Nerja

Nerja is a municipality at the Costa del Sol inside the province of Málaga in the independent network of Andalusia in southern Spain. It belongs to the comarca of La Axarquia. It is at the usa's southern Mediterranean coast, approximately 50 km east of Malaga. Under Muslim rule, its name became Narixa, because of this "plentiful supply" and is the origin of the present day call. Nerja has an extended records, evidenced through the primitive paintings located in its famous Nerja caves, determined in 1959.

These caves at the moment are believed to be simply one entrance to a connected series of sinkholes stretching many miles into the mountains among Nerja and Granada, and which may also yet prove to be one of the most considerable unexplored systems in Europe. Visitors to the caves can be able to view the stays of one of the historic population of Nerja.

The Romans built right here three settlements, inclusive of Detunda, of which now huge remains may be seen. The region was later taken over by way of the Arabs in the early 8th century. Under the Moors, the city was known as Narixa, which means that "considerable spring", from which the present call derives ts agricultural and silk products are said by means of whom to had been famed all through the Muslim world and in the markets of Damascus as early as the tenth century.