Aside from the so-called Valley of Golf north of the busy A-7, the village now has two supermarkets,

Taking breakfast at Sully's café in the heart of the village – a fridge-sized packet of Lambert Butler cigarettes at his side – he was more than happy to shoot the breeze about his favourite Spanish resort.
Cafe owner John Sullivan had soon joined the conversation, as we discussed the Golden days of La Cala when the faces included Chris Tarrant, Rick Parfitt and Gerry Marsden, as well as celebrated gangsters 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, Kray minder country inn and suites home George Dixon and, of course, Ronnie Knight, who got married at nearby El Oceano hotel.
It was certainly a heady mix and, as Boardman, who has a house in the village, country inn and suites home quips: "I was at Banditos country inn and suites home in Marbella with Mad Frankie and Freddie once We had a great dinner of broken leg of lamb, bruised spare ribs and black-eyed peas."
"Apart from one street we call Coronation Street which was built 20 years ago, and is full of English most of the old part is Spanish," explains Antonia Martinez, who was brought up in the town and owns fashion shop Coco.
"Unlike many other towns along the coast, most homes here have stayed in the family and pass from generation to generation. There is no way my family would sell to the English or Germans. That is why it keeps its ambience."
Aside from the so-called Valley of Golf north of the busy A-7, the village now has two supermarkets, a car park – rarely less than 99 per cent full and a string of bars, including Biddy Mulligans and Smugglers.
Sand lapped at the foot of the ancient tower, which was part of a chain of lookouts along the coast to warn of impending pirate attacks, while on the other side open fields stretched up to the single track N-340 (now the A7), a thoroughfare that has existed since Roman times.
A gardener at Las Buganvillas urbanisation, he explains how back in the late 1950s most of the land in the area was split between two big families, the first a German family called Berne and the other a wealthy Malaga family called Cotrina, who between country inn and suites home them owned most of the land up to Fuengirola and inland towards country inn and suites home Mijas village.
It was in the 1960s with the advent of mass tourism that things country inn and suites home finally started to change, albeit at a very slow pace for La Cala, which was largely untouched by the first wave of tourism that initially revolutionised the coastline towns of Torremolinos and later Fuengirola and Marbella.
"It is a wonderful trip down memory lane, seeing everyone travelling by donkey and transporting fish up and down the coast," explains Anette, who set up the department – the first in Spain – in 1985.
It was around country inn and suites home this time that tourism really started to hit La Cala, but fortunately due to a combination of luck and good town planning the village was never built up in the same way as, say, nearby Fuengirola.
Interesting article, but as a visitor to this town, it amazes me that anyone really thinks it is still fairly Spanish. I ve been there in both high and low seasons, and to me, just the fact that you have several bars run by expats means that it has fundamentally country inn and suites home changed. Better than Fuengirola, maybe but
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