Vélez-Málaga Council will be introducing signs in braille at several beaches in the municipality for the benefit of the visually impaired.
Interior Minister visits Chiclana de la Frontera
The Interior Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, has been visiting Chiclana de la Frontera, one of the areas most devastated by the recent storms in Cádiz province, and has reiterated the Government’s intention to do everything ‘humanly possible’ to get the beaches back in good order for Easter.
Vélez-Málaga beaches open again
The Local Police in Vélez-Málaga have removed the signs and tape discouraging people from walking along the beach or swimming after the detection of a number of dangerous jellyfish on Tuesday.
Clean-up begining
Today sees the start of clean-up and repair operations for thirty-seven beaches in Andalucia as part of the Emergency Plan agreed between the Central Government and the Junta de Andalucia.
Nerja ranked highly for beaches
Nerja and its beaches are among the top three destinations in Spain and Europe according to hotel price comparison research conducted by Trivago.
Oil spill reaches the beaches in Algeciras
An oil slick 1.5 kilometres long and 4 metres wide has reached the beaches of Algeciras following the accident on Wednesday involving a Liberian registered container ship.
Two arrested after series of thefts from beaches
Two people have been arrested following a spate of robberies on various beaches in Nerja during the past few weeks.
A total of 15 people needed rescuing during the summer season
The beach season is officially over, having been extended by 15 days to September 30th, and, as usual, the statisticians have been busy.
Praise for Nerja beaches
The president of the Environmental and Consumer Education Association, José Sánchez Moro, who, along with the European Foundation for Environmental Education, award the ‘blue flags’ to beaches, has written to the mayor of Nerja to congratulate the municipality on the state of its beaches.
Make or break?…
August, the make or break month for the tourist industry on the Costa del Sol (and elsewhere, for that matter), has arrived and, although there are a fair number of people around, nothing like the hordes of yesteryear. Not unexpected. It may turn out to be that those (lesser numbers) actually making the journey to the coast are those with …