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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