Backtracking, and after crossing Málaga city and the Guadalhorce, we enter
the coastal part of Málaga, which is more than sun and beach. It is a singular Málaga,
colourful, stretched between the sierra and the sea. Sunny with white towns leaning on the
sierra, balconies towards the Mediterranean in Benalmadena and Mijas, the valley of Ojén,
Istán and Benahavís. Busy and cosmopolitan world which, from Torremolinos to Sabinillas,
turns the N-340 road into the longest street in the world and in Marbella goes into the
foot of the sierra, in hillocks and riverbeds, between carpets of golf, houses and
gardens. The same world as usual in the vegetable gardens and fields in Estepona, Casares
and Manilva, and the small fishing ports which are left on the coast and which today seek
refuge in the oldest suburbs of the coastal towns. Suburbs which are often made into
Cinderellas in a festive Málaga, full of life. |