The Other Spot

Benalmádena is one of many white villages that decorate the provinces of Malaga and Cadiz. As Mijas, Frigiliana, or round, so keep that flavor Andalusian whitewashed houses and white, its cobbled streets and historic plazas that invite collected with a good book in your hands, admiring the landscape that stretches out before the hearing .

Located on the outskirts of the Sierra de Mijas, and the Mediterranean Sea at its feet, Benalmadena is divided into three distinct areas: Benalmadena Pueblo, Benalmadena Costa and Arroyo de la Miel. The first, the people, extends to the foothills of the Sierra and is what keeps that special charm that offer all these peoples for their traditional and local flavor. At approximately 30 kilometers from Málaga, the leading Nacional 340 Cadiz, first going through Arroyo de la Miel and then move near the Tivoli amusement park to reach it.

To reach the best monument of the village, the church of Santo Domingo, enter through the Calle Real. This is a lovely cobbled street with houses and flowers in their latticed windows. From souvenir shops to get a small and secluded place where the bars and restaurants stand to enjoy a pleasant meal. From there, reach the square where stands the Catholic church of St. Dominic, the seventeenth century, is reduced to climb a street last breathe the same air as so characteristic arabesque hope the strong smell of jasmine in the spring offer that wonderful smell tourists.

Beside the church there is a viewpoint that it offers, from 300 meters high on which stands the village, boasting views of the entire coastline from Malaga, and, with this viewpoint, some gardens designed by César Manrique: Wall gardens.

Benalmadena Costa, by contrast, offers the tourist and cosmopolitan version of the whole people. Hosted at the foot of Benalmadena Pueblo, near the coast, all day and night (and a lot of it has) is distributed based on the coastal road. Restaurants, bars, nightclubs, entertainment and tourist hotels.

Highlight a visit to the Castillo del Bil Bil, Arabic style and reddish tones on the outside, with tiles and bas-reliefs, which offer tourists Nazari that classic style that can be seen in several Andalusian monuments. However, its construction dates from the early twentieth century by private initiative, but finally, today, is dedicated to exhibitions, museums, lectures, concerts and even civil weddings by the beautiful environment in which it stands.

The Archeological Museum offers the finest collection of pre-Columbian art from Europe and the Neolithic and Roman works and is there was a time when Benalmádena became one of the most important prehistoric settlements of that time.

Moreover, the Parque de la Paloma or surprising Colomares Castle, built between 1987 and 1994 in honor of the discovery of America, are other views that we let in Benalmadena.

So let’s say it Benalmadena, with its division between coast and interior, a town that offers a wide variety of cultural activities, tastes, smells, and differing views, with the interior so cute and the Andalusian coast as tourist and set .