Costa Del Sol Information

The Costa del Sol ( Sun Coast ), on the Mediterranean in the southern part of Spain, in the Andalusia region, is a popular tourist destination.

It includes the city of Malaga,and the towns of Torremolinos, Benalmadena, Fuengirola, Mijas, Marbella, Puerto Banus, San Pedro de Alcantara, Velez-Malaga, Nerja, Torrox, Estepona, San Luis de Sabinillas, the community of Sotogrande, San Roque and La Linea de la Concepcion.

It has been colonised and ruled by many cultures such as the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Visigoths and Moors, before the Reconquista.

In recent years the Costa Del Sol has become known to golf enthusiasts as the 'Costa Del Golf' due to the number of high quality golf courses, more than fifty, of which many are centred around Marbella. Attracting golfers from all over Europe and the rest of the world, the Costa del Sol has benefitted from the stimulation provided by this sport to growth in touism and to the resulting increase in development of new complexes to house the number of golfers visiting the area.

With the Costa del Sol weather giving average annual temperatures of 18ºC and over 300 days of sunshine per year it isn't difficult to understand why it is one of Europe's top holiday destinations.

Away from the coast there are numerous excursions into the real Spain with the cities of Ronda, Seville, Cordoba and Granada all accessible for day tours. For the more adventurous you can also take a 15 km trip across the Straits of Gibraltar to visit Tangier in Morocco.