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The Junta de Andalucía has approved new opening times including extended free entrance to La Cueva del Tesoro in Rincón de la Victoria. As of 15 September, entrance will be free to 60 people from 10 to 11am, Monday to Friday. Tourism councillor
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Rincón de la Victoria town hall has announced that it is launching a 12-month promotional campaign of the town's Cueva del Tesoro. Following record visitor numbers last week, the town hall has signed a contract with Go Go Cards to distribute promo
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...this visit, Gozalbes explained that in one of the caves there is a Mozarabic church with three naves and several niches, and on the part of the wall by the altar there are numerous inscriptions and signs from the Mozarabic era, although they are barely ... perceptible now. He said the alignment of the writing and almost uniform height of the words could mean that it relates to a particular time, and that would have to be researched and dated. The other five caves which have been excavated were basically ... Arcusves association.PILAR R. QUIRÓS Local residents are excited about the discovery. They now want these caves to be preserved and an information centre to be built there, and they are watching the site day and night to prevent anyone trying to loot it. In
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Malaga city council has agreed to give extra planning protection to historic caves in the Churriana area, near the airport, that are under threat from housing developments. The caves in the Gamera Baja-Tosca area were used as dwellings and places
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Flamenco singer Estrella Morente captured the hearts of her audience with her recital of love songs last weekend at the Nerja Caves music festival.
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The 60th International Nerja Caves Festival of Music and Dance is running until 3 August with a programme of classical, flamenco and rock music on offer in the cave itself and in the gardens of the venue. INFORMATION What: Nerja caves 60th ... Festival of Music and Dance. Where: Nerja caves. Full programme and tickets: www.cuevadenerja.es Award-winning dancer, Rocío Molina, who was born in Torre del Mar (1984); and Concerto Málaga, who were nominated for a Latin Grammy for their 2018
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Eugenio Cabezas
The Nerja caves provided the stage for Malaga's main event to mark World Autism Day on Tuesday. The caves' discoverers were joined by the Nerja Caves Foundation director, Chema Domínguez, Malaga's autism association president, José Reyes and ... an autistic boy from the UK, in which he describes the world as he sees it. A number of town halls took part in the day by lighting up their public buildings in blue. Malaga Airport's control tower and the central column in the Nerja caves were
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Debbie Bartlett
...excavations in Gorham's and Vanguard's caves will last for three months instead of two, thanks to the inclusion of the students from Leiden. The team will be supervised by Gibraltar National Museum personnel. A similar collaboration with Liverpool's John
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Eugenio Cabezas
The Nerja caves and museum foundation has initiated plans to build a 4,000 square metre outdoor auditorium in the gardens of the popular tourist attraction. The project is to coincide with both the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the caves ... and the same anniversary of the annual international music and dance festival, also held at the site. More and more performances are held outside the caves rather than inside in order to preserve them.
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The four surviving discoverers of the Cueva de Nerja, along with the widow of the fifth man, José Luis Barbero, who died in 2007, were reunited at the historical site last Friday to mark the 60th anniversary of their discovery. On 12 January 1959,