Andalucía, Spain
Costa del Sol
Marinas and mountains within an hour of each other — Andalucía at its most effortlessly glamorous.
From the yacht-lined quays of Puerto Banús to the snowfields of the Sierra Nevada and the wind-swept sands of Tarifa, the Costa del Sol offers more range than any other stretch of Mediterranean coastline.
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Heritage
A little history.
Andalucía's southern coast has been a crossroads for three thousand years. Phoenicians founded Málaga around 770 BC, Rome built garum factories along the shore, and from 711 the Moors made this the western edge of Al-Andalus — leaving the alcazabas, irrigation channels and whitewashed hill villages that still define the landscape.
After 1492 the coast became a line of watchtowers guarding against Barbary corsairs; you can still see them standing every few kilometres between Málaga and Estepona. Marbella remained a quiet fishing and iron-ore town until the 1950s, when Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe opened the Marbella Club and brought European aristocracy with him.
Puerto Banús followed in 1970, opened by José Banús with Prince Rainier, Grace Kelly and Aga Khan on the quay. Inland, the Sierra Nevada — Europe's most southerly ski resort — hosted the 1996 World Championships, and Tarifa, the southernmost point of continental Europe, guards the strait Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed to begin the Moorish conquest.
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