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Malaga Beaches   Description of Malaga  Location of Malaga  Malaga's Attractions   Nightlife in Malaga  Restaurants in Malaga  Shopping in Malaga  Transport 
Malaga Open Top City Sightseeing bus

Description of Malaga

Malaga is the main town of Andalucia on the coast and second city to Seville in the south with a population of about half a million. it's airport located between Malaga & Torremolinos is regarded as the gateway to the Costa del Sol.

Malaga is also an important port city with plenty of commercial activity. it is less of a resort than it's neighbour Torremolinos

2 of Malaga's famous sons are Antonio Banderas, the film actor and the great spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

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Location of Malaga

• Located on southern Spain's Costa del Sols Mediterranean coast

Malaga's Attractions

• Malaga's Attractions

Malaga airport

There are train/tram connections to the airport with a 30 minute service and because the airport is close to the city only takes about 12 minutes.

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Malaga Beaches

Some of the beaches are around the old fishing villages of El Palo & Pedregalejo now merged into the suburbs of eastern Malaga

Playa de la Malagueta

Located immediately to the east of the harbour

On the Open top sightseeing bus route stop number 5.

Playa Pedregalejo

Playa El Palo

La Caleta Beach

• La Caleta Beach is centrally located in front of Malaga town high rise blocks
• Sunbeds & beach umbrellas, showers, toilets, parking & disabled access are available
• There are plenty of bars & restaurants along the promenade
• Peddle boats

El Candado Beach

• Sunbeds, beach umbrellas, showers, parking & a children's playground are available
• There are plenty of beach bars
• Sports basketball, diving, fishing, sailing & windsurfing

El Palo Beach

• El Palo Beach is a more picturesque beach with a wide U shaped beach
• Sunbeds, beach umbrellas, showers, parking & disabled access are available
• Plenty of bars & restaurants on the promenade

Las Acacias Beach

• Las Acacias is a pretty wide U shaped medium size beach
• Sunbeds, beach umbrellas, showers, parking are available

Banos del Carmen Beach

• Banos del Carmen Beach is a small beach and is not as well kept as the others, can be dirty and wall have graffiti
• The wooded park is rather nice
• Fishing from the rocks
• Limited parking

La Malagueta beach

• La Malagueta beach has beautiful sand imported from the Sahara desert. maintained by breakwaters
• The beach is located in front of the outer section of the port on the north east side
• Sunbeds, beach umbrellas, showers, children's playground, toilets, parking & disabled access are available

Malaga Nightlife

• Malaga's nightlife is centred to the north east of the cathedral around Plaza de Uncibay, Calle Beatas, Calle Granada & Calle Almos
• Another centre is south of the Bullring (Plaza de Toros) in La Malagueta
• There is also a nightlife scenecentred on the seafront strip to Pedregalejo in the suburbs especially along Juan Sebastian Eleano

Malaga Shopping

• Malaga Central Market is a must visit
• Expensive boutiques and shops line the Calle Marques de Larios the main shopping street

Malaga Shopping centres

• Carrefour Alameda
• Carrefour Los Patios
• Carrefour Rosaleda
• Larios Centro
• Malaga Plaza
• Rosaleda
• Plaza Mayor

Malaga Restaurants

Try the local dish of Sardines and the regions Malaga Sweet Wine made from muscatel grapes which goes very well with shellfish

A good area for restaurants is the Avenida Pintor Sorolla  to Paseo Marítimo Antonio Machado on the seafront

Malaga Transport

Railway station RENFE

There are 3 rail lines from Malaga railway station

2 lines C1! & C2 run up and down the Costa del Sol Coast

The third line runs inland to connect to the large inland Cities

The main Railway station is located on our Malaga Attraction Map  

Bus Station

Being a large city Malaga has a selection of local bus routes and also inter city and other towns are also are conected by bus routes

Bus Station Info

Estacion de Autobuses, Paseo de los Tilos, Malaga    Tel: +34 952 350061 The bus station is located next to the main rail station

The main bus stations and bus sub stations are located on our Malaga Attraction Map  

Car Parking

Car Parking is difficult in Malaga and theft from cars is very high

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Emergency / useful Telephone numbers

Local dialling code: 952

Ambulance: 061

Fire service: 080

Police: 091

Malaga Health Centre: 952 604 266

Malaga airport: 952 048 484

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