Temporary exhibition until January 6th, 2020 at Clinica Veterinaria in Avenida Mexico 21, Mijas. Titled “Pitcures for pets”, by a group of professional international artists, gathered in Andalucia.

Some rural towns have their own ways of celebrating New Year, and Coin is one of them. After the bells have rung in the new year, the streets fill with people in fancy dress, so the occassion seems more like a large carnival celebration. Join them in the Plaza Bermudez de la Rubia, and onwards to the Alameda this year.

We hope you have a Merry Christmas and a pleasant festive season. Best wishes from the whole PGI team.

San Pedro has a new Mercadona supermarket in a state-of-the-art, energy efficient, extensive unit of 1800 square metres. An additional 20 staff have joined the existing 95 San Pedro employees.

The council of Marbella has started cleaning work on giving the Piruli lighthouse tower a special chemical treatment. The tower, that was created in 1992, contains copper and marble that reuire regular maintenance. Some of the copper panels have been lifted by strong winds and will be replaced.

27 market stalls in the Muelle de Ribera of Puerto Banus, until 5th of January, 2020. Open from 10h – 20h, offering crafts, gifts, gastronomy, and children’s activities.

Hotels in Malaga city are almost at full capacity, as Christmas made reservations shoot up for the holiday season. Hotels in the rest of the Costa del Sol are 65% full on average, a notable improvement compared to previous years.

The municipality of Coin has installed a total of 128 solar panels, mainly for hot water, which brought savings of around 70%. The majority are used for the town’s indoor swimming pool, saving around 30,000 euros per year.

For the 41st year, the annual Benalmadena Living Bethlehem will be presented in Los Limones Park. It is a beautiful tradition of Benalmadena Pueblo, where more than 50 residents volunteer to perform musical pieces, dressed in attires of the times, and re-enacting Nativity.

The new bridge over the Guadalhorce river is arriving on site to be installed by the end of December 2019. It will be Europe’s longest structure of this type with 270 metres in length, 4.3 metres in width, distributed over 6 spans. It will sit 11 metres above the riverbed, completing another section of the Costa del Sol walkway project.