Costa del Sol

The Costa del Sol, or Sun Coast, stretches along the province of Málaga and enjoys more than 300 sunny days a year. It combines beach resorts with whitewashed hill villages. Visit Mijas, famous for its donkey taxis and views, the caves and balconies of Nerja and the family attractions of Benalmádena, including Selwo Marina and the cable car up Mount Calamorro. Málaga airport makes the coast one of the easiest holiday destinations in Spain.

Spanish Coasts

Costa del Sol travel guide - Picasso’s Málaga, Marbella’s old town and white villages above the sea

Twenty minutes after you leave the arrivals hall, you can be eating sardines grilled on a fishing boat, with your feet in the sand.The Costa del Sol is the...
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Best time to visit the Benalmádena cable car - Calamorro summit views, walking trails and birds of prey

On a clear winter morning you can stand on one mountaintop and see two continents, a snow-capped sierra...
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Selwo Marina tickets, opening hours and dolphin show times

Outside, it's 30 °C on the Costa del Sol. Behind one glass wall, a colony of king penguins...
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First time in Nerja? The Balcón de Europa, a cave of giant columns and coves below the Maro cliffs

In January 1959, five young men went hunting for bats in a sinkhole above the sea. What they...
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From Mijas Pueblo to La Cala - Whitewashed lanes, Picasso ceramics and a seaside boardwalk

What do an oval bullring, a chapel cut into a cliff and a ballerina carved from a toothpick...

Benalmadena beyond the beach - A white village, a cable car and the Costa del Sol’s most unusual marina

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Twenty minutes on the train from the airport, and you could be gliding over pine forests to a summit almost 800 metres above the...

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