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Selwo Adventure and Selwo Marina Dolphinarium start their new season this Friday

By: Malaga.us

Selwo EsteponaThe park in Estepona has incorporated new species, amongst them are hippos and hyenas

This Friday the 24th of February is the start of the new 2012 season in Selwo Adventure, in Estepona, and Selwo Marina Dolphinarium, in Benalmadena, the leisure centre parks on the Costa del Sol. This year is very special for the Selwo Marina Dolphinarium as it celebrates its tenth anniversary and due to this, it’s preparing several proposals to celebrate such a special birthday during the the whole season. On the hand, Selwo Adventure will also be offering a few outstanding innovations that will bring the visitor closer to real African territories.

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Malaga, Seville and Granada take up 62% of the trips to Andalusia

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Granada and Cadiz are the cities that have increased the most in travellers in comparison with the last few years

Malaga, Seville and Granada are, in this order, the Andalusian provinces that most interest awake amongst the travellers for their holidays, including in Malaga some of the most popular destinations like Marbella or Nerja. Between the three of them, they add up a total of 62% of the trips to Andalusia this season.

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Tour operators of the cruising tourism visit Nerja

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A group of tour-operators, related to the sector of cruises, visited the municipality last weekend with the aim to discover the municipality and its attractions as a tourist destination of the ships that dock at Malaga port, according to the councillor of Tourism in Nerja town hall, Bernardo Pozuelo, who received these professionals of the tourist sector.

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Malaga receives almost 8.000 cruisers, the first avalanche after the shipwreck of the ‘Costa Concordia’

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Two cruise ships will dock at the port, one of them, the ‘Costa Serena’, is identical to the one that shipwrecked in Italy

Malaga will be receiving almost 8.000 cruisers today. It’s the first avalanche of high sea tourists since the accident of the ‘Costa Concordia’. Two ships will dock in the Malaga port between seven and eight o’clock in the morning. Coincidentally, one of the them, the ‘Costa Serena’ that belongs to the company Costa Cruceros, is identical to the ship that wrecked in italy.

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The Alcazaba is Malaga’s most valued monument, according to a survey

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The Alcazaba is Malaga’s most valued monument, together with the Gibralfaro Castle and the Malagueta Bullring, according to a survey made by Qype, community of online reviews in Europe, that reflects that these sites are the favourites of both the citizens and the visitors.

Alcazaba

The opinions of both, tourists and citizens, have considered the Alcazaba one of the “must see” monuments, due to its cultural and archaeological interest, and award it with the highest marks.

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Malaga presents new signposting that gather all the city’s museums

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Museo Picasso malagaMalaga presents a new network of directional signs that gather all the city’s museums. The councillor of Economy and Tourism, Carolina España, introduced this cultural project of specific signposting this morning, christened as ‘Malaga, City of Museums’. “The aim of this new system is to reinforce a global and more homogeneous idea of this important tourist offer”, she added during the presentation, which took place in the museum Carmen Thyssen. This initiative is added to the pedestrian signposting network that already currently exists in Malaga city, and that will soon be improved once the contest for the renewal of hotel signs has been resolved. Both projects add up a total investment of almost 90.000 euros.

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The Museum of History in Nerja, a new attraction

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As from the past 6th of December, on the National Constitution Day, Nerja hosts a new touristic and cultural attraction, its first Museum of History, a facility in which the Nerja Cave Foundation has invested over five million euros since the project began in 2006. The premises offers the visitors a very visual and audible […]

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Malaga will renew the agreement with Halcon Viajes and will seal an alliance with Turkish Airlines in Fitur

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fitur 2012New touristic products and more alliances with operators to consolidate and reach new markets. These are the axles on which the promotional display, that the town hall of Malaga has launched, will go around due to the upcoming International Tourism Fair of Madrid (Fitur), which will begin next Wednesday the 18th. Malaga’s Councillor of Economy and Tourism, Carolina España, announced yesterday that in this event, they will be renewing the agreement with Halcon Viajes to promote tourist packages of Semana Santa (Spain’s Holy Week), an offer that was launched successfully last year. She also highlighted that in this occasion this operator will also be adding specific products to advertise the carnival.

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The museum that relates the history of Nerja since the Palaeolithic Era opens its doors

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Nerja’s history museum, an area that will allow locals and tourists to take a tour through the history of this town in the province of Malaga, from the Palaeolithic Era to the tourist boom in the 1960’s, will open its doors to the public this Tuesday, coinciding with the celebration of the Constitution Day.

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A total of 5.500 skiers enjoyed their first weekend of the season in Sierra Nevada

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A total of 5.500 skiers enjoyed their first weekend of the season in Granada’s Ski and Mountain resort, Sierra Nevada, of which its winter season 2011-2012 began this past Saturday with up to 40 kms of snow to ski on. Sources of Cetursa have informed Europa Press that this Sunday “another slope has been added”, so there was really 41 kms of snow, “in other words, an area four times larger than the usual opening average, which is 10.2 kms”.

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