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Malaga´s Botanical Gardens - La Concepción

Málaga´s Botanical Gardens in La Concepción are located 8km north of Málaga city. As you start climbing away from the coast heading towards Córdoba/Granada it´s possible to see a green and white-tiled dome roof of La Concepcion´s famous mirador glinting under the Mediterranean sunshine. Pond in Malaga´s Botanical Gardens The gardens and house were built in 1855 when two wealthy, local families united through the marriage of Amalia de Heredia Livermore and Jorge Enrique Loring Oyarzabal which meant the joining of several small estates into one larger estate. They created wonderful gardens around their house, buying and ordering plants and trees from around the world. Their love of plants was, unbeknownst to them, the beginning of Malaga´s Botanical Gardens as we know it today, It has become a gorgeous oasis of nature over the 23hectares that is now the visitable Botanical Gardens site. House in Malaga´s Botanical Gardens   Another wealthy family took over the gardens in 1911 and enl...
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Spanish Coasts - Which Costa is Where in Spain? Map of Spain´s Costas

Which costa is where in Spain? Have you ever wondered about the names of the different parts of the Spanish coast? Which Costa is where? Costa this and costa that? But what part of Spain is it on, the north, the Med coast, the Atlantic coast. 


The Spanish Coasts - Costas in Spain


While I knew my costas in Andalucia, that knowledge was a bit hazy once rounding the Andalucian coast into Murchia and up along the Mediterranean coast of Valencia and even worse up in the north so I raked out one of the maps from my kids school books and learnt my coasts. Now I have popped them on Spanish Coasts or Costas de España map for you. 


Map of Spain´s Coasts, Costas
Map of Spain´s Costas


So, now you know which costa is where in Spain.


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