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Eugenio Cabezas
Nerja's fire station was officially opened last Friday. The service will cover Nerja, Maro and Frigiliana, with a combined population of 40,000 people. This figure, however, can triple during the summer months. Three firefighters are
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Eugenio Cabezas nerja
Last weekend Nerja celebrated San Antón with traditional bonfires in the streets. Locals and visitors fought off the cold around the bonfires and barbecues with the help of sweet muscat wine. According to the tradition the fires are lit in the street
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A. FRIAS/E. CABEZAS
A man drowned earlier this week after jumping into the sea from a small boat as it approached a beach known as Molino del Papel, in Maro. He was one of 35 immigrants on board the semi-rigid boat, which was reported to have left Bouyafar in Morocco
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JENNIE RHODES
Although Halloween celebrations are becoming more commonplace in the Axarquía a with town halls organising events such as fancy dress parades, nowhere puts on a Halloween party quite like the small village of Maro, which belongs to Nerja. ... INFORMATION When: 31 October Where: Maro / Caleta Contact: Facebook: Maroween. For Caleta: www.velezmalaga.es Each year residents decorate the streets on 31 October and, along with hundreds of visitors, go all out with an array of terrifying and
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EUGENIO CABEZAS NERJA
Three local men claim to have been harassed by a large group of people who were camping illegally on Maro beach. One of them needed hospital treatment for injuries sustained when he was allegedly attacked by one of the campers he refers to as
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Eugenio Cabezas NERJA
Meetings have been taking place in the last week between Nerja town hall and landowners, La Sociedad Azucarera Larios SA (Salsa), to try to reach an agreement over the controversial Maro golf course development. Councillors met with representatives ... former mayor, José Alberto Armijo. In a separate meeting, last Friday residents’ group ‘Another Nerja and Maro is possible’ (otro Nerja y Maro es posible), which opposes the golf course plans, met with members of the Izquierda Unida political party, ... purposes. There is support for the project, which if it went ahead, would include an 18-hole golf course, 680 homes and a number of luxury hotels, from ‘Maro Golf, Proyecto Turístico de Gran Caldo para Nuestro Municipio,’ (Maro Golf, major tourist project
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Eugenio Cabezas
An 81-year-old Danish man died on Sunday after falling from a cliff in a rocky area of Las Alberquillas beach in the Maro-Cerro Gordo nature reserve. The emergency services tried to revive the man, who was taking a walk with his wife, but he had
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NEIL HESKETH
...competition, as did nearby Sabinillas. In the Axarquía's Torre del Mar, a ghost train in the town centre was among the variety of attractions laid on, while along the coast, Maro, outside Nerja, was this year celebrating the innovative 'Maroween' .
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...traditional spooky celebrations to today, Friday, after yesterday's All Saints' Day public holiday. In these two towns the events begin at 6pm. Traditional scary events planned for Maro, near Nerja have been moved to Saturday evening. Temperatures are
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Jennie Rhodes nerja
...on Saturday, was spotted near the Maro /Nerja caves exit by a lorry driver on Sunday evening who alerted the police.