Award for Tourism Studies Costa del Sol 1.988
Award for Tourism Studies Costa del Sol 1.989
Member of Málaga Convention Bureau
Member of Lions Club Mijas
Mijas
We start our visit in the Sanctuary of the Lady of the Rock(Santuario de la Virgen de la Peña), protectress Lady of Mijas, with a Church excavated in the rock.Then we continue our visit among the typical narrow and white streets of the village towards the City_Hall Museum ,where we will be able to see typical things of the town like Oil- mills,wine-cellars, esparto, marble, honey…
From the Museum, we are going to the San Sebastian Street, the most known in picture and TV-reports as a typical narrow and white street with grates and flowerpots on the windows, with a colourfull image.From this street we walk to the town center, to the Constitution Square , surrounded by shops and restaurants , and to the Plaza de Toros (Bullfightring),built in 1.900 with a capacity of 1.000 persons and with a rectangular surface from outside.
From the Plaza de Toros we go to the Church of the Lady of Inmaculada Concepción ( Immaculate Conception ) and we visit it , built in 1.510 ,and from there to the Mirador , a terrace with a magnificent view over Fuengirola, and on clair days over Gibraltar and Morocco.
The visit of Mijas can take approx.1 hour . The only Entrance-fee to pay is the one concerning the visit of the Bullfightsring from outside.
