MALAGA
CAPITAL CITY OF THE COSTA DEL SOL
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álaga is today the fifth capital in Spain and a very vital part of Andalusia. Its history, culture, university, archaeological and monumental richness, fully opened to the world, Malaga the capital of the Costa del Sol, centre of the international tourism, with its Technological Park, -an open door to the future -, its splendid communications, the international airport Pablo Picasso one of the busiest in Spain, and an open door to the international tourism to the Costa del Sol, and definitively, that special way of life, truly expressed during the Holy Week and the August fair, showing the philosophy of a people permanently and absolutely devoted to the secular habits the Malaguenian feel to its truly roots. Add to those reasons the mildness of its climate, its fantastic beaches, its great gastronomy, its popular culture and the friendship of its people, who convert everything into fondness, and will understand why everybody feel at home in Malaga.
Málaga, abridgement of art and living together, birth place of so illustrious men as Pablo Picasso, Cánovas del Castillo, Ibn Gabirol, Espinel, the Marquis of Salamanca, Manuel Alexandre (who though born in Seville, always lives in Málaga), and many other famous men who, for very long time spread the Malaguenian industry all over the world, though today is the tourism the most important industry for the whole area.
The Malaguenian being, is found in its Holy Week, with that impressed brotherhoods movement which make Malaga to shake itself during the celebration of the procession of their monumental thrones through the town streets and squares..
August feasts, pure sample of the living together of the Malaguenians, transmitted through the air by the notes of the "verdiales", -the most typical Malagenian music-, with ancient resonance and deep feeling, and transporting us closer to that "Malaga cantaora", sometime immersing people into the history, and other time projecting them into the future.
What a pleasure to enjoy during these days, or in any occasion, the soup of anchovies, Malaguenian soup, gazpachuelo, garlic soup, gachas, cabbage stew, stewinpan of vermicelli, and other exquisite plates of the rich cuisine of Malaga.
Today communicated with access through motorways and highways to everywhere; the airport, which is projected with ambition, to cover future exigencies until the year 2050, together with the railway station and the port, complete an exceptional connection centre, not only to its own service, but to the
whole province and mainly to the Costa del Sol, with its huge traffic of passengers.
