Malaga Film Festival

On our last full day in Spain we visited Malaga. They were in the midst of the Malaga Cine Festival April 17 - 25. The streets were lined with Red Carpets and Paparazzi, accompanied by the "beautiful, young people" of Spain.

This year the Malaga Spanish Film Festival takes place between 17 and 25 April. Malaga born actor and director Antonio Banderas is to be the star of the opening night on April 17th. The Festival is an annual national showcase for features films, documentaries, shorts and videos. They are divided into sections: the Official Feature Films , Zonazine, Short Films, Latin American Territory and Documentaries and compete for awards including, the Malaga Prize, Retrospective, Ricardo Franco Prize, The Gold Film and Eloy Church Prize.

After "walking the red carpet", we headed to old town to see the Cathedral Malaga. A much more impressive structure than Santa Maria Seville, we took a full tour and took many pictures.

At 4:05 PM, we entered the Estacion at Malaga to catch the Renfe AVE fast train to Madrid. The trains in Spain have been much improved over the years. They are very clean, fast with highly personal professional service.

We arrived in Madrid at 6:40 PM -- right on time and headed to our last night in Madrid. We hustled over to the Plaza Mayor and had a delightful "tapas" dinner al fresco in the open air center of the Plaza.