• Malaga is a port town located on the Costa del Sol.
• Malaga is known as an open, hospitable, touristic 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 towns in Andalusia. The airport welcomes up to 10 million visitors in a typical year. There are various cheap charter flights offered to and from Malaga.
• Other cities of Andalusia, like Granada, Sevilla and Cordoba, can easily 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 shines almost all year round.
• The average maximum temperature in Malaga is around 30°C in July and August, and the coldest temperatures are around 16°C/17°C during 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 proximity of the city center.
• Malaga has some of the best known folklore: E.g. the song and dance of the Flamenco.
• Some historic attractions of Malaga are the the Alcazaba (a Muslim Fort), the castle on Mount Gibralfaro, but also the old center of Malaga with its Moorish remains, which are well worth a visit.
• Malaga has many narrow streets which are full with tapas-bars and bodegas. Bodegas are old fashioned wine shops where you can sample the local sweet wine (which is quite similar to port).
• The wine bars (bares de copas) and the nightclubs are full of young people at the weekends. The people enjoy the thriving nightlife which often continues until the rising of the sun.
• In October, Malaga celebrates the colourful feria when the town really comes to life with fino (dry sherry), the flamenco and hours of fun which carries on for a week from dawn till 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 its own variety of gazpacho – cold soup – called 'ajoblanco', made with moscatel grapes and almonds.
• Malaga’s cuisine is made up ofan assortment 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 and La Axarquía, in the mountains of Malaga. An example would be the 'Aguardiente de Ojén', which is a renowned local liquor.
