The Costa Del Sol
The Costa Del Sol (meaning “Sunshine Coast” in English) welcomes more than two million people to its shores a year. Arriving at Malaga international airport tourists head to one of the many resorts located along the stretch of coastline from Gibraltar in the west to Nerja in the east.
Formerly made up only of a series of small, quiet fishing settlements, the region has been completely transformed during the latter part of the 20th century into a tourist destination of world renown, with a near-continuous urban agglomeration of high-rise settlements and resorts running along the length of the coastline. The most well known resorts lie west of Malaga beginning with Torremolinos, Benalmadena, Fuengirola and Mijas Costa. Further along the coast lies Marbella with its famous marina at Puerto Banus, Estepona, Sotogrande and finally Gibraltar.