Sabinillas
 

Not the prettiest of places but the beach bars do provide excellent food at reasonable prices. You will find a decent size supermarket here, banks, mobile phone shops, spanish hardware stores. The present day fishing village is a new settlement having been developed in the last hundred years. It was very typical of a Spanish fishing community which did not pay much importance to the aesthetics of architecture or anything else for that matter. Like most places on the Costa del Sol it has seen rapid growth over the last decade. Anybody visiting now who had been away would hardly recognize the village.

Since the construction of a large block called Punta Almina in the 1980s it has also become a popular place for expats working on the coast and in Gibraltar. The two working communities live happily side by side.

The recent main developments are the improvements to Avenida Manilva, the construction of the seafront promenade and the underpass for the traffic on the coast road A7 (N340)

Pavement cafes and bars have flourished along with the opening of new banks and Real Estate offices. The village has a happy working atmosphere for those who want a touch of what is probably the only real Spain left on the western Costa del Sol.

One thing has not changed and that is the reputation of the seafood bars and restaurants on the seafront and one of the quieter most expansive beaches in the area.

In 1990 there was a little car boot sale in the car park of the Moorhouse Pub in Sabinillas. For several years it was only supported by a few expats. Then it caught the attention of a wider group of people looking for a bargain. The Sunday morning Sabinillas rastro is one of the biggest on the coast and when the bullfighter Javier Conde dropped in for a bargain it only strengthened its reputation. Since its humble beginnings it has needed to change locations three times to accommodate its popularity.