Is The Greatest War Heroes

The Costa del Sol in Malaga

"Agriculture is the main source of wealth in Marbella: rich land, well watered by streams and rivers and by wells, are two or three crops per year. The field is divided into small farms, which makes agricultural work has been done with primitive tools: it is not difficult to see in some cottages Roman plow. " So we sold our tourism potential in 1960. The text is an excerpt from a guidebook on the coast of the province published by Editions La Garza.

The bookstores are orphanages of the word. Sometimes, the dust of oblivion and disorder, pleasant encounters happen, was one of those days that I bent the spine rebúsqueda more than usual, as if he received with a bow. Careful editing and semi fifty numbered copies, with a large team of collaborators, led by Elena Sanz Villamana and Leon Jimenez, good photographs, maps and, further improving its quality, drawings Rafael Pérez Estrada and Enrique Brinkmann.

Marbella Describes a budding paradise bordering on stage and even dream lyric: "The waves of infinite shades of greens, lemons wear their yellow gems that lean on the famous Arab suppliers of palm trees; pomegranates that appear to hold a flame of fire, tall cypress trees, fruit trees and the pine copudo gives its generous shade. At the slopes of the mountain almond dare in January and its branches have popped in soft pink foam, mixed the tree of peace, ravines with crop orchards, orange fruit set or the sensual perfume of flowers, geraniums , steam from the earth and wild flowers. "

The fragility of the landscape is moving portrait of a beauty marbellense, cheap and easy prey "on the huge stage Vibra light , light hurting the white houses scattered among the splendor of the lush vegetation. From here we dominate the splendid bay, full of sunshine, where boats bob on the splendor of the waters full of intensely bright white strokes. "

Eleven thousand hectares extension, ten thousand inhabitants, cereal farming and vineyards, cork oak forest remnants, 100 boats and 500 sailors. As the only manufacturing industry of the Board of Trustees esparto Our Lady of Mount Caramel. "It provides drinking water from a spring called Puerto Rico. Customs has, central telephone and telegraph and postal authorities. " Good roads, streets well paved and clean. A shelter of the Youth Front in which "they have taken care to the smallest detail of comfort and beauty." A camp, Pinar "with a charming rustic chapel." "A great Abastos market ... and one building that will house Arrows Naval School, at the end of the promenade and another Labor Institute. "

For having, among so sweetening up a heroic act: "... the people of Marbella are adept at fighting, so when the Passover of the Holy Spirit in 1621 , a squadron of Turkish corsairs wants to remove the towers under five ships of merchants Marbella friends, marbelleses defend themselves and force the enemy to withdraw. "

On the road changes are observed: "The Hotel Alhamar between a green blanket ... the Hotel Artola and more pine forest forming ... At mile 202 Marbe a large company, SA is urbanizing in these parts ... The original sale of the plates ... The City Association under construction ... The Hotel RICM as a toy ... A just out of Marbella, is the Hotel St. Nicholas and near him the service of gasoline. Later a reputable restaurant, Casa Ramon ... The Breath, bungalows, a place like others, who preferred the traditional hotel in one apartment building spread in the field. The same applies to the Marbella Club Hotel, an area dedicated now to get in the funny department, where prairie grass, the visit of tourists ... The Rodeo, bungalows hidden among the colorful bougainvillea ... the Grand Hotel Guadalmina " .

The Marbella guide described and fiftieth anniversary. An anniversary like everyone else, yellowed pages, dim lights and deep-rooted nostalgia that hang off the bad memories and heavy. Was the result of an official version of the remark of a tourist space, with a designation created on purpose. No margin for improvisation, not to chance, much less ingenuity.