BENALMÁDENA MONTHLY

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NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR FOREIGN RESIDENTS
BENALMÁDENA
MONTHLY
Issue No. 11
November 2012
Foreign Residents' Department 952 579 979
www.benalmadena.com/extranjeros/english.php
WHAT'S ON
Benalmádena in November
Page 7
NEWS
Page 3
Sightseeing bus arrives in Pueblo
INFORMATION
The Teleasistencia service
Page 6
Empadronamiento
benefits explained
Deadline approaching for foreign residents
to confirm 'padrón' status or be dropped
COUNCILLOR Adolfo Fernández, last month held a meeting
with representatives of more
than 20 foreign-resident groups
and associations as part of a
campaign to inform the community about the benefits of becoming a registered ('empadronado') resident, including tax discounts.
The meeting, held at the
town hall, was attended by a wide array of foreign-resident
groups including Elim Family,
the Photographic Society, Age
Care, the Irish Association of
Spain and the Finnish Association among others. Sr Fernández said he was pleased with the
interest showed by attendees regarding the need for foreigners
to confirm their empadronamiento by November 30, as mandated to the town hall by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
"Benalmádena town hall has
launched an informative campaign aimed at foreign residents," said the councillor, explaining that those who have
not confirmed or updated their
empadronamiento in recent years must do so or they will be
"dropped from the register on
the assumption that they no longer live here, and will lose their
right to subsidies or discounts,
for example on IBI property tax
and rubbish collection fees".
In addition to the tax discounts, registered residents can
request a doctor at any of the
Councillor Fernández with association and club representatives
town’s health centres, enrol
their children at local schools,
get a provincial bus discount
pass and, for pensioners, get discounts on local public transport
and have the chance to join the
municipal seniors‘ centres, he
said. They can also vote in local
elections.
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BENALMADENA MONTHLY
November 2011
Castillo Bil-Bil set for
€500,000 facelift
Current style will be maintained in the historic building's first major overhall in 20 years
BENALMÁDENA’S Castillo
Bil-Bil, a municipal exhibition
hall and one of the Costa’s
most popular locations for civil wedding ceremonies, is set
to receive a 500,000-euro restoration.
The
terracotta-coloured
1930s Arab-style building has
undergone no major improvements or repairs for nearly 20
years, explained mayor Paloma García Gómez during a
presentation of the project
last month along with her
councillors for public works
and culture, Concha Cifrián
and Yolanda Peña, respectively. Due to its seaside location
the building has suffered significant wear and tear from
the elements, she said.
"The project is not intended
to change the current image of
the Castillo Bil-Bil and its sur-
roundings but to improve, update and restore what is already there,“ said the mayor.
The
project,
funded
through the Plan Qualifica
scheme for improving tourism infrastructure, takes in
the building itself plus some
3,500 square metres of walkways, fountains and gardened
areas around it. Work is expected to start before Christmas and be completed by Semana Santa.
Work on the building will
include interior and exterior
repairs and painting, an upgrade to the glass roof covering the interior patio, which
has leaks, and improvements
to the restrooms to make them
accessible for disabled people.
Outside the building, the
entire paved area will be torn
up and replaced with textured
Mayor García Gálvez (centre) presenting the project
Photo: Rohu
concrete paving tiles. Several
of the fountains will be repaired and others removed or reconfigured.
The Castillo Bil-Bil was designed by architect Enrique
Atienza and built in the 1930s.
Originally a private summer
home, it was acquired by the
town hall in the 1980s and the
building and surroundings
were refurbished in 1994.
Town hall separates rubbish
and water bills to reduce rate
Empadronamiento
benefits
ning a savings of at least 50 euros a
year".
The
rate
reduction will
apply not only
to full-time residents but also to owners
of secondary
residences or
holiday
hoThe mayor and councillors explaining the new
mes, said the
Photo: Rohu
rubbish collection billing system
mayor.
The new system, which
THE town hall has announced it is to return to its old will come into effect in Jasystem of separate rubbish nuary 2013, will not only uncollection and water bills, re- bind the rubbish bill from the
versing the decision of the water bill, but will also reprevious administration to turn to the old system of
combine the bills and the fee establishing rates based on
structure for rubbish collecti- the type of property, which
on, which resulted in increa- are separated into three categories: flats, at rate of 190 eused rates.
Mayor Paloma García Gál- ros a year; semi-detached or
vez said that the move will row houses (215 euros); and
decrease rubbish bills by "a detached houses (310 euros).
minimum of 20 per cent, mea- Under the current combined
billing system the rubbish
fees are established by a fixed rate plus a sliding rate
based on water consumption.
"Eight-five per cent of homes in the town will pay a
minimum of 20 per cent less
on their rubbish bill, translating to 50 euros less a year,
which was the greatest discount we could achieve given
that the PSOE and IU during
the previous administration
condemned all Benalmádena
residents to a high rubbish
rate, which was included in
the official Austerity Plan
submitted to the government
before the ouster vote, to
which we are forced to adhere," said the mayor.
The new billing system
will continue to offer a five
per cent discount for paying
by standing order and a 55
per cent discount for registered ('empadronado') residents
who are up to date on all municipal taxes and fees.
Continued from front page
Confirmation of the empadronamiento should be carried
out before November 30 at the
town hall Padrón Office or at
the Tenencia de Alcaldía offices
in Arroyo de la Miel (at the Casa de la Cultura) and Benalmádena Costa (at the tourism office). Some documentation will
be required including the original and photocopies of a passport and, for non-EU citizens,
a Tarjeta de Residencia. Similar documentation will be necessary for any family members included on the empadronamiento.
People signing up for empadronamiento for the first time
must also present their property deed or, if they live in a rented property, their rental contract.
The list of the registered residents who have been identified by the INE to be dropped
from the padrón if they do not
confirm their status by November 30 can be consulted online
at www.benamadena.com or by
calling 952 579 804.
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In Brief
INTERPRETER BOOST
The free interpreter service at
the Casa de la Cultura in Arroyo
de la Miel has extended its hours
after several new volunteer interpreters joined the programme. The service, which offers assistance in more than half a dozen languages, was previously
available only on Thursdays
from 10am to 1pm and has now
been extended to the same hours
on Fridays.
PAY UP
Benalmádena has called on the
Junta de Andalucía to pay
around two million euros it
owes the town hall in previously approved job-training grants.
Some of the money pertains to
previous years but around
900,000 euros is for training programmes that should be underway now - for some 130 jobless
people - but have not been launched due to the lack of funds.
CHARITABLE TOWN
Town hall officials last month expressed their gratitude to local residents for their charitable contributions to local causes. A weekend food drive at supermarkets
collected some 1,500 kilos of basic
items for distribution to local people in need, while a benefit event
for Idaira, an infant born with
spinal muscular atrophy, raised
1,500 euros.
DISABLED SWIMMING
BENALMADENA MONTHLY
Sightseeing bus
arrives in Pueblo
Double-decker bus tour extends its route from Costa and Arroyo, taking
tourists to Buddhist stupa, butterfly park and Pre-Columbian museum
THE open-top double-decker
sightseeing bus that for several years has been carrying
tourists around Benalmádena
Costa and Arroyo de la Miel
has now extended its route to
include Benalmádena Pueblo.
The town hall says the move is a major boost to one of
its principal promotional
goals: "pushing the Pueblo as
a unique and singular tourism destination on the Costa
del Sol".
The hop-on, hop-off bus is
run by City Sightseeing
Tours, the same company
that operates similar tourist
buses in cities throughout
Europe, the UK and around
the world.
The route in Benalmádena
Pueblo includes the Buddhist
stupa, the Mariposario butterfly park, the Felipe Orlando Pre-Columbian Museum
and "the uniqueness of a typi-
Local officials marked the 30th
anniversary of Benalmádena's
recreational port last month.
Puerto Marina opened to the
public on October 9, 1982, and
has become one of the town’s
major attractions with residential, shopping and entertainment offerings as well as
1,172 moorages. A major expansion of the marina is currently
being planned.
The tour bus on its new Pueblo route
cal Andalusian village with
white houses and narrow, flower-adorned streets," said the
town hall.
Local officials say the inclusion of the Pueblo means
the sightseeing bus now takes
in the full array of the town’s
tourism offerings. "The City
Sightseeing Tours service
Photo: Rohu
starts at the Tivoli World
amusement park and offers a
compete itinerary including
the marina, the Paseo Marítimo, the centre of Arroyo de
la Miel, the ride up the Pueblo and the various theme
parks in the town," said the
tourism councillor, Adolfo
Fernández.
Loan extension allows €4m for
local projects
Protección Civil volunteers in
Benalmádena provided more
than 650 assisted-swimming
sessions for disabled people on
local beaches this summer, an
increase of 30 per cent compared to last year. The programme, launched by the town hall’s
Health Department, provides
assisted swimming on two beaches, Malapesquera and Los
Maites.
MARINA TURNS 30
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Mayor García Gálvez and
councillor Concha Cifrián
BENALMÁDENA town hall
has secured access to four
million euros for a battery of
local projects after the government agreed to grant it
an extension on a low-cost loan scheme from 2007.
The town hall was set to lose the funding after the deadline for using it expired at the
end of June,
before the current administration
took
the reigns at
the town hall,
said the mayor,
Paloma
García
Gálvez, who negotiated the oneyear extension.
public works
The funds,
Photo: Rohu
from the State
Fund for Tourism Infrastructure Modernisation (FOMIT), are earmarked
for a number of projects, the
largest of which is the construction of a 30-metre-long
bridge over Arroyo Hondo to
link the residential zones of
La Viñuela and Torrequebrada, budgeted at around 900,000
euros.
Other projects to be undertaken with the funding include the creation of a new roundabout at the bullring, which
will also provide a new access
to the municipal cemetery
and the nearby sports centre;
improvement works on the
Avenida del Sol coast road;
the relaunch of work on the
pavement along Avenida del
Cosmos; and upgrades to the
Jardines del Muro and Parque Los Limones in Benalmádena Pueblo, and Parque de la
Paloma in Arroyo de la Miel.
At Paloma park work will include new benches and other
furnishings, lighting improvements, repairs to the ground-covering in children’s playground
areas, and the repair or remodelling of the small piers that
allow the public to walk out
over the pond, which are currently closed.
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BENALMADENA MONTHLY
Trip to Morocco a
major success
A hundred residents of half a dozen nationalities joined the excursion
THE Viva Marrakech trip to Morocco organised last month by
the town hall’s Foreigners‘ Department was a major success,
reported department officials.
A hundred residents including Britons, Germans, Belgians, Norwegians, New Zealanders and more than a dozen
Spaniards joined the five-day
excursion.
The trip started with a ferry
crossing from Algeciras to Ceuta, where participants were picked up by two coaches to carry
them on the rest of their journey.
First stop was Casablanca,
Morocco’s economic and business centre, with visits to the
In Brief
SAFER SCHOOLS
Staff members at Benalmádena’s schools are to receive training in CPR and the use of defibrillators in a scheme launched
by the town hall and the town’s
CHARE hospital. The aim is to
provide school staff the skills
necessary handle emergencies
until medical staff arrive. Mayor Paloma García Gálvez said
the move "could save the lives
of students".
HOTEL HELP
Trip members at the Hassan II mosque in Casablanca
in Marrakech included the Koutoubia Mosque - a 12th-century
construction that inspired other buildings
including Sevilla’s La Giralda - the Bahia Palace and
the old Medina city walls.
One
hugely
popular activity was a
night-time ride in horsedrawn carriages.
In a Berber pharmacy in Marrakech
The group
then travelled
Hassan II mosque - the third on to Rabat, Morocco’s capital
largest mosque in the world - city, visiting numerous sights
including the exterior of the
and other major sights.
The tour then continued to Royal Palace, which is the resiMarrakech and its famous Jem- dence of Morocco’s current
ma el-Fnaa plaza, a UNESCO King Mohammed VI, and the
World Heritage site and a hub Hassan Tower and Mausoleum
of trade and activity teeming of Mohammed V.
The bus trip back home was
with musicians, snake charmers, monkey trainers and ot- via the coastal town of Asilah
her local delights. Other visits and the city of Tangier to Ceu-
ta, where the group caught the
ferry back to Algeciras.
Organisers and participants
agreed that the trip was a great
success and an excellent opportunity to "experience some of
the wonders of Morocco, so nearby and yet a world away,"
said the Foreigners‘ Department’s Joanna Drozdowska.
Following the trip the department received some two dozen
emails from participants describing what an outstanding time they had.
British, and for more than two decades has been carrying out fundraising activities and events to
support a variety of charities and
non-governmental organisations.
"This gathering was part of a
round of meetings we are holding
with foreign-resident groups to le-
The town council has approved
a measure that will reduce water rates for local hotels by 40
per cent beginning next year.
The move is aimed at supporting the tourism sector, said officials. For 2013, the hotels will
pay no water bills during the
first trimester and will then be
charged at a rate of 0.987 euros
per cubic metre.
STINGING BACK
This holiday season was
blighted by the appearance of a
plague of jellyfish that stung
hundreds of people as they bathed in the sea. Benalmádena
does not want a repeat in 2013
so has been consulting with experts over what can be done.
Over 50 companies are being asked for advice with the hope
that preventative solutions can
be put in place.
GARDENS UPGRADE
Marrakech water men
Councillor meets with Social and
Welfare Club
BENALMÁDENA'S councillor
for foreign residents, Adolfo Fernández, met recently with members of the Social and Welfare
Club to learn first-hand about the
club's work and activities.
The Social and Welfare Club
has around 120 members, mostly
November 2011
arn more about their activities
and their daily life in Benalmádena," said the councillor. "The meetings also allow us to hear their
concerns, suggestions and proposals, with the goal of promoting
the full integration of foreign residents in Benalmádena society."
The Jardines del Muro in Benalmádena Pueblo are set to undergo a nearly 200,000-euro upgrade.
The project takes in 700 square
metres including the caves and
the walkway leading to the Santo
Domingo de Guzmán church.
The work, which includes improvements and the creation of new
spaces for public use, is to start
before year end and take four
months to complete.
CIRCUS SOLIDARITY
The Circo Berlín circus that
was in Benalmádena earlier
this month has handed over
3,530 euros to the town hall to
be used for the municipal soup
kitchen. Under a deal with the
town hall, the circus sold 700 tickets to raise funds for the food
handout programme, and also
provided 700 free tickets for
children whose families receive
social services assistance.
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BENALMADENA MONTHLY
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The Royal Air Forces
Association - RAFA
Benalmádena Branch Spanish Registration G93009629
THE ROYAL Air Forces Association, RAFA, founded in the
1920s, provides help, welfare, support, friendship and care for the
whole RAF family - that is, anyone who has served or is serving in
the RAF or Commonwealth Air
Forces Worldwide.
This includes those who served in the many conflicts, from
WWII through to the more recent
ones such as the Gulf Wars, Iraq
and Afghanistan, those who just
served without being involved in
these conflicts, and current serving personnel and their families.
Here on the Costa del Sol, the
Benalmádena Branch 1357, which
was formed from the Costa del
Sol Branch in 2002, covers an area
from Estepona in the West, to
East Malaga, and about 80kM inland.
The Welfare Team are involved in many cases where exRAF or their dependents require help ranging from medical or
care help, repatriation, or simply the use of our disability
aids.
We arrange home help and care and provide the essential link
Over the four years to December 2011, this branch alone has
distributed over 237,000€ in welfare aid.
In 2011 we dispersed over
51,000€ to needy cases, made over
70 Welfare Visits and involving
travel of over 3100kM. The
Branch is registered in Spain to
ensure the correct and legal distribution of monies received from
the UK, and that collected here
under the banner of 'Wings' collections.
RAFA is also a membership
organisation, open to ex-RAF
(Full Members) and the general
public (Associate Members).
With around 70,000 members
and 500 branches in the United
Kingdom, throughout Europe
and further afield, membership
offers a wide range of benefits for
serving or former RAF personnel
and anyone with an interest in
aviation.
Welfare help is NOT dependent on being a member of RAFA, this help or assistance is available to any qualifying RAF or
Ex-RAF person, or his/her dependents.
nalmadena.co.uk for local information including the programme
of social events, or simply visit
your local Branch 1357 at The Galaxy Bar, Avenida Bonanza, Arroyo de la Miel on the 3rd Mon-
day of the month at 2pm.
The Branch Chairman is Fred
Briggs on 952 119 708, and the
Branch Hon.Secretary is Jack
Griggs on 952 484 117. We look forward to your support.
CALLING ALL CLUBS
to the RAF Benevolent Fund and
Social Services, in UK and in
Spain.
Recently we have been receiving two to four new cases every
month all of which have to be assessed and processed.
Being a member helps in keeping in touch and goes towards
funding the many cases we handle each year.
For further information, visit
the RAF Association website at
www.rafa.org.uk, or www.rafabe-
BENALMÁDENA Monthly would like to welcome club and association members to the pages of this new council publication.
Each month we will be featuring a local group and its members on this page. Inclusion is absolutely free and gives readers
a chance to see the many activities available to them through
membership to your club.
But remember we’re a monthly publication so we need your
news as soon as possible!
Contact Joanna Drozdawska at the town hall’s Foreign
Residents‘ Department on 952 579 979 or email residents@benalmadena.com for more information.
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BENALMADENA MONTHLY
November 2011
The Teleasistencia service
What it offers and how to apply for it (part one)
THE JUNTA de Andalucía’s home telephone assistance service
is a personal attention system based on new technology that allows users to stay permanently in
contact by phone.
It is available:
• 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Without leaving your home
• Just by pressing a button
The Teleasistencia service gives dependent people, and their families, a higher level of independence, helping them to live in
their own homes and integrate in
their immediate environment,
which is why the Law for the Promotion of Personal Independence
and Attention to Dependents specifically includes it in the Catalogue of Services that should be provided by public adminstrations.
Device Description
The Andaluz Tele-assistance Service (SAT) is made up of two appliances. One is a fixed terminal
that is usually installed next to the
user’s telephone and the other is a
remote control button that can either be hung around the user’s
neck, or worn around the wrist like a bracelet.
Users must always wear the remote control device when they are
at home so that they can speak to
someone at any moment from any
part of their home. To call the operator immediately, they just push
either of the two buttons (the one
on the fixed terminal or the remote control one). Their call will go
straight through to the operator
who will be able to identify who
they are and activate whatever action is needed.
By pushing either one of the
buttons users can seek information, ask anything they have doubts
about, request help in an emergency or simply have a chat. There is always someone there for
them.
What does it offer?
• Direct and personal attention of any kind, 24 hours a day,
every day of the year.
• An immediate response to
emergency situations calling on
whatever help is needed.
• Notification of family
members, or whoever the user has
indicated, if they are needed.
• Follow-up after emergency
situations.
• Conversation and company
for users who live on their own or
are isolated.
• Information about services
and assistanse from the Andaluz
Social Services.
• Regular contact with users to
offer them information of interest
and see how they are.
• Reminders to carry out specific activities, such as medical appointments or to take their medication.
• The free installation and
maintenance of the Teleasistencia
devices.
And also…
• Apart from contacting the Teleasistencia operator, the device
also allows users to answer any
incoming phone calls from any
part of their home. By pressing
the button, they can take the phone call as a hands-free one.
• The remote control device is
totally waterproof and is totally
secure to bathe or shower with.
Continued in next month's
edition
Spotlight on... Ken and Jenny German
EACH
issue
Benalmádena
Monthly briefly turns the spotlight on an expat resident to get to
know a little bit about the person
behind the face...
In this edition we asked Ken
and Jenny German to sit in the
interview chair.
1. Full name and age? Ken and
Jenny German, 62 and 63.
2. What were you doing before
you came to Spain? We worked
in education. I was an FE Lecturer for over 30 years, teaching
Physics, Maths, Electronics and
Basic Numeracy. Jenny taught
on, and managed, English as a Second Language and Basic Education Programmes, both in FE and
in Adult Education. We also
brought up two sons, now in their
mid thirties. The elder now lives
and works in the States and the
other in the UK.
3. Why have you chosen to live
in Benalmádena and how long
have you been here? We spent a
number of holidays in Nerja and
had originally planned to relocate
there after taking early retirement. In 2004 we spent a few days
in Mijas and visited the Pueblo,
Arroyo and the Costa. We were
impressed by the area´'s infrastructure, and particularly the
good rail and bus links
8. Do you feel integrated? We both feel
and the medical serthat total integration
vices. Being a keen reawould take longer
der Jenny also liked the
than the time that we
idea of accessing a lihave left to us. We do
brary with a wide seour best to speak Spalection
of
English
nish as much as posbooks. On the strength
sible and know that
of that we bought an off
this is generally applan property on that
preciated
by
holiday, but that´'s anotneighbours and by
her story!
trades people. The
4. How long have you
lived here? We've lived
Foreigner's Departhere for over five years.
ment is a real asset
Life here is like it was for us in the UK when
and has done a lot to
5. Do you feel at home
we were young say Ken and Jenny
here? We both love liintroduce us to the
ving here and can't imaways of the local comgine how we would feel if for any around the playground under the munity and to Spain as a whole.
reason we were forced to return to supervision of staff. Now that we 9. How would you promote inthe UK. Before we left the UK our are used to it we have been con- tegration between foreigners
friends told us that moving here verted to the mañana philosophy and Spanish people? We think
was a very brave thing to do. Ma- and try to do only one thing each it's essential that we find ways to
ny afternoons we sit out on the day. It´'s great to be relatively stress actively contribute to the life of
terrace in the sun, with a glass of free and to enjoy an outdoor life the community. Given the curwine to hand, trying very hard to style in the sun on a daily basis.
rent financial situation here, and
be brave!
7. What do you miss most from the rising unemployment levels,
6. What do you like most about your country? It's more what I there must be ways in which we
life in Spain? Life here is like it don't miss, like scraping the ice off can assist those who are in real fiwas for us in the UK when we we- the car window, however I do miss nancial difficulty. We would like
re young. The Spanish are really the lower cost of power tools in to see the non Spanish residents
family focused. Health and Safety the UK. Jenny would say cooking joining together with the Foreigis not yet king here, and it's great apples. She'd love to be able to ma- nerś Department in identifying
to see the children in our local ke a proper apple crumble with the best ways in which this can
school enjoying roller skating green cookers.
be done.
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BENALMADENA MONTHLY
November Agenda
Book Clubs
ARROYO DE LA MIEL
LIBRARY, Parque de la Paloma.
In Spanish: November 8, 9, 13 at
7pm.
In English: Read On, November 6
at 7pm.
In French: Cercle de Lecture, November 20 at 7pm.
In Finnish: Minna Canth November 29 at 7pm.
Spanish poetry group: November 2, 13 at 7pm.
BENALMADENA PUEBLO
LIBRARY (behind the Felipe Orlando Museum)
In Spanish: November 27 at 11am
& 6pm.
Kid's Stuff
STORY TIME, November 7, 14, 21
and 28 at 6.15pm at the Benalmádena Pueblo library ( behind the
Felipe Orlando museum). A fun
afternoon activity for very young
readers accompanied by an adult.
Everyone is welcome. Stories are
in Spanish but with lots of visual
and sound effects to keep the
young audience rivetted.
The Mas Madera
Film Club
Films are at 9pm at the Casa de la
Cultura in Arroyo de la Miel.
Films are shown with original
soundtrack and with Spanish subtitles if in a foreign language. Tickets: 3 euros.
November 8: El Mundo es Nuestro. Spain 2012. Comedy. Director
Alfonso Sánchez. Stars Alfonso
Sánchez, Alberto Lopez.
November 15: Flamenco, Flamen-
coast road opposite Benal Beach).
Entrance free.
José Luis Sánchez-Pajares Zambrano, Continues until November
19. Moroccan city and landscapes.
Eleonor Smith, November 22-December 17. Photos from India.
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Entrance free.
Alberto Moreno, November 9 at
8.30pm. Song and poetry recital.
Entrance free.
Eeva Havuleatu, November 15 at
7pm. Piano recital.
Lorca Autumn, November 30 at
8.30pm. Eugenio Arnao and Carmen Orte put voices and music to
Federico García Lorca's poetry.
Entrance free.
Excursions
Enjoy the smell and taste of
roast chestnuts at the Fiesta
de las Castañas on November
9 at 5pm at Paloma Park
co. Spain 2010. Musical documentary. Director Carlos Saura. Stars
José Mercé, Niña Pastori.
November 22: Los Nombres del
Amor. France 2010. Romantic comedy. Director Michel Leclerc.
Stars Jacques Gamblin, Sara Forestier.
November 29: Wilaya. Spain
2012. Drama. Director Pedro Pérez-Rosado. Stars Nadhira Mohamed, Memona Mohamed.
Exhibitions
BENALMADENA COSTA EXHIBITION CENTRE (On the
N340 coast road, opp. post office).
Open Tues-Sat, 10-2/5-7.30. Sun/
fiestas 11-1.30pm. Entrance free.
Closed Mon.
Goya, Chronicler of an Era,
Continues until December 16. Exhibition of 80 engravings by one of
Spain's greatest artists.
BIL-BIL CASTLE (on the N340
CASA DE LA CULTURA, Arroyo de la Miel.
Julian Parada Cebrian, November 2-16. Exhibition that centres
on the bullfighting world.
THE FELIPE ORLANDO PRECOLUMBIAN MUSEUM, Benalm´ádena Pueblo. Friday 5-7pm and
Saturday 10-1.30pm and 5-7pm.
Mexican Day of the Dead Altars, Continues until November
11. Contrary to its name this is a
colourful and fun fiesta celebrated
with altars laden down by objects
and foods once enjoyed by those
who have passed on.
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK.
November 25: Trip to Iznajar and
Rute in the province of Cordoba.
Info: Foreign Residents' Dept.
Bank Holidays
Fiestas & Fairs
All Saint's Day, Thursday November 1. Banks and most businesses will be closed.
Chestnut Fiesta, Friday November 9 at 5pm in the Paloma park.
General Strike, Wednesday, November 14. Unconfirmed at press
time but readers should be aware
that banks and businesses will be
closed if the strike goes ahead.
Music
Special events
CASA DE LA CULTURA, Arroyo de la Miel.
Flamenco Week presentation,
November 9 at 9pm. Entrance free.
Flamenco Guitar Duo, November 14 at 8.30pm. Andrés Cansino
and José Luis Lastre. Tickets: TBA.
Flamenco, November 16 at
8.30pm. Curro de María and La
Lupi. Tickets TBA.
ABAD Charity Concert, November 23 at 9pm. Popular Spanish
songs with Macarena Soto Jose
Luis Cabanillas and Inma Montes.
Spanish-English Language Exchange Programme. Organised
by the town hall's Foreign Residents' Department to improve conversational Spanish or English in
a friendly, fun and free way. Takes
place on Wednesdays, 10am12noon, at the senior citizens' centre in Benalmádena Pueblo or on
Tuesday and Thursday at the senior citizens' centre in the Plaza
de la Mezquita, Arroyo de la Miel.
To take part, pop along to a meeting and fill out an inscription
form or ask Joanna at the town
hall's Foreign Residents' Department (952 579 979).
BIL-BIL CASTLE (on the N340
coast road opposite Benal Beach).
Useful telephone numbers
Emergency numbers
All emergencies 112
(This is a central call base for any emergency)
Ambulance service 061
Fire brigade 952 563 429
Guardia Civil 062
Local Police 092
National Police 091
902 102 112 - Reports in case of theft or robbery (English spoken)
General telephone numbers
Endesa electricity company 900 248 248
Hospital Carlos Haya, Málaga 952 390 400
Hospital Clinico Universitario, Málaga 952 649 400
Hospital Materno Infantil, Málaga 952 300 400
Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella 951 976 669/951 976 670
GP appointments by phone to Salud Responde 902 505 060 or by
internet www.juntadeandalucia.es/servicioandaluzdesalud
Appointments for NIE applications at Torremolinos police station 952 378 437
Local telephone numbers
Foreigners' Department, Town Hall 952 579 979
Health Centre (Arroyo) 952 440 404/952 443 545
Health Centre (Pueblo) 952 449 313
Health Centre (Torrequebrada) 951 308 121
Hospital Chare 951 976 070
Hospital Xanit 952 443 119
Local police (Arroyo) 952 562 142
Local police (Pueblo) 952 579 853
Sports Centre (Arroyo) 95 257 7050
Sports Centre (Pueblo) 95 256 8085
Taxis 952 441 545
Tourist Office 952 442 494
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BENALMADENA MONTHLY
November 2011