Business
Logana, the Axarquía jewellery company featured at Paris Fashion Week
Elia Sánchez has been designing accessories in her workshop in Chilches for nine years and has appeared in international fashion magazines
Eugenio Cabezas
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2024 review
Transport on the drawing board - trains, buses or drones?
Mobility and tourism: a look at some of the highlights of the last 12 months on the Costa del Sol and in the rest of the province of Malaga
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2024 review
Housing crisis and tourism-phobia
The year has seen numerous protests in Malaga and around Spain, calling for affordable housing as property prices soar
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2024 review
A year of extremes - from drought to floods and record temperatures
2024. Weather, tourism, housing and much more: a look at some of the highlights of the last 12 months on the Costa del Sol and in the rest of the province of Malaga
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2024 review
Lemons, demolition and new attractions
The highlights of the year in Malaga province include the demolition of the market building in Fuengirola and the new Philippe Starck oil visitor centre in Ronda
Jennie Rhodes, Tony Bryant, Rachel Haynes |
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Traditions
Traditional festive gathering of country folk in Mijas evolves into an event to attract tourists
The 'pastorales' were created as a way to announce Christmas, socialise and to fill the stomach. Now they bring a huge number of visitors to the town
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Population
Latest data shows population of Mijas has risen to over 92,000
The figures released by Spain's national institute of statistics demonstrate that the municipality has consolidated its position as the third largest in the province, only surpassed by Malaga city and Marbella
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Science
Malaga engineer's experiment to grow plants on the moon to be tested in space for first time
The Green Moon project, led by engineer José María Ortega, has reached an agreement with a space launch company to travel on a mission in 2026
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Environment
Government splashes out 120 million euros in two major Costa del Sol resorts to prevent sewage discharges
Madrid has given the green light to this huge investment to improve the infrastructures in Marbella and Estepona that have not met EU targets
María Albarral |
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Property
Foreign investment fund snaps up prime-position tourist apartments in Malaga city centre
Bukhowa International Investments, based in Bahrain, which owns real estate, hotels and restaurants all over the world, is the new owner of the building
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Health
Bid to cut the number of autopsies in Malaga
The Ministry of Justice has signed an agreement with the Junta de Andalucía's health authority in an attempt to reduce the 37% of autopsies that are deemed natural deaths
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Population
Junta offers tax breaks to help combat depopulation in 59 Malaga municipalities with fewer than 3,000 inhabitants
These include reducing some of the taxes incurred when purchasing property with the possibility of saving up to 6,750 euros
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Fire safety
Malaga firefighters to get new 54-metre turntable ladder with a reach of 17 storeys
Apart from the city, the whole of the western Costa del Sol and Torre del Mar area in the Axarquia have high-rise buildings, many of them hotels
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112 incident
Police investigate reports of man being shot in head in Benalmádena
Police units, firefighters and medics have rushed to the Torrequebrada area of the Costa del Sol town where witnesses reported seeing a hooded man fleeing the scene in a high-powered vehicle
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Tourism
Which were the most searched for cities to visit at Christmas on Booking.com?
The worldwide accommodation-booking giant has revealed where Spain and the Costa del Sol appeared in the global rankings for the festive season
Europa Press |