Nerja is Blue. Blue as the summer TV series, blue as the water level in the sink their hands on the cliffs of Maro. Nerja is blue, as blue is the sea that looks the Balcony of Europe. Blue as the sky above it. Nerja is blue like the Mediterranean, sailed the Phoenicians and Romans and Arabs and Christians and privateers Ottomans. Nerja is blue and blue is Nerja. 
is a huge cavity, ripped from the bowels of the earth, lost in the silent gloom over the years. We have opened our eyes to the dark sky studded with stalactites, the stalagmites carpeted floor thorny. Cueva de Nerja breathes an aroma ancient ancestral telluric and sighed. And after visiting almost reborn warm winter sun dazzles Nerja and bright light, blue, pure sky. After the trip to the depths of the earth we peer into the pit of maro, 
cut peak falling from heights and sink into the sea pure. Then strolled through Nerja, the Balcony Europe, with the effigy of a king leaning on her balcony, sea challenges face to face. Tourism and sailor maze of streets intertwined, perfumes of fresh fish to grilled to delight drawn to the sea. His church rotunda and sunny, open parks to the mountains. We see the effigy of an old fisherman fishing on the deck of the Golden childhood memory rushes and we believe may be Chanquete. Nerja sensations, and intense blue.
La Cueva de Nerja
not miss it. From the A7 highway signs are numerous and perfectly clear and visible signage. Not surprisingly, the Cueva de Nerja is a monument Málaga province receives more visitors per year, about 500,000, and for that alone must have a minimum number of basic infrastructure. And it is. Upon our arrival we were surprised
large staff, the parking situation (1 euro) and the supply of several distractions that exist in the entry in the form of souvenir shops and restaurants. We parked and headed to the site that says "Check." All times, prices and information on the cave and the festival which is held inside the cave in July are included in the website is http://www.cuevadenerja.es/ / you can also call to your 952 529 520 where 
provides complete information. We are two people and each entry costs us 8.50 euros but the price for children between 6 and 12 years is 4.50 euros and children under 6 have free admission, there are also discounts for groups, associations, schools, etc. ... The flow of tourists and visitors is constant, permanent. We access the bowels Nerja. The Nerja Cave is a cave tamed, not as wild as those of the pool in Benaoján or Doña Trinidad Grund in Ardales. Has the advantage over the previous two that it is ready to receive any visitors, is illuminated, which helps to obtain a complete picture of enormity, and walk (approximately 700 meters) is done very easily. The Nerja Cave was discovered in 1959 when five young Maro came to known as well of Minas 
Cemetery with the intention of hunting bats. Precariously were introduced by an opening up, after spending a passage, reaching an elevation. They had reached one of the first cavity and the light of their lanterns and flashlights are lost in darkness. It opened on June 12, 1960. The rest is history. It was first known as the Cave of Wonders until it acquired the name by which it is now known, Cueva de Nerja. Despite the large number of visitors There is a great silence inside the cave 
. Heat and humidity in equal parts. We walked and we marvel at the stalactites and stalagmites, especially in the size reached in the Hall of Cataclysm, where the largest natural column in the world, 18 meters thick and 49 high, recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. The influx of visitors is important and the vast majority of schoolchildren visit Malaga on occasion the cave. Chance, we also find a couple of acquaintances. She just teacher and he caver hobby. We talked in whispers. Inside the cave is a natural stage that hosts a internationally renowned music festival. On their tables have been artists such as José Carreras, Monstserrat Caballé, Alfredo Kraus., Rostropovich and Yehudi Menuhin. We visit and we enjoyed every eccentric training rooms set up in the Ghosts or Hall of ... Ballet went out and the blue sky for a moment blind us. It seems incredible that we have been in the interior of the earth for a period of nearly forty minutes. Time has flown by. At the entrance has a camera flash, we have given a green ticket which entitles us to buy a picture. Bought it. 8 euros. Mandatory order, 0.50 euros. We went to the car. Maro and cliffs cut above the sea
La Cueva de Nerja is situated in the village of Maro and the entry of the same you can descend on foot or by bicycle for a specific green lane for these purposes and we believe that on another occasion must be a good route to follow on foot, because from here and see how the sea flashes on the blue horizon on the pristine village. While there we went to check and merge the colors blue and green and white on the sea. We address that points us 
"parking." Maro is a small hamlet that has the cliffs, its tranquility and popular livestock environment and sailor its strengths. But its main attraction is in the Natural Park of the Cliffs of Maro-Cerro Gordo. The Sierra de Almijara plunges abruptly into the sea, leading to a series of steep cliffs that fall steeply to the Mediterranean and that still remain almost untouched. Hence, the creeks are small and difficult to access, which gives them a special charm 
. Many foreign tourists who flock to Maro with their campers to enjoy the clear waters. It is worth walking a distance and near, among gardens and terraces, until one of them to enjoy an unusual area on the Costa del Sol We descend to the beach Maro, a quiet beach where four or five couples enjoy winter sunshine lying on the sand, walking, reading ... 
dip our feet in the water , fresh and walked a short distance, leaving the sea to catch us with their feelings. For a thorough understanding of the Natural Park of Maro cliffs you can hire the services of some companies that specialize in diving and snorkeling as well as kayak and canoe trips through the area, recommended by the Tourist Office, we noted firms operating throughout year, Life Adventure ( http://www.lifeadventure.es/ ) or Water Activities Burriana beach with which can be contacted at the phone 
615,974,716 or 679,942,691. After the delight we head downtown, where we visited the outside of the Ingenio de Maro, a large sugar factory (there are five in the town of Nerja), built in 1585 and was operational until the sixties nineteenth century, when a fire destroyed their facilities. Still retains its structure and form walls with blocks of travertine, arcades or a powerful buttress. The mill is located next to the parking and the plaza that houses the church of Nuestra Senora de las Maravillas. Temple is a simple, sober, built in the seventeenth century and restored in the XVIII. Coupled with a tower finished in tile dome and a small steeple to the front. The church is cut, pure white against the blue sky. Maro is breathed in an atmosphere of tranquility unusual, it seems that time does not progress, that the clocks have stopped. Chat men seeking warm sun on park benches, a couple of foreign residents greeted them with a shopping bag in hand, a group of tourists sitting at the tables with a terrace and sip a beer and a cover . We would stay. Nerja, parking
Maro We left and headed to the city center of Nerja by-340, from which, to our right, we see the aqueduct
Eagle a building that was raised Roman style to transfer water to the factories of Las Mercedes and San Joaquin. It is a four-story building of brick arches superimposed to form a total of 37 arches. She still carrying water. Once in the city center looking for the public parking Balcony of Europe is the most central and best park in Nerja, as its historic center retrieves the path ways of Arabic and is composed of several streets that intersect, most of them pedestrians. Moreover, it is especially expensive and is very close to the town hall, tourist office and at the same balcony Europe. Precisely we went to the Tourist Office, where we give an estimable amount of material, we 
attend with patience and calmness, or point on a map the places to visit and possible places to eat fish such as the restaurant the spark, the Pulguilla, the snack bar or the famous Pacomari Ayo (on the beach of Burriana) that became very famous through appearances in the series directed by Antonio Mercer, Summer Blue. We have been thrown up by noon, so we choose the nearest of the proposals, the Pacomari restaurant, situated at Gloria and that access through the Calle Pintada, one of the most populous and central Nerja full of shops, from typical souvenir shops, restaurants, lively and active. Nerja groups and foreigners sitting on its terraces. In Nerja there are a large number of foreign residents, so much so that the city celebrates the Feast Day of Resident Alien combined with the Tourist Day celebration held in April and September respectively. Border is an hour and the streets are mixed just raised that coffee and chocolate taste with churros, tourists who are eating dessert and Malaga who still revel in the snack food in the restaurant Pacomari
The choice of restaurants of Nerja is overwhelming, from the bars and restaurants with fried fish, even the international food, fast food, pizza and burgers, seafood, etc ... We reached our destination and we have a sunny terrace the urban heart of Nerja. Do not think for a moment and let the heat penetrate our bones. We ordered a garlic soup with grapes, a salad, prawns pil pil, a pink 
grilled, two beers, 
a bottle of water, two espressos, one with ice and one without ice. Total 40'70 euros. The garlic soup, refreshing sweet and spicy at the same time, with dressing just garlic and almonds are delicious and generous and pink shrimp grilled majaíllo accompanied by garlic, oil and parsley. The view includes fruit salad and pineapple, kiwi or orange to your composure. We are delighted with the food, the sun, with the terrace. The Chapel of Sorrows, the Verano Azul Park and Golden Saviour's Church and ...
after eating to have planned a ride that is a variant of the blue route is being proposed in one of the brochures that we have offered in the Office of Tourism. From the restaurant we go to the shrine of Sorrows, after walk to the Verano Azul Park dedicated to the television series directed by Antonio Mercero where the boat he was piloting The Golden Chanquete character will return to downtown to visit the church of San 
savior and looking out to finish Balcon de Europa. walked slowly, quietly, on Cross Street. The old town of Nerja is active, caring, clean, with cobbled streets, most of them left pedestrian travel sparingly and gently. Terraces enjoy the sun, the pots on balconies, flowers in the courtyards, the tiled hallways. Despite being a tourism hub of Malaga, Nerja still retains the charm of the fishing village it once was. P
size nables walk to all the sights without difficulty, to which is added that does not have slopes. This brings us to the hermitage of Sorrows. Surprised by the contrast between exterior and interior. Outside the temple is simple, a ship with a pre-entry gate formed by a triple arch and a steeple on the roof tiles. The interior features an imposing altar with a dome painted with a Pentecost. The chapel is founded in 1720. A nun greeted us our input and 
discussed with him the preciousness of the small chapel. She smiles and shows proud of the chapel. On the other side of the door is noise of clinking of pots. From the chapel we Avenue Antonio Ferrandis "Chanquete" to reach the park Verano Azul. The park, besides being an excellent children's recreation area, is great interest to the praise of the legendary series that aired on English TV from 11 October 1981 and February 14
1982, with subsequent retransmissions . The plot was simple, a group of children and their adventures and vicissitudes in the summer period in the town of Nerja, the relationships between them and with an artist named Julia (played by Mary Garralón) and an old fisherman Goby, played by Antonio Ferrandis who lived in a fishing boat on a low hill. In the park are the names of the characters like Tito or Piranha, nominating the streets of the same, the titles of the chapters of the 
series marking the parking and as the star of the park, the stranded boat where he had his La Dorada residence and abode in the bowels Chanquete. Is a must for those who were children of a generation with a very strong nostalgic component. Without wanting to, when we finished the visit still echoes in our head the tune that preceded the issuance of each chapter and has served as the soundtrack for many summers blue. From we enter the park again in the streets downtown and Provincial Jaén up to the back of the church of San Salvador. Is very near the sea and the balcony of Europe and provides a framework for a large square surrounded by trees that precedes it. There are a lot of racking in the vicinity, the proximity of the tourist office, City Hall, the terraces of some bars and restaurants, make the
temple and its surroundings remain very much alive. The church was built in 1697, finishing the steeple in 1724. It is a baroque building divided into three naves and is also one of the few religious buildings in the world that are representations three archangels, St. Michael being the patron of Nerja. ... the Balcon de Europa
was is said that King Alfonso XII who gave him that name, Balcony of Europe, after visiting the Axarquia Malaga in 1885. Regardless of authorship, which combine insurance popular fiction and history, the balustrade could not be more aptly named. It is situated on the cliff that separates the beaches of Salón and Calahonda and is nestled on a former defensive strength gleaned from guns (of which still overlook both at sea) that was completely demolished under the 
fire from British ships during the War of Independence. A wide promenade lined with palm trees above him and behind him, the sea. The bright sun warm this winter winks on the water surface. The sea breeze, the intense aromas and former emanating from the Mediterranean to attack us. Peering at Balcony of Europe is lean to blue, great blue of the Phoenicians and Greeks and Romans and Carthaginians, Arabs and Ottomans, and they saw this via Mare Nostrum his natural expansion. Meets the balcony the literalness of his name, hangs its balustrade as a last bastion of Europe, looking face to face the mighty 
Africa, so close and so far away. Groups of tourists now invading balustrade. Photographed with mirroring the horizon behind. Some overlook, others turn away and smile, others sit and contemplate the sea, infinitely blue. A real Fgura egregious is watching us, IAEA beyond to the west, supporting the left elbow on the railing and lost his eye in the afterlife. Seems to smile, and we with it. Farewell The sea caresses your feet, the breeze our face. Beyond the sea cline outlines the shape of a fishing boat. On it a man is busy. Gray hair, beard. A group of children to celebrate and run around the snack bar wood. A woman runs a stand on a cliff, open a folding chair and began to paint, her hair tied in a ponytail. Verano Azul could be that, but today, now that the winter of 2011.
More information and links
Tourism: To organize a good visit to Nerja is essential to visit the municipal website ( http://www.nerja.es / ), prolific and useful information that will help us plan our trip through fares, schedules and phone numbers of monuments to visit and business tourist on the same appear. Worth it, likewise, visit the Tourist Office (952 52 15 31) which will guide them to make the visit to Nerja a more than satisfactory experience. Similarly there is a wide range of active tourism for those restless spirits who want more excitement.
Other places to visit: The different routes proposed to us from the tourist office can lead us to other places to visit like the various factories and sugar mills, industrial real historical heritage, various bridges over the ravines osta precede Nerja, the watchtowers of Nerja which has five in his term municipal cemeteries Maro and San Miguel, the different archaeological sites ... Endless possibilities ...
Hiking: From Nerja leave several hiking trails of various difficulty levels and will bring the tourist asset to some of the highest peaks surrounding the town and some of the most spectacular sites. One of the most attractive route is the one that runs along the river Chillar to the dam, walking through the deep gorges that form the basin in the section called The Cubs and that they tend to narrow as possible touch with both hands time. The length of this route is 8 miles, but for the course must used one day by the added difficulty of walking through water.
Fiestas: The celebration of the Virgen del Carmen, in Nerja Maro as take on a significant importance as both cores sailors. Every 25 July, the ships go to sea until late at night, processions of the Virgin and culminating with a spectacular fireworks display.
Links: We take as reference the website Tourist Board of the Costa del Sol , the municipal website Nerja and the web of Cueva de Nerja .
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