Nerja News

If all goes to plan and there are no more party political interruptions, the contract for the equipping of the Nerja History Museum should be finalised before the end of this month and work could begin in October. more »

Police and lifeguards had to rescue a young swimmer from the rocks off the Balcon de Europa after he ignored a red flag and went into the water anyway. more »

The Feria de las Maravillas takes place in Maro from September 7th to September 11th with a variety of activities taking place each day. more »

It is now exactly three years since the end of the deadline for objections (of which there were 260) to the so-called Plan of Management of Natural Resources (PORN) covering the heavily protected Maro-Cerro Gordo area, but no regional approval has yet been received. more »

The Balcon de Europa cooperative has been producing 100% organic food for the past sixteen years and now they have opened a sales point in Nerja which means you can now buy directly from the farmers, no middle-men. more »

The application period is now open for anyone wishing to hold exhibitions during 2011 in either the Sala Mercado in Plaza de la Ermita or in the Sala Municipal in calle Cristo. more »

The Council has finished the asphalting work on calle Puento Viejo, calles Rafael Alberti, Dámaso Alonso, Solana, Julio Romero, Antonio Jímenez and the access road to the Sierra Almijara school. The works cost €46,000.

A woman from Madrid on a walk along the Rio Chillar had to be rescued after she damaged her ankle and was unable to continue. more »

The Nerja Green Party organised a trip to clean up some of the graffiti along the Rio Chillar as an experiment and have reported that the exercise was a great success and more such events are being planned. Here, with photos, is what they had to say. more »

Several years after the completion of Plaza de España, formerly Paseo Nuevo, the first business is operating in the square. It is the new two star Hotel Mena Plaza. The square is, of course, the site of the Nerja History Museum, or will be when the political wranglings cease and it is eventually completed.

From now until September 5th, the Plaza de España is the site of a crafts market with the opportunity to see the handmade objects being produced. There are twenty stalls and the market is open daily in the mornings and evenings.

The singer Pasión Vega will be named as Tourist of Honour 2010 during the Day of the Tourist festivities on September 3rd. more »

The bogus gas inspectors are once again making their rounds in Nerja, eager to take advantage of the unwary visitor and the elderly. See Gas Installations and remember the cardinal rule, DO NOT LET THEM INTO YOUR HOUSE.

Nerja should have an employment workshop next year which will be located at the Nerja Caves and will be jointly administered by the Council and the Nerja Caves Foundation. more »

The Council has unanimously approved a proposal to amend parts of the PGOU to faciltate the construction of the proposed new Health Centre. more »

The Trafico section of the Local Police has taken delivery of four new motorcycles, adding to the eight they already have. The new machines are 650 cc Kawasaki’s and cost a total of €24,527.04. The Councillor for Public Safety, Jonathan Méndez, also announced that the Local Police would be getting two more cars in an effort to improve the material resources of the police.

The Council should be able to slay several feathered creatures with one mineral object next week as construction is due to start on the much needed Football-7 pitch in parque Verano Azul. more »