End of Spain’s beach bars
April 16th, 2009 | by admin |The traditional beach bars (chiringuitos) are facing closure this summer if the plans of the environment ministry go ahead. “We have been here on the sand ever since tourism reached Malaga in the 1950s,” Servando Cidoncha, who runs a bar on the Costa del Sol beach at Guadalmar, told the ABC newspaper. “If they take us inland we will stop being a chiringuito and become just another restaurant. The English and Germans come to us attracted by a sense of tradition. Moving us would destroy that.” Read in The Guardian
