Tag Archive for Andalusia

The Spanish region of Andalucia (Andalusia)

Faint Hope for Nerja Golf?

After the local business association and the Nerja Town Hall had called upon the Junta de Andalucía to change its stance on the golf-course project the Delegate for the Provincial Council, José Luis Ruiz Espejo, promised to take the affair to the Consejería de Medio Ambiente y de Ordenación del Territorio in Sevilla; or in other words, the Junta.

Maroween

The Nerja municipal dependency of Maro, has combined the tradition of eating roasted chestnuts and sweet potato on All Saints Day with the ever-more-popular Halloween and come up with Maroween.

Motril Borrows to Pay Salaries

The Town Hall staff in Motril received half of their outstanding salaries after the Mayor negotiated a bank loan for 700,000 euros. Salaries for Town Hall employees – around a thousand workers – had been outstanding since September. Staff have been staging daily protests since the beginning of this month

Leaving The Province

According to the national statistics agency (INE), 11,500 Granadinos went to others parts of Spain to look for work, whilst a further 2,000 left the country to do the same.