Another concrete Costa?
07Jan08
The latest Holiday Which? arrives, with an article about the Costa de la Luz, billed as just the thing if you’re looking for “a southern Spanish break without the Costa high-rise clutter”.
That clutter, a legacy of the 1960s and ’70s, is not of course the sort of thing developers could get away with in Spain these days. Think not? The front page of El País this morning has a story headlined “El ladrillo invade también Galicia” – Concrete pours into Galicia too. The northern coast, the most pristine in the country, is also the most threatened, thanks to plans for 680,000 new homes.
Great series in El Pais about construction around the coast. The Costa de la Luz certainly has its ‘clutter’ too - it’s just newer and not as highrise as the Costa Blanca or Costa del Sol. Did you see that Almudena Grandes is now writing a column every Monday in El Pais btw? First one yesterday was really weak, but presumably she’ll settle into it after a few weeks. Happy New Year!
Annie