International athletes on the Costa

AROUND 620 international athletes have chosen to train in the sporting facili‐ties in Torremolinos during the month of April. The popular town can expect five football teams, 14 swimming teams, and 14 athletics teams.

The teams will travel from Britain, Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Switzer‐land, Estonia, and Slo ‐vakia.

The swimming teams will train at the Virgen del Carmen III swimming pool, the largest swimming team coming from Britain. The athletics teams will use the Cuidad de Torre ‐molinos sports stadium. The football teams will train on the José Miguel González Rey ‘Josemi’ pitch.

With so many sports ‐people travelling and training along the coast, it really supports the towns in the low season helping the economy all year round. The area hosted 820 athletes in the month of March.

THE highly awaited annual festival dedicated to music and the Spanish guitar, Ronda International Guitar Festival, is on its way to the Costa del Sol. The seventh edition of the festival will be held be‐tween June 6 and 10.

The event will feature renowned artists from Spain, Denmark, Italy, Croatia, Mon‐tenegro, France, Portugal and Albania offering different mu‐sical genres. The festival strives to highlight the versa‐tility and diversity of styles that the guitar embraces: clas‐sical, romantic, flamenco, jazz and contemporary.

Concerts will be performed at the Convento de Santo Domingo which is a unique space in the heart of the his‐torical old town of Ronda.

Concerts will take place be‐tween Tuesday June 6 and Saturday June 10. Matinee shows begin at midday whilst the evening concerts will commence at 8.00pm.

Tickets can be purchased