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Youth Centre for Village

Another new addition to the village has been the Oficina Joven in the Centro Cívico. The facility, which is open from 17.00h to 20.00h from Monday to Friday, has eighteen computers, all connected to Internet (ADSL), which should please the kids,

Rehearsing Tragedy

Towards the end of last month, drivers found that the entrance to the A-7 was blocked by the Guardia Civil – the same was the case at the Taramay end.

Herradura Romeria 2011

In over thirty years on this part of the coast, I have never seen so many people turn out for a La Herradura Romeria, which this year was held in the grounds of the restored castle (tower). The village was alive with colour, horses, gypsy dresses and humming with the ‘alegria’ that has been missing…

Landslide Blocks Tunnel

A landslide near the mouth of the Punta de la Mona tunnel, on the La Herradura side, caused the main road to be closed to traffic whilst it was cleared. It’s not the first time that there has been a rock-fall there; in fact, retention netting etc has only recently been erected at this entrance.

Macro Neighbourhood Committee

There are over twenty community associations for urbanisaciones in Almunecar (Almuñécar) and La Herradura, but now twelve of them have joined forces to form a single federation of ‘comunidades’ known as the Federación de Presidentes de Urbanizaciones del Poniente [western] de Almuñécar.

On The Move

Returning to the subject of land movement, we come to the Marina del Este… Rains at the end of last year and the beginning of this one have had a negative effect on the stability of the terrain – which is hardly surprising, is it?

Market Repainted

You will have noticed that they are busy painting the municipal market exactly the same colour that they recently painted the Almuñécar municipal market; i.e., Marrakech red.

Castle Sidelined

The project to turn the castle – formerly the old Guardia Civil post – into a Centro de Interpretación (museum) appears to have bitten the dust, thanks to the opposition of the provincial Tourist Board of the Junta de Andalucía…