It can take a battering from some of the elite quarters, and it may not be to the taste for everybody who comes to the Costa del Sol, but the sun and the beach tourism is the motor that first drove the southern Spanish tourism industry on the tourism map, and this is still alive on the Costa del Sol.
The 165 kilometres of the Malaga province coast is mostly beach, and with more of the hotels in the province built very close to the beaches, most of the finest restaurants within a shouting distance of the beaches and with the best climate in Europe, no wonder that the beach means so much to local residents and tourists alike in Malaga.
And all these are excellent beaches, they are cleaned every day and with all the services that only a great Spanish beach can offer: one will find bars, restaurants, showers, beach umbrellas, beach beds, palm trees, there are special access for the disabled, lifeguard services, policing, water sports and much much more.
If you want none of this, but would like to lie on an empty beach with nobody around, or even with no clothes on, you can have that too, because there are also small coves and beaches set aside for naturists.
Newcomers must be warned though, that the coves around Maro in the Nerja, forms a part of a nature park and it do not have beach services of any kind. One the other hand, these are among the most beautiful beaches on the entire Costa del Sol.
