malaga City

Malaga is a cosmopolitan city, capital of the Costa del Sol, was founded by the Phoenicians, and has since been inhabited by Greeks, Romans and Arabs. The city was conquered by the Catholic Monarchs in 1487. It is famous for its incomplete cathedral (known as "the manquita"), The Alcazaba (a castle Arabic), Gibralfaro (a fortress) its beautiful gardens and the coastal environment. The famous painter Pablo Picasso was born in this beautiful city and his home is a very popular tourist attraction. Malaga is also the city with the second largest port in Spain, and in fact one of the most important trade centers in the country. Malaga is a candidate for European Capital of Culture in 2016. Two rivers, the Guadalmedina and Guadalhorce, pass through the city leading to the Mediterranean.

Along with the adjacent towns of Malaga, Torremolinos and Benalmadena Costa, offers wide variety of services and elections for natives and tourists: class golf courses, theaters, restaurants, tapas bars, flamenco tablaos and bullfights. Of course, it also has miles of beaches and a wonderful time, which makes tourism back year after year. Its infrastructure superbly designed, makes it easy access to other cities such as Granada, Seville and Cordoba, either by road, air, train or boat. A modern airport, allows multiple destinations, such as all European capitals, United States, Asia and, ultimately, anywhere in the world.

Malaga center is quite moving, modern and classical merge in Marques de Larios, Plaza de la Constitution and Calle de Granada, which form the main shopping and nightlife area. The streets nearby are a maze filled with tapas bars and wineries, in addition to stores where you can buy wine included the sweet wine of the area. The weekend can be a lot of young people who go to bars and pubs to enjoy the Malaga nightlife. Malagan night people do not usually go out before midnight, sometimes not return home until sunrise, and exploit something for breakfast on the way. This contrast is due to the type of life that takes heart in Malaga, on the one hand, the busy port and industry, and secondly, Malaga is one of the most important tourist destinations in the world. We would like to mention its importance by the Center for Contemporary Art in Malaga, Malaga CAC is the emblem of the commitment to contemporary art from the City of Malaga that has as its objective the dissemination of the visual arts and visual since the last third of the twentieth century until today. The opening of the CAC Malaga has created new possibilities in the field of culture of southern Spain, by becoming a landmark international art. Also noteworthy is the strength of the city in new technology industries, mainly located in the Technological Park of Andalusia. The city is headquarters of the international association of technology parks IASP, Malaga Valley E27 project that seeks to make Malaga the "Silicon Valley" of Europe. We would like to mention also the Malaga Club de Futbol playing in La Liga. The main railway station is Malaga Maria Zambrano, which is connected to Madrid by train from Atocha. In December 2007, the AVE high speed train went into service, reducing travel time to Madrid just two and a half hours. The city has two train lines, one is the suburban and the other is the subway, but by the moment the suburban is under construction. Buses are the main means of transportation inside the city.

Easter in the city comes alive with the Malaga Holy Week and the streets are alive until the early hours with music from the processions carrying the thrones. Easter is one of the festivities for more durability and most popular in Spain and abroad, so much so that sometimes the population grows until it reaches almost doubled.

Another big event is the Feria de Malaga, which is held in August and is known for being the second largest trade fair in Europe.During a week the people of the city and visitors celebrate the Feria de Malaga, where people dance, drink and have fun in the historic oldtown of Malaga. The celebration begins at noon near Larios on the street that becomes a pedestrian, until 6 or 7 pm.

The streets fill with people enjoying the celebration, among the abundance of food and beverages. Later the festival takes a break until 11 or 12 at night, and then moved to the fairgrounds, outside the city center. The fair has a few bars temporarily empowered to call booths and most of them do flamenco shows as in the rest of the fair.

Malaga is tradition, culture, sun, restaurants, beaches, etc, etc, but we can not overlook the great love for the sport that we live in Malaga. It has one of the best teams in basketball, Unicaja with numerous trophies to their backs, among which the ACB League 2005/2006. The team plays in the Martin Carpena Sports Palace, which was built to meet the high demand for localities to follow the matches. On the same day of its premiere the full quota. Currently has about 10,000 locations.

There are many things to see and do in Malaga if you're interested in history, nature, art, sports .. or just good food! The city has extensive sports facilities, numerous cultural events and concerts, bullfights, a theater and film. We'd like to recommend some of the things to do in Malaga:

• Gibralfaro Castle
• Roman Theatre
• Alcazaba
• The Cathedral
• Harbour
• Picasso Foundation
• Picasso Museum
• CAC Malaga
• Bullring

Malaga Pictures

• Malaga Photo Gallery