• 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.
