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Advantages living in Malaga |
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 Advantages living in Málaga
• Malaga is a port town located at the Costa del Sol.
• Malaga is known as an open, hospitable, travelling and commercial city to all visitors.
• Malaga is surrounded by mountains, and two rivers, the Guadalhorce and the Guadalmedina, which flow near the city into the Mediterranean Sea.
• Each year Malaga has a large number of visitors, because of its popularity as a tourist destination.
Transportation• Malaga serves as a major port and an industrial centre for southern of Spain. That’s one of the reasons why they have an international airport, which also serves as a gateway to all other town in Andalusia. The airport welcomes up to 10 million visitors in a typical year. There are various very cheap charter flights offered to and from Malaga.
• Other cities of Andalusia, like Granada, Sevilla and Cordoba, can easy be reached from Malaga by car, bus or train.
Weather• People come to visit Malaga for its fine beaches and the good weather, where the sun almost shines all times of the year.
• The average maximum temperature in Malaga is around 30°C in the months July and August, and the coldest temperatures are around 16°C/17°C in the months December, January and February.
Leisure & culture• Sports fanatics will find top-rate facilities for watersports, skiing, horseback riding, and golf.
• Malaga offers cultural events, like the New Picasso Museum, concerts and events at the famous Cervantes Theatre which are all within close reach.
• Malaga has the best known folklore: the Flamenco dance and song.
• Historic attraction of Malaga are the the Alcazaba, a Muslim Fort, the castle on Mount Gibralfaro, but also the old centre of Malaga with is Moorish remains are worth to visit.
• Malaga has many narrow streets which are full with tapas-bars and bodegas. Bodegas are old fashioned wine shops where you can have the local sweet wine which is similar to Port.
• The wine bars (bar de copas) and the nightclubs are full of young people in the weekends. The people enjoy the thriving nightlife which will continue till the morning light.
• In October Malaga celebrates the colorful feria when the town really comes to live with fino (dry sherry); the flamenco and much fun which carries for a week from dawn to dusk.
Cooking & drinking
• Malaga is famous for its fried fish ('pescadito frito'), which is an assortment including 'chanquetes and chopitos', red mullet and small sardines.
• Malaga has an own variety of gazpacho – cold soup – called 'ajoblanco', made with moscatel grapes and almonds.
• Málaga’s cuisine is made up of plenty of local dishes: 'Porra antequerana', 'Embutidos de la sierra' (mountain sausages), 'Patatas en ajopelo' (potato dish), 'Habas a la rondeña' (Ronda style broad beans) and ‘Pimientos a la malagueña' (Malaga style peppers).
• Malaga is famous for its sweet varieties of wines, made from the grapes of Antequera, La Axarquía, in the mountains of Malaga; the 'Aguardiente de Ojén' a renowned liquor. |
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