Feria de Malaga (The Malaga Fair) 2010 will be opened on the  La Malagueta beach of on Friday August 13 at 23:50, by singer Javier Ojeda.  Everyone will gather at the beaches to hear the Pregón de la Feria, the official speech that starts the festivities. The opening ceremony will be followed by  a fireworks display, the lighting of the Paseo del Parque and the beach concert of Miguel Boséof  at 24:00. For nine days the city of Málaga will be dedicated to the Feria de Málaga. Basically it is all about music and dance.

Throughout the duration of the fair there will be tons to do ALL day. No matter how old you are or what music you are interested in, there is something for everybody and there you won’t be getting much sleep. Everything starts at 9 every day and as one of the golden rules of the feria there is no time to end the party at night.

On the second day of the fair the city center is transformed with horses carrying people dressed in typical Andalucian costumes. The horses and horse-drawn carriages take Malagenians to the church (Santuario de Ntra. Sra. De La Victoria), where they attend a service and offer flowers to the patron saint of Málaga, the Virgen de la Victoria. This is a chance to see a beautiful display of horse-riding clothes and outfits, horse harnessing and the special andalusian costumes and dresses.

For more details, vide and photographs see TVSpain - FERIA DE MALAGA, Horses.

During the day the fair takes place in the Malaga’s Old Town “Feria de Día” and in the evening in the outskirts at The Palacia de Feria located south-west of the center “Real De La Feria” (the feria proper). Feria Real is a rather commercial theme park and mass entertainment. In contrast the fair in the city center is a wonderful an spontaneous gathering of thousands of people joining together to have fun.

For more details, video and photographs see TVSpain - FERIA DE MALAGA, Madness.

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This year the Malaga Spanish Film Festival  takes place between 17 and 25 April. Malaga born actor and director Antonio Banderas is to be the star of the opening night on April 17th. The Festival is an annual national showcase for features films, documentaries, shorts and videos. They are divided into sections: the Official Feature Films , Zonazine, Short Films, Latin American Territory and Documentaries and  compete for awards including, the Malaga Prize, Retrospective, Ricardo Franco Prize, The Gold Film and Eloy Church Prize.

14 feature films will compete this year, and six films will get their world premiere.  Festival de Malaga TV , the Internet Channel on TVSpain is featuring all movies with trailers, photographs, synopsis and technical data - see www.FestivalDeMalaga.tv or click on the images (thumbnails) bellow.

THE SHAME / La Vergüenza, Festival de Malaga 2009 BRAIN DRAIN / Fuga de Cerebros, Festival de Malaga 2009 BULLYING, Festival de Malaga 2009 GUTS / Agallas, Festival de Malaga 2009 A GOOD MAN / Un Buen Hombre, Festival de Malaga 2009 THE FROST, La Escarcha, Festival de Malaga 2009 MAD LOVE / Amores Locos, Festival de Malaga 2009 7 MINUTES / 7 Minutos, Festival de Malaga 2009 TRASH, Festival de Malaga 09 THE FISH CHILD / El Niño Pez, Festival de Malaga 2009 THREE DAYS WITH THE FAMILY / Tres días con la familia, Festival de Malaga 2009 7′5 STEPS / 7 Pasos y Medio, Festival de Malaga 2009 THE FRIEND ZONE / Pagafantas, Festival de Malaga 2009 BLACK FLOWERS / Flores Negrass, Festival de Malaga 2009

You can also sethe e last year films at the Festival De Malaga TV 2008:

JAVIER GUTIERREZ INTERVIEW, 3 Dias winner Festival De Malaga 2008 NOCHES DE CINE - cinema on beach, Malaga NARANJO EN FLOR / Flower of Seduction, Festival de Malaga 2008 RAFAEL, Festival de Malaga 2008 PRETEXTOS / Pretexts, Festival de Málaga 2008 14 Fabian Road, Festival de Málaga 2008 PROYECTO DOS / Project Two, Festival De Málaga 2008 BIENVENIDO A FAREWELL-GUTMAN / Welcome to Farewell-Gutmann, Festival De Málaga 2008 8 CITAS / 8 Dates, Festival De Málaga 2008 UNPOCO DE CHOCOLATE (CLAUSURA) - Festival de Málaga 2008 FUERA DE CARTA / Chef´s Special, Festival de Málaga 2008 3 DIAS / Before The Fall, Festival De Málaga 2008 COBARDES, Festival De Málaga 2008 TODOS ESTAMOS INVITADOS, Festival De Màlaga 2008 MALAGA FILM FESTIVAL - Festival de Cine Español de Malaga

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This year Easter Celebrations in Malaga takes place between Palm Sunday - 5th April and Easter Sunday - 12th April. The streets of Malaga will be filled with up to 7 processions a day. One of the most spectacular features of the Holy Week in Malaga is that the floats are simply monumental and can weigh up to six tons and carried by over 200 people. The Holy Week it is full of happiness, noise, cheer and applause as the images pass by. You can spot famous visitors: last year Antonio Banderas returned again to Malaga - the city where he was born - to participate in the celebrations of Semana Santa with his wife Melanie Griffith and the childeren Alexander and Dakota.

You can get full information and watch videos on very comprehensive coverage of the Malaga celebration made by TVSpain - just click the images bellow:

INFORMATION AND VIDEOS

PASIÒN (passion) - - SALIDAS (departures) - - TRONOS (floats)

MÙSICA (music) - - PÙBLICO (spectators) - - HOLY WEEK  Malaga

ROUTES

The itineraries or routes and time schedules of the processions of Malaga in paper are easy to find in many establishments and in the offices and kiosks of tourist information of Malaga. The below schedules of the last year (2008) might change this year. When the  official route and time schedule guide of the 2009 are published we will update them on this page. Click the images to open.

The 17 sculptures by Manolo Valdes, Spanish painter and sculptor are exhibited on the Calle Larios in Malaga until 29th March, as a part of the program Art in the Street. Manolo Valdes, born 1942, is a Spanish artist residing in New York, working in paint, sculpture, and mixed media. He introduced to Spain a form of expression that combined political and social obligations with humor and irony. See TVSpain video: Manolo Valdes  sculptures in Malaga, photographs and more information about the exhibition.

The show starts off with ‘Lilie’, a large head of a woman. ‘Irene I’, ‘Irene II’ and ‘Odalisca’ are the other sculptures created specially for the same exhibition in Barcelona last year. The theme is repeated: a woman’s oval face is the protagonist. The improvised gallery goes up, It passes women with hairdos, the enormous, “Lady of Elche” with oval eyes, gigantic hands and a metallic curved hairdo. The sculptures show the voluptuousness of the maids of honor to the enormous heads without faces formed by rotund square blocks, from metallic black to oxide. The same street that one year ago welcomed the sculptures of Rodin, now, shows the works of art made by Valdes that is the aim of the tourist’s cameras and the surprise of pedestrians.

Valdés is a reputable Spanish artist who received various awards, including the Lissone and Biella in Milan in 1965; the silver medal in the second International Prints Biennial in Tokyo; an award from the Bridgestone Art Museum in Lisbon; the Alfons Roig Award in Valencia; the National Award for the Fine Arts in Spain; a medal from the biennial International Festival of the Plastic Arts in Baghdad; and in 1993 the Medal of the Order of Andrés Bello in Venezuela.

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RODIN MALAGA, Sculptures at Calle Larios, Malaga he work of the world-famous French sculptor, Auguste Rodin, is gracing the most famous street in Malaga, Calle Marques de Larios, where the seven bronze sculptures remains under 24 hour guard …. (more)

This year the Malaga Carnival takes place between 14th and 22nd  February. Do not miss the burial of the boqueron ‘entierro de boqueron’ on 22nd February at 18.00h - the most famous procession of a giant fish, which is the symbol of both, the town and the locals who are often called in Spain as ‘boquerones’. The celebrations start at 12.00h with the children fiesta at Calle Larios and are followed by ‘degustacion’- testing of the fish at 14.30h also at Calle Larios. The information about the festival can be found on Spanish websites: CarnavalDeMalaga.com and CarnavalMalaga.com and in English on Burial of the Boquerone 2007 - beautifulyoo.com and Malaga Carnival on TVSpain.tv .

The carnival include many parades, competitions and street parties. The most important events, which distinguish the Malaga Carnival from other world carnivals, are the performing groups - ‘murgas’ and ‘comparsas’ - clik to play the below video and find more about the Malaga Carnival on TVSpain.

In spite of the widespread economical recessions and credit crunch, the British Ski Center based in Sierra Nevada has seen a comparable level of business this season to last year with a slight increase in January. This comes perhaps more of a surprise given the added factor of the Pound Sterling dropping so much against the Euro and making Spain around 30% more expensive than this time last year!

‘We have retained our numbers at 11 ski & snowboard instructors and now have two secretaries working hard at responding to customer reservations, greeting clients and coordinating everyone with their respective instructors. Much of our business is from repeat customers or clients who have been recommended by past customers. Our website has also evidently attracted more business this year to last which is an encouraging sign. This year saw our first increase in prices in 3 years but we have kept them entirely competitive with the other ski schools in resort at a base rate of 38.00 euros per hours tuition’ said Giles Birch who established the British Ski Center with Jonathan Buzzard in winter 2002-3.

They aim not to set up just another ski school but also to offer a more personalised service to the clients. The ski instructors are qualified at the “Escuela Española de Esquí (E.E.E.)” and at the “Centro de Formación de Deportes de Invierno Sierra Nevada (C.E.D.I.)”. The snowboard instructors are qualified at the Asociación Española de Snowboard (A.E.S.), at the Escuela Española de Snowboard (E.E.S.) and at the Centro de Formación de Deportes de Invierno Sierra Nevada (C.E.D.I.)

Watch TVSpain Channel: SIERRA NEVADA SKI RESORT TV

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Sierra Nevada is currently experiencing its best season of snow in 13 years with average depths recorded up to an impressive 4 metres. The season opened on the 15th December, earlier than ever before and the resort management are hoping to remain open now until the 15th May making this the first full 6 month season in Sierra Nevada’s history.

The resort of Sierra Nevada offers its visitors a wide range of facilities and a ski terrain to suit skiers & boarders of all standards. It has the best snow and the longest season in the country. Sierra Nevada has 61km of ski slopes with 45 pistes and 6 off-piste routes. There are 2 cable cars, 12 chair lifts and 5 ski lifts. The ski resort is open from 9am to 5pm although you can also ski at night. An important factor that very few resorts are able to boast of, is that you are practically guaranteed sunshine throughout your stay! You can learn more by reading Sierra Neva Overview and view the videos below.

All runs are open and with the huge amounts of snowfall several new runs have been prepared and opened in various areas around the ski terrain. In general the piste conditions are superb with powder quality snow. Some of the upper areas have been exposed to high winds and are currently more hard packed and a little icy in places. The off piste is excellent and easily accessible practically anywhere on the mountain except on the upper regions where there is still a lot of icy areas. Avalanche risk is currently very high so be sensible and ask those who know where the best and safest areas would be to ski. All the bad weather of late has now subsided and fantastic Sierra Nevada blue skies have opened up with the sun shining brightly. The weekends are getting busy so try to stick to mid-week where possible bearing in mind also that the coming two weeks will be busy due to half term and Carnival holidays.

WATCH TVSPAIN CHANNEL: SIERRA NEVADA TV

Featured videos:

SIERRA NEVADA DISCOVERED - video trailer
Sierra Nevada Discovered is a trailer, which include the highlights of several videos made by TVSpain and featuring the ski resort of Sierra Nevada

SIERRA NEVADA - RIO SPORT - ski rental and snowboard hire
Rio Sport is is a winter equipment rental company. Thy have three shops at Sierra Nevada Ski Resort, huge selection of skis, snowboards, boots and cloths.

SIERRA NEVADA - BRITISH SKI CENTER
Ski School British Ski Center has qualified English speaking instructors and is well reputed within the resort. They aim not to set up just another ski school but also to offer a more personalised service to the clients.

SIERRA NEVADA - HOTEL MELIA
The Melia Sierra Nevada is a four star hotel is located in the heart of the Sierra Nevada ski resort, just 100 m from the ski lifts. Melia SolIt is the leading Spanish hotel chain in both the city and resort markets, the third largest hotel chain in Europe, and the twelfth largest hotel chain in the world. Sol Melia is also the world leader in resort hotels and number one in the ranking in Latin America and the Caribbean. The company provides almost 350 hotels with 85,000 rooms in 30 countries on 4 continents.

SIERRA NEVADA - HOTEL MELIA SOL Y NIEVE
The Melia Sol y Nieve is a four star hotel located in the heart of the Sierra Nevada ski resort, just 100 m from the ski lifts. Activity programmes in the hotel or in the surrounding area; programmes focused on health and beauty; programmes for kids, for adults, or for the whole family; programmes for the active and energetic, or for those seeking rest and relaxation

SIERRA NEVADA - RESTAURANT - RUTA DEL VELETA
The Ruta del Veleta Restaurant was founded in 1976 under the management of the Pedraza brothers. Distinguished figures fram the world of politics, arts, economics and sciences have passed throgh them. For example, ministers, the former President, Felipe Gonzalez, and a long list on which the Spanish Royal Family have a place of honor, emblematic sign of the excellence of the place.