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 Car Hire & Driving in Torremolinos, SpainWelcome to Torremolinos Car Hire, Spain.Torremolinos Car HireTorremolinos has thankfully long outgrown its Monty Python spam and chips image and, over recent years Torremolinos has evolved as an attractive and appealing resort noted for its clean sandy beaches, wide choice of hotels and restaurants and unparalleled variety of entertainment, activities and nightlife available, which you can easily explore in your hire car while in Torremolinos. Torremolinos is located 7km west of Malaga airport in your hire car and was the first Costa del Sol resort to be developed back in the early sixties when Torremolinos was little more than a sleepy village. Still today Torremolinos reflects its heritage with several of the original fresh fish bars located right in the shopping center, which you can visit in your hire car, incongruously flanked by exclusive boutiques and gift shops. In general, however, the wave of tourists who descended on Torremolinos in the fifties and sixties changed the face of Torremolinos for ever, as you will witness today in your hire car. Over the years, Torremolinos has evolved as an attractive and appealing resort for you to investigate in your hire car, noted for its clean sandy beaches, wide choice of hotels and restaurants and unparalleled variety of entertainment, activities and nightlife available for you to experience while in Torremolinos in your hire car. At the height of summer, Torremolinos has a great appeal for the younger set, with a reputation for its hectic nightlife. Out of season, however, Torremolinos takes on a different character, which you can experience in your hire car. Now practically a suburb of Malaga, the atmosphere in Torremolinos is much more Spanish, especially at weekends, with an air of friendliness and welcome that you will experience in your hire car. Packed with tantalizing shops for you to explore in your hire car, thronging with people of every nationality and located right at the heart of Torremolinos is the pedestrian only Calle San Miguel, the main artery of the town, which you can only really enjoy without your hire car. This smartly paved pedestrianised street is lined with boutiques and shops with a great variety of goods on offer, attracting a constant flow of people. The Cuesta del Tajo, at the end of San Miguel in Torremolinos, leads down a steep flight of steps through the old fishing district of El Bajondillo. This is a popular, picturesque area lined with restaurants and market-style kiosks, selling souvenirs for you to take home with you to remind you of Torremolinos. Down at the bottom is the beach of El Bajondillo, which is worth investigating in your hire car while in Torremolinos. The beach area shows another side of Torremolinos for you to see in your hire car. With massive hotels, bars and restaurants, this area of Torremolinos is packed during the summer, as you will find in your hire car. To the left, the Playa de Bajondillo gives way to the beaches of Playamar and Los Alamos in Torremolinos, which are also worth visiting in your hire car. To the right, beyond the Castillo de Santa Clara, which you can visit in your hire car while in Torremolinos, lie the beach areas of La Carihuela and Montemar, also worth exploring in your hire car. The seafront promenade in Torremolinos, Paseo Maritimo, extends east to Playamar and west to La Carihuela in your hire car, now continuing as far as Benalmádena Marina. Leaving your hire car the walk to La Carihuela offers pleasant sea views and some dramatic rock formations, before entering the old fishing village of La Carihuela which is a delightful area of picturesque simple houses and bougainvillea clad patios where old men play dominoes and drink anis; definitely worth investigating in your hire car while in Torremolinos. Many of the original cottages still exist and not all have been turned into bars or shops, as you will be able to witness in your hire car. Some have stood still in time. The best way to explore this area is to leave your Torremolinos hire car and wander around early in the morning before the tourists wake up to see a different world. This is the area of Torremolinos also known for its excellent seafood restaurants and chiringuitos (beach bars), which are worth stopping off at for a bite while touring Torremolinos in your hire car. The area of El Calvario is less known to the average tourist. Located to the north of the main road in your hire car, which cuts through Torremolinos, it offers a quieter area of small streets of bars, with an appeal to those who prefer to be away from the bustle of the center of Torremolinos. While some may feel that Torremolinos has an abundance of concrete high-rises, this is offset by the recent emergence of numerous public gardens, which you can visit in your hire car while in Torremolinos. More than one thousand species of trees have been planted in Torremolinos, ranging from the exotic magnolia and banana tree to vibrantly colourful beds of roses and azaleas. On the outskirts of Torremolinos in your hire car you will find three forests with freshwater springs and barbecue facilities and highly recommended for those seeking a little reprieve from the bucket and spade scenario on the coast of Torremolinos. At the same time, if it's family fun you want in your hire car, Torremolinos is hard to beat with seasonal sea sports including windsurfing, paragliding, water skiing and pedal boats. If this sounds all just too energetic however, then of course there is the sun lounger alternative or plenty of places where you can while away the hours in your Torremolinos hire car in picturesque surroundings, sipping a glass of sangria and simply watching the world go by. Of course with a hire car you can also venture further a field of Torremolinos. Malaga is just a short drive in your hire car to the north east of Torremolinos and Marbella is just a short drive in your hire car to the south west of Torremolinos, both along the coast with wonderful views from your hire car. For an idea of what you might expect to find on a trip to either Malaga or Marbella from Torremolinos in your hire car, visit our Malaga Car Hire or Marbella Car Hire links. About 50km (32 miles) north of Torremolinos in your hire car and best reached on the N-331 from Malaga, Antequera is an attractive town with innumerable churches and convents worth visiting in your hire car on a trip from Torremolinos. One place that you should seek out in your hire car is the Islamic Castillo, near the 16th century Iglesia de Santa Maria Mayor, which has fine view for your to take in from your hire car on a trip from Torremolinos. Spain Car HireSpain. To the ancient Greeks, Spain was the land where Hercules’ golden apples grew; to the Arabs, Spain was the ground floor of heaven; to writers such as George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway, Spain was an area where history skittered between heroic feats and tragedy, and bullfighters flirted with death in work of an afternoon. Few other places so dramatically stimulate the imagination as Spain, as you will be able to discover in your hire car. Despite the steady traffic from Spain’s coastal resorts, Spain has remained in the eyes of outsiders a mysterious, half-mythical country. Spain’s long stretches of isolation from the rest of Europe began with Spain’s peninsular geography and were underscored by history. 700 years of Moorish occupation, were followed by a powerful empire that colonised the New World, the failure of which led via the Spanish Civil War 1936-9 to the oppressive regime of General Franco, all of which have left their mark of Spain, as you will be able to discover while touring in your hire car. However years of isolations for Spain has made it far from homogeneous. Spain embraces four languages and around seven dialects, and climate ranges go from the Subtropical south, sweet with its mangos ,and hibiscus, to the emerald north, with its gorse and heather and plunging fjords, providing you with so much choice of country side to investigate while touring Spain in your hire car. During your trip to Spain you will find some constants while in your hire car. One is light, the glorious sunshine that northern Europeans flock to bask in; but don’t make a mistake of just lying by the pool while, with so much to see and do, take advantage of the glorious light to tour the sights in your hire car. The other constant is a tremendous vitality, which you can observe in cafes and strolling Sunday evening crowds, in haughty urbanites and exuberant fiesta crowds while touring Spain in your hire car. Spain covers an area of 194,885 square miles (504,880sq km) with its capital, Madrid, situated almost in the centre. The Kingdom of Spain is a constitutional monarchy under King Juan Carlos I of the House of Bourbon, which has been on the Spanish throne since the death of Franco in 1975. Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions, each with its own legislature. Spain is a member of the European Union, accepting the euro as its currency in 2002; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Foreign motorists must have either an international driving licence from their country of origin and this also applies when using a hire car, so make sure your driving licence is packed before you leave for Spain. Spain has about 195,850 miles (317,000km) of highway for you to explore in your hire car; however only a few thousand kilometres of them are fast, convenient and relatively safe motorways. There are toll fees payable if using the modern motorways in your hire car while, which have rest areas, bars and service stations, and roadside telephones are also places at convenient intervals, to enable you to call for assistance in the case of emergency or breakdown in your hire car. The speed limits while driving in your hire car are 120kph (75mph) on motorways, 100kph (60mph) on all other roads and 60kph (35mph) when driving through cities and towns. In Spain seatbelts must be worn by the driver and all passengers in your hire car, and your hire car should be quipped with a spare set of head and rear-light bulbs or you could face a penalty fine. To hire ca car you have to be at least 19 years of age with either an international licence or a valid licence from your own country. With so much varied countryside around Spain it’s recommended to have a hire car to really be able to explore Spain’s full potential without having to worry about public transport. A hire car will also enable you to investigate the more remote areas of Spain where public transport may not be readily available. The Andalusian Heartland or Andalusia region Car HireThere is so much more to discover in the southern most region of The Andalusian Hartland than the Costa del Sol, as you will find in your hire car, and the three main draws of Seville, Cordoba and Granada are an added attraction to the Andalusia region of Spain when travelling in your hire car.
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