Salobreña recently achieved the status of Municipio Turistico, which will mean that it is eligible to receive extra fundings, which will come in handy!

Take, for instance, the second phase of restoration work on the castle where the Town Hall has to find 700,000 euros to get it started whilst they’re waiting for a 1.2m state grant.

Then there’s the project to generate a beach down by La Caleta – there used to be one there decades ago which went out further than the present-day Plaza del Lavadero and extended along the seafront of the sugar factory. There used to be a breakwater, which was dismantled to build a seawall for the factory, resulting in the beach waving goodbye. This project (Playa de la Caleta) is pending being put out to tender.

What else? There are the mini-marina project and a cable car or elevator to reach the old town… but it’s probably not a good idea to hold your breath for those two to materialise.

More likely is the coastal pathway that towns along the coast are working on, which will join Salobreña to its two neighbours, with a little bit of help from the Mancomunidad, Diputación, la Junta and Costas.

Anybody with two eyes in their head, or even Cyclops for that matter, can see that the TH1 is dead in the water, thanks both to the economic crisis of 2008, lasting a decade and the following pandemic. As for the negative effects caused by the war in Ukraine, it is as we used to say on British bases in West Germany in the 70s, “visit Russia before Russia visits you.”

Then there’s a hotel project  that is not on the TH1, but on the hillside below the N-340 somewhere between Urb. Alminares and Pargo SA, which a group of investors from Mallorca are behind with a budget of 12m euros. It will have 62 rooms and will be ‘integrated into the hillside.’

So, those are the Magnificent Six… actually, it should have been the Magnificent Seven, as the riverside walk and tree-planting project hasn’t been mentioned above.

(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)