#Costa del sol series

Public works done on the MГЎlaga city port as well as those on the Antequera and Velez roadways provided the necessary infrastructure for distribution of the renowned MГЎlaga wines. Trade, dominated by foreign merchants, was the main source of wealth in MГЎlaga province of the 18th century, with wine and raisins as the principal commodity exports. In the 16th century, the area entered a period of slow decline, exacerbated by epidemics of disease, several successive poor food crops, floods, and earthquakes.

The siege of MДЃlaqa by the Catholic Monarchs in 1487 was one of the longest of the Reconquista. In 1026 it became the capital of the Taifa of MГЎlaga, an independent Muslim kingdom ruled by the Hammudid dynasty in the Caliphate of CГіrdoba, which was conquered by the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada. The southern Mediterranean coast was part of Visigothic Spain from the fifth century until the Muslim Arab conquest of Hispania (711вЂ“718) The city, then known as MДЃlaqa (Щ…Ш§Щ„Щ‚Ш©), was encircled by defensive walls. The decline of the Roman imperial power in the 5th century led to invasions of Hispania Baetica by Germanic peoples and by the Byzantine Empire. Under the rule of the Roman Republic, the Municipium Malacitanum became a transit point on the Via Herculea, which revitalised the city both economically and culturally by connecting it with other developed enclaves in the interior of Hispania and with other ports of the Mediterranean Sea. The Costa del Sol has spas in MГЎlaga, Tolox, Estepona, BenahavГs, BenalmГЎdena, Mijas, Torremolinos and Marbella, the largest concentration of golf courses on the European continent, fifteen marinas, nine theme parks (including amusement parks, aquariums and zoos), as well as an information and communication technology business park (PTA), a Google cybersecurity center and a Vodafone research and development center.ДЄ beach on the Costa del Sol, with the Sierra Blanca in the background The Costa del Sol has a population of 1,412,541 inhabitants. High-speed trains serve the coastal region and inland areas, the AVE service reaches the MГЎlaga-MarГa Zambrano railway station in 2 hours and 46 minutes from Madrid. The A-7 highway runs through the region, as does the old national highway generally known as N-340. MГЎlaga is home to the MГЎlaga-Costa del Sol Airport, which is the third busiest airport in mainland Spain, behind Barajas ( Madrid) and El Prat ( Barcelona). The most populated city on the Costa del Sol is the city of MГЎlaga, with a metropolitan population of close to one million. It became an international tourist destination in the 1950s and is today particularly popular among British, German, Scandinavian and French tourists. The tourist boom in the area began in the 1920s with the opening of the BaГ±os del Carmen in MГЎlaga and a golf course in Torremolinos. The region was a relatively prosperous commercial and industrial center for much of the 19th century. The Costa del Sol is one of the most important tourist areas in Spain around 35% of Andalusia's tourism is concentrated in the region in 2009 it had 17 million overnight stays. The name refers to the sunny climate, present in the region most days of the year. Until the late 1960s, it was used in reference to the entire Mediterranean coast of Eastern Andalusia. The term Costa del Sol was coined at the beginning of the 20th century by Rodolfo Lussnigg to promote the AlmerГa coastline. The region has no official limit, but it is generally accepted that the Costa del Sol stretches from the municipality of La LГnea de la ConcepciГіn in the west to Nerja in the east, spanning around 150 kilometers of coastline. The Costa del Sol is situated between two lesser known coastal regions, the Costa de la Luz and the Costa Tropical.

#Costa del sol series

Formerly made up only of a series of small fishing settlements, today the region is a world-renowned tourist destination. The Costa del Sol (literally 'Coast of the Sun' or 'Sun Coast') is a region in the south of Spain in the autonomous community of Andalusia, comprising the coastal towns and communities along the coastline of the Province of MГЎlaga and the eastern part of Campo de Gibraltar in CГЎdiz.