The Spanish national health service is a wonderful resource for locals and expats alike, with modern facilities such as online booking and access to medical records, as well as a downloadable app that keeps all aspects of a patient’s health-care in one easily-accessible place. For emergencies and outpatient treatment, the walk-in […]
San Pedro Alcántara, not having a natural harbour like most places along the Costa del Sol, instead developed an industry based upon sugar cane that provided the small community with jobs and a livelihood in the middle of the 1800s. Not much happened in San Pedro for years thereafter as it […]
Opción Sampedreña has commented about the current status of the new pedestrian footbridge located on the A-397 Ronda road. This footbridge joins San Pedro Alcántara with the Industrial Estate, the Three Gardens Park and El Salto del Agua, and allows much needed, and long overdue safe crossing to pedestrians. The vice […]
The local government board today approved licences for reform, expansion and execution for work totaling 60 million euros. This was announced by a spokesman of the government team, Felix Romero, who said that “this confirms that Marbella is still focused on investment.” In particular, an extension licence for a health centre […]
Like all beaches on the Costa del Sol, in winter the San Pedro beach suffers from varying weather conditions that can prove to be devastating for the town’s seaside areas. The town council’s beach clean-up delegation is working on a great idea to improve the beaches along the entire municipality, and […]
From 9th until 18th of April, all residents of San Pedro who are registered and over 18 (empadronados) are called to vote on the future pedestrianisation of one of the main commercial arteries into the town: Avda. Marqués del Duero. In order to participate in the survey, you can vote online, but it […]
Age Concern España have been providing much needed support and promoting the well-being of the over 50s in Spain since 1994. They initially started in the Balearic Islands on Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, before establishing branches on mainland Spain in the late 90’s from the Costa Blanca to the Costa del […]
The maintenance and use of the Three Gardens Park will be managed by the City Council A study will be conducted to get the park to the status that users have been demanding for some time. The mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, and the delegate of the Junta de Andalucía in […]
San Pedro de Alcantara beaches took another huge step forward in ensuring the safety of its beach dwellers with a brand new orange rescue point and SOS lifesaving aquatic station. Marbella town hall has now installed orange rescue points on three beaches within the municipality, with San Pedro being one of […]
The deputy mayor of San Pedro Alcántara, Rafael Piña, presented the work for the remodeling of the Plaza de la Iglesia at the top of the pedestrianised zone in San Pedro. It was indicated during this presentation that the project “is an ambitious action, that will make the square more accessible, […]