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untamed nature TEBA: THE LANDSCAPE OF THE DELICATE BATTLE 94

The gentleman has carried the heart of their king from Scotland. Track to the Holy Land with the intention to bury him in Jerusalem. In Seville, before boarding, a young English king, Alfonso XI, called to enroll in a new crusade, fight against the Muslim kingdom of Granada to permanently expel Al-Andalus and the peninsula. The Scottish champion accepts, accepts, not knowing who will die in the Malaga area. It was Sir James Douglas, the right hand of the first king of Scotland, Robert Bruce, heir to the independence aspirations of the renowned William Wallace, and found the sword wielding death at the foot of the Castle of Teba. Ran on 25 August 1330.

As a hill, a beacon, a landmark on the plain full of undulating green. Stands the castle of the Star on the natural way that communicates the lands of Sevilla to Malaga, a must, natural corridor that the human use since prehistoric times and had its greatest historical reference in the border battles between Muslims and Christians . These camps are scattered ancient blood, rich in history and capital sensitive stories. So the land arising from the keys of the past in a Roman statues, Neolithic flint tools, pottery Phoenician. And all I watch tower of the castle. Stone and masonry that looked spindly spears battles and now seeing the slow spin of modern windmills. Teba belonged to the network last frontier of Christendom, defense and cutting edge since its conquest, August 30 1330, where Alfonso XI the Arabs conquered and has since been Christian. We note the tower up there and we see a bodyguard walking in the battlements. Arrival



Since Teba is reposed on a valley and whose largest city is the castle height of the Star, we chose to first visit the walled city and the interpretive center "crusades in Guadalteba" that occupies the interior of the tower and the castle. From Málaga by the road linking the capital with campillos Ronda we have strayed to take after the indication of Teba. From afar and can see the magnificent tower that is increasingly larger as we approach. It's awesome. Ascend to the village and follow the signs indicating "Castillo de la Estrella" to climb a series of steep, winding streets until you reach a parking lot next to the wall. We supplies, and in the cold morning of January that covers the sky with clouds inlaid we realize that we are in a special place, peppered with history. The landscape that lies before us short of breath. We looked up, we see the entrance to the complex, smile and go.

A crusade in
Guadalteba
Before accessing the interior of the castle we walked widely in the castle grounds. We will know later that, along with Bentomiz, of Teba is the largest fortress in Malaga with an area of \u200b\u200b25,000 square meters. It is impressive, as impressive is the scenery, landscape of strong color contrasts, green, ocher, blue, gray ... A sea of \u200b\u200bwaves on the tower that appears to float. Exceptional as any, certainly geostrategic point of reference. After delight, we . The interpretive center is part of the Heritage Network Guadalteba as all museums is cured in much detail. In this case the reconstruction is exquisitely detailed and careful to provide visitors all information without damaging the heritage. Entrance costs 3 euros and we have to say that we pay very comfortable, especially after the very full explanations offered by the center manager, Serafin who is with us at all times to provide an exact context.
thus learn the real significance of the Castle of the Star in Muslim-Christian wars, we know that is built in the twelfth century, in the Almohad period, while Sevilla were built the Giralda and the Torre del Oro, which had 18 towers and three doors one of them octagonal and one square, that the late seventeenth century the church was dismantled in inside and with these materials to build the new center of town, that keep, built in the fifteenth century preserved in 80%, that Teba was referring to the route that connected Sevilla and Malaga and Granada to Algeciras, which was part of a defensive belt configured by Teba, Cañete la Real, Cuevas del Becerro, Ardales, Turon Castle and the Borough ... A myriad of stories that make up the history of the region with the presence, if unabated, Teba castle. Serafin explains why the name of the center, "crusades in Guadalteba." In 1330, the young English King Alfonso XI wanted print out to conquer the Star Castle in Muslim hands, the character of holy war, crusade, in order to claim the papal bulls that allows greater numbers of troops and economic resources. Granted and if there is jihad in Jerusalem, so you can say without equivocation that there was in the region of Guadalteba Malaga. We go inside the fortress, slowly, delighting . We watched a video and the explanations above all is enshrined as a puzzle, we can see perfectly the reason for the interest of this country, we know more about the figure of Sir James Douglas, savoring the story with gusto. Is this an ideal visit for kids (not too small) and traveling on the inside of the tower and the perimeter of the castle, leaving the imagination. But do so carefully because within the two knights castle hidden hide ... We left seething imagination ...

The center of town, part

descend on the car to the center of town and parked in a street. Despite its size, Teba can go perfectly to the foot and most attractions are more or less concentrated. We parked on the street and gained access San Cristóbal Grande Street to Race Street. From here everything is a breeze. Grande descend down the street to cross in front of the church, we reach the junction with Herradores Street, where we visit the Chapel of Jesus of Nazareth, to turn right to the Constitution Square, where we see the cover of what was home of the Empress Eugenia de Montijo, city hall and splendid we stop to visit the Archaeological Museum, located in City Hall. Then continue the tour.
said than done and traced the route on the map and the GPS mobile phone started our visit to the city center.
The church of Santa Cruz Real is an imposing building. As noted earlier, many of the materials that were removed was build the ancient temple that housed the castle grounds. That temple was dismantled, literally, and moved to the center of town for Jose Tirado, master mason of the cathedral of Seville, the design and build. Work was carried out between 1699 and 1715. Inside, three ships, protruding red marble columns eight feet high arches that support the subject. The red marble was not removed, as is believed, the Torcal de Antequera, but nearby quarries and the Romans used for carving statues, and will point us later in the Archaeological Museum. Even with all the church is impressive, a colossal building. Inside the church is the Sacred Art Museum with a collection rather than leading, among which are chalices, beggars, crosses, chalices, lecterns, sacral, etc ... But the jewel in the crown is the cross appeal that is taken in procession on festival tebeñas, a piece of rich and thoughtful style. The museum also has a rain coat and a suit of the fourteenth century that may have belonged to Queen Isabella. We went to the strong cold January and walk down the street Grande to meet the Hermitage of Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno, a contemporary building that houses inside the headquarters of the Brotherhood of the same name.
Access the Constitution Square from the street to Herradores meet face to face with the magnificent door of a house that seems almost suspended in the air and made of cottony material color of a sunrise, given its tone red and pink. Is the front of the home county of the Empress Eugenia de Montijo, which still stands above the lintel and the two columns is suspended. It is more than clarifying what he had to be the rest of the house and the historical power of the House of Alba. Between the frame of this door that opens into the void we see the grounds of City Hall, which is also Municipal Archaeological Museum and deserves a special mention.

Full stop. The Municipal Archaeological Museum

His complete collection is of incalculable historical value. The museum is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 12.00 to 14.00 and from 18.30 to 20.30 hours on weekdays by appointment at 952 74 80 20 for opening and tour members are responsible Association for the Protection of Historical Heritage of Teba, Atiba Hisn. The entrance to the museum costs $ 1.20 and only through the door is worth it. The Archaeological Museum of Teba makes a stunning journey through the history of the town a collection of flint tools, primitive pottery, buttons lead, anthropomorphic figures, instruments surgical, thimbles and buckles ... dwell in their showcases the years of Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Christians who inhabited this area and men and women before the same story living fire and breaking stones for other ... And among all these pieces a few gems, like the figure of a ram, an image of the museum itself, a beautiful Roman column dedicated to Augusta Victoria goddess, and an almost translucent marble portrait of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. We visit, advised to detail with knowledge and passion for Atiba Hins members, the various exhibition spaces so talked of history and stories of Teba, their former inhabitants and not both, of social unrest in the quarry, the importance of heritage conservation and recovery of the Cueva de las Palomas, the Iberian town of Castillejos, the Roman farmhouse Tajos and, of course, Sir James Douglas and his life and death struggles and ideals. Not surprisingly, the association has been the promoter of the Days of Sir James Douglas or Douglas's Days, which pays tribute to this distinguished character and theatrical performance of its history, with horses, Templars, men dressed in his trademark coat of arms, and a large group of Scottish citizens also offer a tribute to the hero of Teba. We continue talking and talking and talking and talking we would, but we must continue the visit.

The center of town, part

We joined back to Grande Street becomes San Francisco street and climb, just a hundred yards we came to the Plaza of Spain, where we found another traces of Sir James Douglas. A gray stone that can be read in both English and English as follows: "Way of the Cross died fighting Sir James Douglas the Moors by King Alfonso XI landed near the castle della Teba Star August 25 1330. Lealísimo knight of King Robert I of Scotland and optimal champion in the wars of independence, Sir James the Good pilgrimage to the Holy Land under oath to consecrate the real heart of the deliverer of Scotland at the altar of the church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem. " From the square in Spain we cover in the former convent of San Francisco, get a very storied and now has other uses. Even with all is the presence of outstanding importance and high status of the convent, built in the fifteenth century Moorish style. Returned
a la plaza de España y descendemos por la calle Nueva hasta cruzar por delante de la casa del marqués de Greñina, de cuyo esplendor queda una portada apabullante en los recursos empleados para edificarla, tras la puertas podemos ver el gran patio interior que alberga la casa. El portal parece un sueño, de hecho es la entrada a un palacete, denominación más apropiada para la vivienda del marqués de Greñina. Dos columnas serias, con un dintel sobresaliente interrumpido por un pequeño altar. Destaca su color crema frente al marrón oscuro de la puerta y el blanco inmaculado de las paredes.
Desde aquí nos perdemos, deambulamos, intentamos digerir tantas historias como hoy con han contado, paseamos, walk, slowly, slowly, we realized that we had entered some appetite. To end the day, we travel by car to the restaurant Diego, located at kilometer 5.5 of the road between Ronda Ardales.

Food


We have recommended and recommendations are almost always right and sometimes a full hit, as is the case. In the parking lot and are a large group of parked cars. We went in and serve us wonderfully. The menu is extensive and replete with traditional food, including dishes include meat, lamb, pork and asparagus with garden and bush. I do not think. Asparagus soup, lamb, beef tenderloin stuffed with shrimp, two drinks, two bottles of water, two espressos, one with ice and one of them twice. Total 46.50 euros. The soup is delicious and complete. Inquire about the ingredients, then we confirm. Asparagus, egg, onion, green and red peppers, garlic, tomato, a secret ... majaíllo is delicious. Like the lamb, accompanied by a garnish of roasted tomatoes, vegetables and fried potatoes. The boldest course is the fillet stuffed with shrimp. Delicate hollandaise sauce together, strong and soft at once. Buenos cafés and two separate shots of liquor without alcohol. The friendly and very considerate. To repeat.



Farewell Even with the head full of stories and appetite left behind filled Teba. In the rearview mirror you can see the Castle of the Star, which is getting smaller, smaller, smaller, and even if you are about to disappear behind a green CRUV seems unassailable.

Practical Information and links

Fair Cheese: The cheese makers Andalusia come together in Teba to showcase their products at the Fair Market Cheese. The best cheeses and most prestigious appellations of origin in Spain are the main attractions of the Fair-Market Artisan Cheese Teba. Involving some 50 companies distributed by the 70 market stalls, most dairies, some typical products of the local cuisine such as sausages and pastries, and where it is expected the attendance of some 10,000 people. In addition to tasting and direct sales, visitors can enjoy a varied program of activities, leisure and tourism as a complement. 2 and 3 October. (Information from the municipal website)
Days Sir James Douglas: 18 and 19 September 2010 Scottish conferences are held in Teba. Since 2005 Days have been held Sir James Douglas to commemorate the death of this famous Scottish earl in making the Star Castle. Over the two days celebrating various cultural activities, fun and festive with an important participation of the British community in the Costa del Sol and Gibraltar. During the congress, it recreates the medieval ambience of the town's streets. It installs a market which offer typical of the municipality. The Association of Scottish Pipers of Gibraltar and the Banda Municipal de Teba play Celtic music. (Information from the municipal website)
Links: We take as reference the website of the Tourist Board Costa del Sol, the municipal website Teba, the Network of Guadalteba Heritage Association and Atiba Hins.

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MIJAS: OR THE ANCIENT TRADITION OF TOURISM 93

Boats on the horizon, mirroring on a sea of \u200b\u200bliquid silver. Look at that man the boats come and go. They are tiny in the distance. Sash bearing his job, his sandals. The tasks of the field have been especially hard today. You feel tired. Rests on a stone and let the midday sun will catch the bones, you warm the skin. The donkey grazes and herbs hobble around. The man directs our gaze to the road leading to the coast and see them go. They are a young couple, very young. Pelo largo ambos, rubísimo, casi blanco. Lleva camisa abierta de flores él, gafas de sol oscuras y grandes. El pelo recogido en una coleta que se asemeja a una cascada sobre los hombros, sombrero de paja, una sonrisa resplandeciente, ella. Saludan en un idioma que el hombre no conoce. Sonríen. Ella se acerca al burro y lo acaricia despacio. Le pasa la mano por la testuz, por la quijada. Él explica por señas al hombre que a ella le gustaría montarse. El hombre comprende pero no entiende. ¿Quién se quiere montar en un burro por placer? Asiente. Ayuda. Ella se sube y el burro comienza a andar, remoloneando. Ella se ríe, él también. El hombre sonríe y mira. Un grupo de otros ten tourists blond, azulísimos eyes, young, floral shirts come down the road. All point to the woman riding astride a donkey. Clap. Man looks at the donkey and the woman, then looks to the group. The man realizes and understands. Smile.

Mijas, a balconied

approach on the Costa del Sol, Mijas is a privileged view of tight and perfume houses of Andalusia. Aloma of the saw is carried looks the same name and face to face in the mirror Mediterranean. Perhaps that position right on the coast and the sea made Mijas see the flow of tourists arrive sooner than other nearby towns and thus adapted to the newcomers in a practical and effective dramatically. It is the Mijas donkey taxi, the museum of miniatures, the whim of the arena ... The bridgehead to show the tourist passenger, that of a short stay, which come and go. Mijas But beyond that appearance. Under the claims and tinsel town is a white, Arab millimeter path of long side streets that are combined with outstanding short and hard, broken and twisted. All in immaculate white, white sober but full details of thrust, of solemnity, of honesty. We welcome today in this beautiful journey to Mijas and Mijas surface and the beautiful, deep and authentic. Arrival



rebound in the months of tourist is not easy to park in Mijas, in the streets. The historic center is virtually impassable by car. The streets are narrow and the flow of travelers and tourists are always numerous. The best option is to park in the large public parking, clearly marked, and in the center of town has ten floors of parking. That we do and despite a long visit in Mijas rates were not particularly expensive. It has the advantage, moreover, that its main output mouth is next the Office of Tourism, visit essential and necessary for Mijas meet in private. With a broad and continuous time, the office is open from 9:00 to 19:00 hours in winter and from 9:00 to 20:00 in summer. Saturday from 9:00 to 14:00 and Sunday closed. The phone is 952.58.90.34 and email is turismo@mijas.es. Entered. The staff serves us very nicely and gives us a complete and very simple level in which there is a street with two marked routes ahead (a red and known as a trade route that runs through the center and another, broader color yellow known as a tourist route and extending horizons a bit beyond) and a brief description of the monuments to visit behind. The map is very useful and we blindly follow the itinerary. We left and headed to the left. At that moment two busloads of retirees. They are Catalans, Mollet.

The donkey-taxi

started the visit with a more typical topic of Mijas, the donkey taxi. A simple idea that has brought international fame to Mijas as this transport is known to the world. Prices and fees are outlined in an information panel in English, French, German and Japanese. The tour of the town costs 10 euros and 15 euros donkey-drawn carriage pulled by donkeys. Each has its number Identification in the form of plaque that hangs over the eyes of the animal. Indeed, they are clean and shiny, harnessed with brightly colored equipment. Expect, somebody decides tamely mounted on them. The donkey-taxis are a unique example of public transport which originated in the early sixties of the twentieth century. Many of the holidaymakers who visited Mijas at that time asked the field workers returning mounted on donkeys and mules photographed with them as a souvenir of Andalusia, the most daring even to the field worker asked for a ride uploaded to them. The visitors offered to large farmers tips, many times greater than their salaries, so do not hesitate to spend some of their time to professionalize what had become a tourist rite. Taxi donkeys are an institution in Mijas, currently preserved in more than fifty of them and have put their own parking spaces in the Avenida Virgen de la Peña s / n. For more information, call 627 026 958 phone. Although that may seem like a story, the donkey-taxi arouse much attention. The large group of retired tourists the heels we all morning stops and laughs, pet animals under the watchful eye of the keeper, and celebrate their wildest adornment asked to take a picture mounted on them. A donkey braying and the echo resounds beyond the next shrine of the Virgen de la Peña.

Compass El Mirador and the shrine of the Virgen de la Peña

On the left of the donkey-taxis are the viewpoint of the Compass and the shrine of the Virgen de la Peña. They are both a spectacular set. The chapel, rock, excavated inside a rocky looks perfectly Cave. Silhouetted against the winter sky and the picture looks taken from a time immemorial, as if a rock Mozarabic church is involved. Dug into the rock, the shrine seems torn from the mountain as if he had emptied a substantial part of the rock and replaced by elements of greater spirituality. Legend the Virgen de la Peña remained hidden in the same place for five centuries until it was discovered in 1586 by a bricklayer, father of two pastors who were guided to the place by a dove. Inside, dark and quiet is composed of two chambers. The first, worship, presided over the altar with an image of the Virgin, the second houses a museum with religious elements at least, mitres, vestments, etc ... The silence is absolute. Burning candles to stay granted a vague sense of antiquity. The interior is at this time decorated with poinsettias, bright red to give a touch red inside. A row consists of four banks full gold inside the chapel. We left. On the left is a small store also Cave where you can get many memories of the chapel as scapulars, rosaries, postcards, etc ... The Hermitage is a bastion that sits above the rest of the Mirador del Compass, built on a natural vantage point and that looms, stranded on the Costa del Sol is a privileged balcony lookout, open to the West as a bulwark. Today, this morning, the mists have taken the skyline. The sea hides thinning, after the fog, and nearby towns seem absorbed by marine clouds. Rested, we bent over the railing to look at this portion of the coast of Malaga this morning seems ethereal, volatile, subtle.

The Max Wagon

From the viewpoint, we went up the avenue compass to check something clearly incredible. What looks like an old train car is stranded on a cross against the white houses of the city center. It is painted yellow and brown. On the roof looks the name: Carromato of Max. Looks like a spell, the play of a juggler, a magician. Could it be, perhaps, a hypnotic illusion. We rub our eyes in a pantomime, we know what is the Max and Carromato know who was Professor Max. Responded to the real name of John Miller and was elected a hypnotist hypnotist and remarkable success. His stage name was Professor Max. In 1972 he settled in Mijas and brought with him a rarity, a true museum of the little things, nothing more and nothing less than a museum of miniatures, where you are extolling the least, the delicacy of the small, the achievement of artists able to paint a picture of a pinhead, to carve a dancer at the head of a match. The museum admission 3 euros per person for adults and 0.90 euros for children. The Max Wagon is open from nine o'clock until seven o'clock. We pay, we run a curtain and we enter the world of the minute. The exhibition is protected by a series of glass domes. In each set out a thumbnail, a small oddity. Since the bust of Abraham Lincoln painted on a pinhead, a copy of the Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci on a grain of rice, a dancer carved with precision in a match head or disturbing, and reduced human head a Jivaro Indian. The Max Wagon is a diversion, a curiosity. Explanatory panel says which is the result of multiple trips, contacts between different human beings, tribes anchored in time "is an ode to the adventure." We put on tiptoe, glue the nose to the windows, look through the magnifying and see the world drawn on a button.

La Plaza de Toros

From Max Wagon we move into the urban center of town. Mijas village is a tourist strongly that this item has its main economic asset. Nevertheless, the essence of Andalusia fagotiza not like in other places. Mijas has not lost its charm of quaintness Andalusian whitewashed houses, whitewashed walls, narrow streets ... However, in its path cocktail mixed in the accents of most diverse backgrounds with the lilting accent Malaga. We verified the presence of a large group of Eastern tourists who photograph with delight every corner and now understand why the poster of the donkey-taxi is also written in Japanese. Mijas is aseadísima, cleans like crazy, perfectly manicured, as if the streets had been polished before opening a curtain
roads to follow in our path is well marked. We crossed the square of the Constitution and go up the street to the right until you reach the Plaza de Toros. Entered, and is a temple. Bullfighting is a celebration, memories and anniversaries, names of murderers and gangs, memorable run, a stuffed bull appears to be alive. Men and women who wish to be bullfighters may be photographed for a moment before a large image that lacks the face in which the visitor can enter your head and click-click-click as a matador ephemeral and eternal. We can not resist . We christened "Ojen Oliverita" and "Antonia Marbellera." Albero is accessible, step into the arena and the impact it produces is reflected in the face of some tourists. It is an old bullring, built in 1900 and is more curious its shape is oval. We climbed the steps after going through the door of pens, the rendering plant, the pens. We sat in the chair and took a white handkerchief in the air shake. From the square is the Mijas mountains, always present, and the Church of the Immaculate Conception. After a windlass, a chicuelinas and natural veronica topped the chest pass a clean exit.

The Wall, the gardens, the gazebo, the church ...

Before directing our steps toward the church, we walked through the walls and the lookout. The views, despite the mist is clearing and subtle, are spectacular. The Western Costa del Sol opens before us, the center of Fuengirola and the mountains east first, the sea, the developments ... The gardens, balconied on the block, they are very careful. A once in a while a bank overlooking the sea. We are surprised at the cut part in two walks and has been tame, terraced on a series of balconies by falling water. The views are staggering and the quiet ride and delightful, lush thanks to the amount of plants, trees and flowers that decorate it and make it up. We lavish in slow walking. Enjoy. From the promenade you access to the Church of the Immaculate Conception who chairs the esplanade between the marina and the pit bulls of the ravine which is based on viewpoint. It is estimated that the temple was built between 1541 and 1565 on the ruins of an old mosque and castle, but underwent a thorough restoration in 1992, when they were discovered in a series of frescoes dating back to 1632. We left the church and take Calle Murillo, passed under the arches and doorways of the People's University to connect with the Coin Street that we go towards the district of Santana.

Barrio de Santana

mass tourism seems removed from this area of \u200b\u200bMijas, leading to a more authentic life Mijas, perhaps without much fuss but equally beautiful. It seems that ethereal neighborhood thanks to the very white walls that make up its streets. Neat, with no apparent frills to be discovered deep into the streets that cross the main road. We walk, we salute our neighbors who belong to us kindly. At the end of the street we see the shrine of Our Lady of Remedies presiding Seven Square Pipes. The temple is popularly known as the hermitage of Santana and was built in the eighteenth century. It is simple, but with character. Two men are sitting beside her, his back to the source of the Seven Pipes of today no water. Breathe in the aroma of pure neighborhood authenticity. The streets that are based on the recover the broken main route classical Arabic layout. Exploit the walls with truffled pots of flowers, colorful pots, blue, red, green ... Many plants. Short stretches of stairs that lead to hidden courtyards meager, flowery streets or corners cut. Rumor sounds of everyday life that winds through the streets of Water, Sierra Larga del Palmar, Nuñez Sedeño Alegre, Olivo, del Pilar, Cruz ... From the latter we have access to a viewpoint at the top of downtown, on the road to Coin and offers an excellent overview of all Mijas first, second and coastal sea to the horizon. Today mists give a magical, almost symbolic of this coast's last name for most of the year, "the Sun." We returned to the streets and write down the names of the houses as Falhala, Casa View, Margarita, My Grandfather, cave, Romans ....

Ethnographic Museum or the reconstruction of everyday life

descend along Calle San Sebastián to Liberty Square, home to the church of San Sebastian and the Ethnographic Museum. The church, corner and away from the madding crowd through a screen located at the entrance hidden inside a building simple, simple, of a single ship, frequented by Mijas and Mijas with its strategic location in the center of town. On the side of the church, which was occupied for years the municipality of Mijas, is the Ethnographic Museum., The Museum, because it is in fact the recreation of a house in a recent past that we often forget and which is reconstructed in detail the life early twentieth century with the tools, everyday tools and implements. It is a wonderful visit. The rooms are divided into different activities, so we can visit an old oven, a bedroom complete with pot included, flour mill and the recreation of some field work. Accompanied, in many cases of models in explaining how the work carried out. It's a return to the past, a look back at how things were a few decades ago, a life that our grandparents have lived a full and glancing our parents, a past that is part of this current. The group of retirees move in and enjoy Mollet, many of them recognize the tools and explain to others, younger, what they were, how they were used. They smile to remember that that bed was the same as it was in Grandma's room and the bowl identical to the grandfather used to wash every morning. We were delighted with the visit. We left the museum and we are at the heart of a trade route, where a number of shops with souvenirs and crafts of all kinds, taste, color and condition our attention. The municipality of Mijas, as explained by an acquaintance who found wandering Mijas, has been careful to give the stores the same aesthetic sense to not break the harmony of white people. For example, all the sheets covering the entrance to the shops are equal and cream. Walk the streets and went into some shops, you see, check. This is also part of the visit to Mijas browse, view, buy some crafts, a souvenir. And so we gave so delightful. Farewell



strolled through the terraced pit of the viewpoints and the Mediterranean look to us as a magnetic presence. A huge calm sheet of water, a great and resounding mirror where it may come Ptolemy, a geographer at the School of Alexandria, who was appointed in his writings to this city of Tamisa for the first time in the second century AD that was Tamisa Roman and thanks to its proximity to the Via Appia, which linked Cadiz and Malaga, had a more remarkable activity. Mixa was soon after the Arab arrival of the armies of the Maghreb and in 714 AD and was displayed as an outstanding city. And then Mijas, which was passed to General Torrijos on December 2, 1831 after the people's liberties and ended with the blood of its soldiers poured on the sand. Those streets are what we walk the streets of history and the past, the streets of present and future. Mijas lives since its knoll, watching civilization go and how she remains without change the course of time over his appearance and his character, adding a line to your story alive.

Other information and links

La Cala de Mijas and The Gaps: The municipality of Mijas down from the mountains to the sea and comprises three core populations among which are, in addition to Mijas, La Cala de Mijas and Las Lagunas. Two urban centers for tourism and residential resort with attachment to the beaches and sun. Precisely in La Cala de Mijas is located Center Interpreting Watchtowers, home addition to the Office of Tourism of the core population. The interpretive center is intended to give life to the Tower of the Creek, which after a careful restoration housed inside the museum that examines the importance, function and history of the lookout towers mark the Mijas coastline. It is made by the Board of the World, the room Torrijos and Traditional Fisheries Board. Interpretation Center of the Watchtowers is in Tower Street s / n, Cala de Mijas. During the winter schedule is: Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 10:00 to 14:00 and 16:00 to 19:00. In summer schedule goes: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 20:00 to 23:00. Admission is free. For more information, please call (+34) 952 59 03 80. (Photo taken from the website Mijas)
Other leisure activities: The Mijas Racecourse ( http://www.hipodromocostadelsol.es/ ) is considered one of the best and most complete in Spain. In addition to horse racing classic, the venue also hosts musical performances and has several restaurants. Races are held every Sunday morning in the winter and on Saturday night in the summer. Mijas municipality account in a Water Park ( http://www.aquamijas.com/ ) fully equipped and has the classic slides of different heights and speeds, plus a full service restaurant and hospitality.
Links: We take as reference the website of the Board Tourism on the Costa del Sol, Nerja municipal website and the other addresses that appeared in this article, very useful in preparing the visit.

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