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Malaga is like a walk in the park: a list of the city’s green spaces

Málaga, a vibrant coastal city in Andalusia, is renowned for its stunning beaches, rich history, and lively culture. However, as the summer sun blazes down, the city’s parks become essential havens, offering residents and visitors alike a cool, shaded retreat. Here, we explore some of the best parks in Málaga, highlighting their unique features and […]

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Francisco Goya: The Glorified Spanish Artist and His Legacy in Andalusia

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) is regarded as the most important Spanish artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Goya’s work has left an indelible mark on Spanish culture, so much so that his name has been

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Organizing Expat- friendly bookquest in Malaga: A Bookstore Guide

Book- buying is a serious business “practised” by regular readers, experienced Book Collectors,  escapists who use the pages of a paperbag to transport themselves to different worlds and realities fromm the comfort of their own house…Are one of those extremely up-to-date bookworm that logs in and reviews a new book each week, on your goodreads

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The opera version of “The house of Bernarda Alba” in Malaga

“La Casa de Bernarda Alba”, the Opera, is a reimagined version of Miguel Ortega’s preoccupation with the act of constructing a musical embodiment of Federico Garcia Lorca’s pre-Civil War written play. He is rerunning his personal project, which premiered nearly two decades ago. Due to the conductor’s extreme fascination, from a very young age, with

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All about the religious parades in Malaga- The Processions of the Brotherhoods

Just a few days after the smoke from the bonfires lit on the 23rd of June has cleared, and after the sea has regained its calm from all the people who proceeded to dive in, using the water as a means of purification and good luck, I’ve noticed that there is one more tradition related

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One week of techno in Malaga: FLAMA festival June 28th- 29th

BIG NEWS The city of Malaga, as is made evident by the weekly versatile events that have been piling up in the “noteworthy section”, is about to add a highly anticipated event to the mix!  One month after Foolk, the first Sonovisual festival that returned in La Termica, Malaga, everything pointed in the direction that

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A guide to Malaga’s 7th Estival, the Contemporary Art Exhibition

The festival season is still underway, and the busiest city of Andalucia has yet another Art festival to offer to the art-thirsty locals and the curious tourists who will track down the street performances and could not resist joining in the fun! This “effervescent” version of Estival is all about the most positive, energetic, and

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Slam poetry “malaka” returns in Malaga

Today’s practices make it harder and harder to avoid being ethically jeopardized each day, with every lawful procedure being turned into a disgrace constantly. The new reality is for the “big names”, institutions, multinational companies, deciding to hold a “profile of neutrality”, which is marketed as just a refusal to take a stance, a statement

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