Beach upgrade

ment of a whopping €1.1 million is expected to be completed in approximately 10 months.

The mayor, Victor Navas Perez, confirmed that: “Every year we suffer the consequences of easterly and westerly storms, which end up reducing the capacity of our beaches due to the loss of sand: in a tourist municipality like ours it is important to implement measures to help stabilise the coastline.”

The work will consist of extending the existing 80 metre­long breakwater be tween the two beaches which is expected to solve the erosion problems and improve this area.”

Benalmadena was originally a village growing around a mine, the name was given to the town by the Arabs. Benalmadena means ‘son of the mines’.