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Jimena de la Frontera is a White-plastered outpost in a sea of green at just half an hour from the Sotogrande coast, and around an hour from Marbella.

Wedged in between coastal hillocks and the Marbella Golf Club, El Rosario is in many ways a classic Marbella villa suburb. Its freestanding villas flow down a gentle gradient from near the motorway in the north down to the coastal road that skirts the shore about a kilometre inland.

A mountain range whose name Sierra de las Nieves translates as ‘Snowy Mountains’ would not normally be associated with a place like Marbella, yet within sight of the town’s palm-fringed Mediterranean shores exists an untamed natural reserve that carries a white snow-cap in winter.

Whoever said that the Costa del Sol offers only sun, golf and nightlife will have to eat their words, for the city of Málaga is fast becoming a cultural centre in its own right.

In the midst of a town sometimes noted for its hedonism but criticised for its so-called lack of culture, the Ralli Museum is a permanent testament to the fact that this part of the world can hold its own on the cultural and artistic front.