Weekend break: Malaga, Spain

Carolyn Moore says Malaga on Spain’s Costa del Sol has much more to offer than a gateway to its nearby resorts.

Local specialities at the Mercado Atarazanas food market.

GIVEN the number of Irish tourists who flock to the Costa del Sol every year, it’s a safe bet that many of you reading this will have been to Malaga at some point, if only to be bussed from the airport to a nearby resort, along with many of the 16 million passengers who used the city as a gateway to southern Spain in 2016.

With that volume of people passing through, it’s no wonder Malaga’s mayor, Francisco de la Torre, spotted an opportunity to draw some of them into the city.