Malaga (Spain): The city of Picasso

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Malaga is not only the city where Picasso was born or a turistic city, Málaga is the light and colour of Picasso. Just because is located
in a harbour in the Mediterranean sea and surround by mountains that avoid the north winds, Málaga (the Costa del Sol area) has the best weather in Europe continent.

In 1998, Malaga was awarded by United Nations (Habitat II program) "Best Practices in Improving the Living Environment" because
programmes for improving the urban environment and the quality of life.

Malaga city: 555.000
Malaga metro area: 1.100.000
Malaga province: 1.500.000



De la Merced square, where Picasso was born in 1881




Malaga Picasso Museum



Larios street



San Agustín street (close to Málaga Picasso Museum) with the cathedral



Town Hall



Chinitas's Restaurant





Some buildings from XVIII and XIX centuries





Some streets and squares












Views from Gibralfaro Castle






The Plaza de Toros of Malaga "La Malagueta"



Malaga Port





And, the last one:

[MaTech]

...and two webcams




Malaga is in the middle of the Costa del Sol, the area that has the more important economic development in Spain for the lastest ten years.

A good site to live and to work, with high quality of live and good comunications with Europe by the Malaga international airport. In the latest years many people of Europe goes to Malaga not only to holidays but to work and to business. With an important Technologic Park that is IASP World Headquarters ( International Association of Science Parks )

The city has a young and dynamic university with over 45,000 students, 20 faculties and centres of higher learning, of which those devoted to information and production technologies are particularly noteworthy, thus ensuring the availability of highly specialised labour.

The Malaga airport offers direct connections to all of Europe, and some cities of other continents (12 million passengers in 2004).

The container port of Algeciras, the biggest of Spain and one of the most important on Mediterranean sea area, is only an hour away.

Malaga and its surroundings offer excellent living conditions, including the beaches of the Costa del Sol, near the nature preserves of the Serranía de Ronda, excellent hotel, sport and leisure infrastructures (60 golf courses and 10 pleasure ports), the ski resort of Sierra Nevada (just 90 minutes away by car) and a large selection of quality real estate for sale or rent.

The quality of life and economic development of the area make it an ideal place for setting up research and development centres and high tech industries.

The network of highways, the twelve International Schools in the area, offering instruction in six different languages, and the city's dynamic university, the construction of the subway (in service in feb-2009) and the spanish high velocity train -AVE- (2007) are another reasons to say that, Malaga is probably the City with most potential in Spain actually.

The new Malaga Congress Centre :






... and a few years ago, under construction

[LuckyLuke]

Wonderful city! Thanks for the pics

[stefansk]

gorgeous - I was there a year or two ago, i didnt realize it was the big (I blame the tour operator, who only showed us the museum )....

[De Snor]

Defenatly worth a visit