OUR TRIP to MALAGA
JULY 2008
We arrived from
New York (direct, non-stop DELTA flight 162) in the afternoon of July 8th.
While the
MUSICA NUEVA MALAGA Festival will be held July 18-26 in the town of FRIGILIANA
(some 50 Km NE of Malaga) in the province of ANDALUSIA, Spain, we decided to
rent a nice beach-apartment in the nearby town of NERJA (pronounced NERHHA), 6
KM South of Frigiliana, on the COSTA DEL SOL.
Our apartment
is ½ block from the best beach in the area, The Burriana Beach (see
below the view from our terrace). The apartment has two bedrooms, wonderfully
furnished !
The boardwalk
is passing in front of lots of Mediterranean style houses, hotels, restaurants,
and lots of cheap stuff (but expensiveÉ) stores.
Nerja is
surrounded by the SIERRA NEVADA Mountains. There are lots of villas overlooking
the sea in the nearby hills, one nicer that the other. Most of the owners are wealthy Spaniards (some of
which are members of Emil SeinŐs School Band, as well as many British, French,
Danish, Swedish and German families.
A typical
entrance to a house in Andalusian style !!
Emil Sein owns this large van for transporting instruments and musicians
for their many annual concerts. They drove it also, way out to Romania for a
family vacation !!
Iulia, EmilŐs wife is the Principal cellist of the Malaga Symphony.
Iulia and Marta enjoying an late afternoon in Frigiliana (above and below
pictures).
Typical house in Frigiliana, a town voted by the Andalusian
Tourist Board as the most beautiful town in the region !
Different view of the piazza at the base of the Frigiliana
town (population 2900 + ca. 300 or more tourists most of the year.
This is a warm climate, perhaps subtropical weather (it is
just ca. 180 Km North of the African continent. There are lots of palm trees,
mango and orange trees as well.
See below two pictures from the interior of this very
wornderful building, which houses a library, lecture rooms, computer rooms,
etc.
Emil shows us
where the festival will be held, in the courtyard of CASA DE CULTURA,
Frigiliana !!!
The town of
Frigiliana presents several events annually, dedicated to the three cultures
still evident in the region, Christian, Jewish and Moslem. The FRIGILIANA 3 CULTURE festival
brings musicians, dancers, and artists from all over the world to emphasize the
new openness and interest of the local people.
It is good to
know that before the Inquisition, the three communities lived in peace
together. Lots of the Greek
knowledge of the Classical times passed to the Medieval Europe through this
region. The Sylvester II Pope learned the three languages, along with
Mathematics, Music, Philosophy of the Moors and Jews, before becoming one of
the progressive popes of the 10-11th Century. There were lots of
translations of the Greek literature, Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy,
Music, from Greek to Arabic, to Yiddish and Latin languages, thus triggering
the period of Renaissance.
Our first
meeting with Emil SeinŐs family and Francesco, the mayor of Frigiliana, a tuba
player in EmilŐs local band !!!
Above, a Moors
fortress of the 12th Century still in place.
Checking the
courtyard of the festival.
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