Category: News

  • Caminito del rey

    Caminito del Rey daredevil walkway reopens and tickets are back on sale

    The natural attraction will be opening on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 12 March, except for Easter, when the spectacular pathway will remain open every day. The spectacular Caminito del Rey walkway, suspended precariously 100 metres above a gorge, will reopen next Friday, 12 March, after several weeks of closure due to the restrictions imposed

  • Junta approves plan to administer half a million coronavirus vaccines per week

    Andalucía’s regional government however has stressed that it needs the supplies from central government to achieve its target to have 70 per cent of the population inoculated with both doses by summer. The Junta de Andalucía has revealed details of its ambitious plan to inject 500,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine every week to achieve

  • Google puts Malaga on the map with plans for a cybersecurity centre of excellence

    The technology giant has also announced the first private underwater cable to connect Spain with the United States and the United Kingdom. Google has chosen Malaga as the headquarters of a cybersecurity centre of excellence that will have an international reach. It will be located in the old military government building on Paseo de la

  • Plans progress to convert Malaga’s old Correos building into an ‘iconic and remarkable’ hotel

    The owner’s lawyers have been searching for land to give the council as compensation for changing the building’s designated use in the Urban Plan. The new owner of the Correos building in Malaga city, Israeli oil magnate Haim Tsuff, thinks he may have found a solution to the problem which has delayed the conversion of

  • Major airlines to launch a digital Covid ‘health passport’ in March

    The IATA Travel Pass mobile application is being presented as a solution to help get the aviation sector moving again. Some of the world’s largest airlines intend to implement a ‘health passport’ next month in an effort to revive the aviation sector and get passengers travelling again – and to do so safely. The Travel

  • Sierra Nevada Mas property

    Credited skiers will be allowed to travel between provinces

    Despite current restrictions, Andalucia will allow skiers to travel between provinces. In order to stop the advance of the third wave of Covid-19, Andalucia has approved a new decree by which it restricts the entry and exit to and from towns which exceed 500 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the past 14 days and

  • Fuengirola

    Fuengirola now has the fourth largest population in the province of Malaga

    The number of residents registered in the Costa del Sol town has now passed 80,000 for the first time. Despite a lack of space remaining for development, Fuengirola has seen its population grow again this year. Passing the 80,000 mark for the first time, (with 82,000 people on the population census), Fuengirola is now the

  • Second dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine rolled out to care homes and public hospitals

    Additionally 1,000 professionals from Malaga’s private health system have also received their first jabs The coronavirus vaccination campaign in Andalucía has entered the phase of injecting the second dose in care homes and to public health professionals who fight the pandemic on the front line. Twenty-one days after the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine

  • Lineup continues to grow for this summer’s Starlite Festival in Marbella

    International stars who had to cancel last year, such as Tom Jones and Lionel Richie, hope to make it to the Nagüeles stage in 2021. After paving the way for a new era of ‘Covid-free’ concerts in the summer of last year, the Starlite Catalana Occidente festival is set to return this summer to celebrate

  • Sierra Nevada ski resort to open on 18th December

    The recent heavy snowfalls in the mountains of Sierra Nevada, just south of the city of Granada, have led to increasing speculation that the southernmost ski resort in Europe could be allowed to open despite the on-going restrictions on activities and movement during the coronavirus pandemic, and on Thursday the regional government of Andaluca authorized