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...The conservative-run Andalusia region, whose Costa del Sol beach havens include Málaga and Marbella, has allowed hotels to fill their pools but is stopping most apartment blocks and private homes from filling...
...The nearest town, Buenavista del Norte, is a 15-minute drive. What A restored villa on a 10,000 sq m plot, with a main residence and an independent apartment, adding up to 290 sq m of living space....
...What A villa with more than 1,300 sq m of living space including seven bedrooms, two of which are in separate apartments and most of which have walk-in closets....
...On New Year’s Eve, thousands gather at the Puerta del Sol to honour the Spanish tradition of eating 12 grapes during the new year countdown....
...Who Sotheby’s International Realty Villa, Marbella, €35mn Where In Las Lomas del Marbella Club, a residential development built in the 1970s on the north side of the Golden Mile....
...And the Costa del Sol has emerged as a particular haven, especially among Scandinavian buyers....
...The hotel also has four impressive “houses” on the rooftop level, styled as stand-alone apartments, two of which have their own huge terrace (one of them has a barbecue) with views of the city, all complete...
...What A seven-bedroom, six-bathroom air-conditioned villa with about 1,265 sq m of interior living space and almost 6ha of land....
...He was born in 1881 in this rented apartment in a 19th-century apartment block on the city’s Plaza de la Merced, the first child of María Picasso López and José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art teacher....
...The Costa del Sol boom has not yet run out of steam, says estate agent James Vizetelly of Affinity Spain. “Transactions are fewer but of higher value,” he says. Now their average buyer spends €400,000....
...They head out to the Costa del Sol....
...And that means for the Kinahans, Dubai will be like the Costa del Sol, but even better, more luxurious, lower risk and way beyond the reach of European law enforcement....
...From the get-go, news that Finca Cortesin – discreetly poised between Marbella and Sotogrande on Spain’s Costa del Sol – would be taking over one of the island’s best-loved lodgings had seemed an enticing...
...It would be easy to miss the sleek copper entrance, on a side street just a two-minute walk from Puerta del Sol square (you could not be more central than this)....
...Málaga-Costa del Sol airport is a 20-minute drive. What A three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment with nearly 380 sq m of living space in a Baroque 17th-century building....
...Dear followers, I should like you to know that on Boxing Day, in Rome, after taking a comfortable walk to the Piazza del Popolo, followed by a stroll through the Villa Borghese, and then back to the apartment...
...Why Villa Romana del Casale, a Unesco World Heritage Site with one of the world’s largest collections of Roman mosaics, which were preserved by a 12th-century landslide, is nearby....
...where Franco is rumoured to have stayed, a sprawling apartment complex, unfinished due to persistent objections by the local community....
...While his empire of hotels and gastronomia now extends from Punta del Este to Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, Brazil still feels like where Fasano does Fasano best....
...Further still, the estate’s lush tropical gardens and views of the Costa del Sol....
...The property, a 420 sq m penthouse, is in Palazzo Portinari Salviati, a prestigious family home converted into high-end apartments and hotel suites on Via del Corso, with views over Brunelleschi’s cathedral...
...To disguise the source of the money, the gang created a luxury vodka brand that was promoted at parties and events in the nightclubs and restaurants of Spain’s Costa del Sol to create the impression of a...
...Now they want something drivable,” says Hans Veenhuijsen at Costa del Sol 365 Properties, part of Christie’s International Real Estate. “Their priority is having a sea view or frontline golf....
...Criminals from Britain and the Italian mafia loved their new gated villas so much they earned the coast the nickname “Costa del Crime”. Timeshare apartments proliferated....
...B&B from €200, tenutadipaternostro.it Row with the flow in Venice Venice has its two Biennales, and its Festival del Cinema....
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