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by Naomi Diestro

Frigiliana

If you’re looking to settle in an exceptionally pretty quarter, and it’s rumoured that if you don’t keep
and charming mountain village that’s won awards your house looking spick and span, the town hall
for its complete gorgeousness, then Frigiliana’s will paint it for you and send you the bill!
the place for you! Two-bed apartments currently go for between
It has more than 40 great bars and restaurants, 130,000€ and 220,000€, and a three-bed villa in
and there’s always some fun event being the surrounding countryside (many of which have
planned by the ‘ayuntamiento’ to help bring the have magical views to the Nerja-Torrox coastline)
3,000-odd villagers together, a third of which are range from 285,000€ and 1,200,000€.
foreigners from 20 different countries. Don’t miss: The exciting Three Cultures Festival
Virtudes restaurant (where customers sit outside from 22nd-25th August, a lively and vibrant
to admire the view) is where the old, historical cultural and gastronomic celebration of legacies
part of Frigiliana ends and the much newer part left by the Christians, Jews and Moors, all of
begins. It’s about 30 minutes on foot from one whom played a part in the history of Andalusia.
end of the village to the other, and an hour’s walk Today’s ‘extranjeros’ of Frigiliana live in harmony
down to Nerja. with their Spanish neighbours, just as these three
Mules are still being used to transport loads cultures did, centuries ago.
to the highest parts of the old, cobblestoned

Average annual temperature: 18º
Covers: 41 m2
Height above sea level: 320 m
Distance to Málaga city: 58 km (45 minutes’ drive)
Distance from coast: 6 km
Market day: Thursdays at Plaza de Las Tres Culturas
Nearest mountain ranges: Tejeda, Almijara + Alhama

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