Welcome To Benalmadena, Spain

Benalmadena is made up of three different villages - in the hills is Benalmadena Pueblo,a beautiful Andalucian village of whitewashed houses and flowers covering the balconies in the narrow streets; closer to the coast is Arroyo de la Miel (stream of honey in English) a small but modern and fashionable town of shops and businesses, popular with tourists and along the coast Benalmadena Costa with a 9km long beach and a 2km long promenade. One of the highlights of Benalmadena Costa is the beautiful marina (puerto) with 1000 moorings and what many authorities have claimed to be the best marina in the world. It has a new shopping centre plus 200 shops, bars and restaurants and also a shipyard, sailing school, diving school, nautical school and a Sea Life Centre aquarium. There is something for everyone at Benalmadena Costa; the Paloma park being only part of the ambience of the town. This was created quite recently and features a large lake with a fountain and ducks, swans and pelicans and landscaped gardens with enclosures for a variety of animals and birds.

The main road through the town is the CN340 once notorious as Spains most dangerous road but which is now a little quieter with the heavy traffic using the motorway at the back of the town. The road runs parallel to the coast and the Paseo Maritimo (promenade) which features shops, bars and restaurants. To the western end of the resort is the 5* Torrequebrada Hotel which houses the resorts only casino and a spectacular cabaret show. If its culture you are after the Castle Bil Bil is an Arabic building which houses exhibitions and concerts hosted by the Town Hall. The Municipal Precolumbian Museum was created in 1970 and is the only one like it in Spain. It houses archeological remains from the area and also from Mexico and central America. The grounds are covered with marble tiles which come from a ship sunk in the 18th century. In this coastal resort are many modern hotels and self-catering appartment complexes and in the back streets north of the main road many small bars, shops and restaurants. There is truly something for everyone in Benalmadena Costa. This is most certainly a family resort. 

About 1km inland is Arroyo de la Miel which has a railway station linking to the rest of the costa including Malaga and also the Tivoli World amusement park (open only at weekends in the winter) which hosts a small but interesting table top market on Sunday mornings where British ex-pats run many of the stalls. On Fridays there is a huge open market in the Tivoli
car park. Adjacent is the new Telecabina (cable car) which takes passengers 750m above sea level to Monte Calamorro where, on a clear day, you can see the Atlas mountains in north Africa. Also in Arroyo many interesting shops,bars and cafes and some first-class supermarkets.
In Benalmadena Pueblo is a lovely square where you can sit under orange
trees and have a meal, a snack or a drink at one of three cafes

Malaga Airport is currently the fourth busiest Airport in Spain and in 2004 it handled over 12 million passengers. This summer, 2005, Malaga Airport  has already seen the highest application for flight slots ever and it is predicted that the passenger numbers are set to break records again this year. Visit the website

Air 2000 (DP) (+34) 952 048 333	Air Europa (AEA) (+34) 952 048 249
Air Nostrum (YW) (+34) 902 400 500	Britannia (BY) (Thomson) (+34) 952 048 353
British Airways (+34) 952 048 353	EasyJet (EZY) (+34) 952 048 284 / 902 299 992
Futura (FUA) (+34) 952 048 433	Iberia (IB) (+34) 902 400 500 or 952 136 293 / 4
Lufthansa (LH) (+34) 952 048 204 / 16 17	SAS (SK) (+34) 048 571/ 173
Swiss International (SR) (+34) 952 048 180	Transavia (HV) (+34) 952 105 571