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British company Intu presented detailed plans to Torremolinos town hall as it pushes ahead with its project to build a large-scale shopping and leisure complex on the outskirts of the town, close to the Palacio de Congresos. The plans presented by
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Antonio Javier López
August. Francés is now the curator of this exhibition which is entitled 'Aquí a lo lejos' in which Lacomba focuses on Doñana's physical space to project a "universal landscape". The exhibition is open until 30 August, from Tuesday to Sunday, 9am
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Benalmádena town hall has awarded a one-million-euro contract which will see 14.5 kilometres of the municipality's roads resurfaced. This measure comes as part of the council's 50-million-euro investment in public infrastructure, announced last wee
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The council in Vélez-Málaga has announced that it is revisiting its plans for three stretches of coastal pathway along the N-340 road between Chilches and Benajarafe after Malaga province's Diputación rejected the project last week. The provincial ... authority's ambitious 'Senda Litoral' project to have a coastal walkway the length of the Costa del Sol. Protests Spokesperson for the Chilches and Benajarafe residents group, Olga Rodríguez, said that members were "in shock" over the decision. The group ... coastal path," and added that locals "don't deserve the treatment they are receiving". The three sections included in the project make up a 2.4km stretch between the arroyo de Chilches and Las Adelfas to the west of Benajarafe. The plans include seven
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Eugenio Cabezas
Nerja town hall will debate the construction of a new library at its next full council meeting. The land for the new project currently belongs to the town's José del Peso Blanco foundation and is located next to the Salvador church on Calle ... November to discuss the acquisition of the land. The foundation welcomed the plan for a new library as they consider it to be "compatible with their cultural objectives". The Nerja cave foundation will also be collaborating financially in the project and
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...around the house. The concept was picked up by Malaga's San Telmo Art School which launched a project to let the imagination run free without leaving home. The project looks at social networks (Instagram and Facebook) and encourages all users to ... initiative comes a self-portrait, this one by Gustave Courbet, reinterpreted by Manolo Martínez; a Piet Mondrian composition by Exento Desing; and Magritte's The Lovers, seen through the eyes of @sr._inquieto. To view the contributions to the project, open
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The AOVE Spain project aims to become not only a reference site for the sector but also a vehicle for training at different levels with the possibility of completing online courses related to the culinary applications of extra virgin olive oil.
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Eugenio Cabezas
A platform set up to oppose plans to build a golf course, luxury homes and hotels on land near Maro has collected 1,200 signatures since Nerja Town Hall announced it was reinitiating the project at the end of March. More than 2,300 people have
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Pilar Martínez
Some 25 per cent of hotels in Malaga province won't reopen as a result of the coronavirus crisis. This is the view of the president of the Costa del Sol Hoteliers' Association (Aehcos), Luis Callejón Suñé. Costa del Sol launches video in Eng
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Mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, marked the beginning of an 18-month construction project to give new life to the former La Fonda restaurant (and latterly catering school) by laying the foundation stone for a new hotel-restaurant on Monday. ... When finished, the hotel will cover 1,448 square metres with 20 rooms and suites. Tesrol Property have made a 7.5-million-euro investment in the project which will bring together cuisine and history. Three existing buildings from different eras form ... will be a restaurant called La Fondona that will serve international cuisine, as well as two bars on the hotel patio and on the roof of the building's northern wing. Muñoz highlighted that the project will "allow us to recover part of our recent
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...public bodies contributing financially to the project came together for a photo call as the symbolic first brick was put in place. Then mayor of Malaga Celia Villalobos was joined by José Nuñez from the regional Junta de Andalucía; Luis Vázquez ... Alfarache, then president of Malaga's provincial authority, the Diputación; as well as Antonio Martín Martín, the secretary of state for Sport at the time. Villalobos said on the day that the arena was "an aspiration of all Malagueños". The project had
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Malaga Port chief Carlos Rubio on Wednesday. Rubio, who is critical of the potential impact of the project to build 15 high-rise towers on the port's logistical activities, presented his objections at the meeting during which it was agreed that the ... project couldn't go forward in its current incarnation. The compromise reached was that the land currently allocated for office space could be increased to up to 50,000 square metres (currently 26,500). This would also mean the construction of taller
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...who first came to Spain in 1978, have decided to use their finca in Mijas to run Back to La Tierra, a project that involves various permaculture principles to create a food forest. "Back to La Tierra is a soul driven project where we bring together ... the couple have dedicated their lives to the project since 2018. Over the last 12 months, they have planted over 30 trees and designed rainwater catchment systems to prevent having to irrigate in summer. They have also finalised their plant filter ... system to filter their own wastewater. "Whilst we wait for politicians to start implementing serious measures to contribute to the climate agenda, individuals are increasingly starting up their own projects. Ours is a lifelong project that will never
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Rincón de la Victoria town hall signed an agreement earlier this week with the University of Malaga's foundation, FGUMA, to roll out a yearlong project which aims to involve citizens across Malaga province. FGUMA's objective is to bring the
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Tony Bryant
...homes, and archaeologists and real estate promotors are working to ensure the correct integration of the ruins and the new development. The ruins, thought to be more than two thousand years old, were uncovered during the 1960s. The project, which is
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...together with renowned local astronomer Alberto Castro-Tirado and the multinational Sky Skan, which specialises in the construction of planetariums. Their project, which obtained a higher technical and viability score than that of Jaén firm AstroÁndalus, ... also offered a higher annual fee for the use of the land - 115,000 euros. The team of businessmen who won the contract have assured SUR that the difficulties posed by the pandemic will have no bearing on their ability to carry out the project. Once
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Debbie Bartlett
Travel and the transportation of goods in south-west Spain became much easier after 13 March 1861, when the railway line between Seville and Cadiz was inaugurated. The project had been planned some years earlier but it turned out to be problematic ... 1854 the plans for the southern section were approved. All appeared to be going well, but then it was discovered that the project was illegal because there had been no special allocation of funds for it under the State Budget and the awarding of the
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Tony Bryant
After nine months of extensive infrastructure work, the Torremolinos Cercanías station has entered phase two of its renovation project. In order to progress with the work, platform two has now been closed, so passengers for Malaga and Fuengirola ... must both now use platform one. One of the main priorities of the project is to install new elevators and escalators to allow easy access for travellers with mobility problems and those with heavy luggage. Torremolinos town hall has emphasised that
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project is aimed at discovering and nurturing new writing and acting talent on the Costa del Sol. Budding playwrights have been invited to submit a script for a 15-minute play, which can be of any drama genre except musical. The scripts will be judged by
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...and expansion project which has cost 25 million euros over the past two years. It is the first hotel in Spain to announce its reopening after the pandemic. José Navas, the director of Hilton's most luxurious hotel on the Costa del Sol, believes