Los Boliches
You can get to Los Boliches by bus or commuter train from Fuengirola, but if you like to walk, you can walk along the promenade to the east. About 6 kilometers from Fuengirola. Here you will find alleys with restaurants and small shops along the “bus street” and by the square. Perhaps also Fuengirola’s finest playa. There is a fantastic small market hall right by the station that is worth a visit. A good landmark is the church square (Plaza del Carmen).
Los Pacos
Los Pacos is quite large and stretches up into the mountains where large housing complexes have been built. On Avenida de Los Pacos and down by the square there are all kinds of shops and services such as a veterinary clinic, dentist, real estate agencies, Finnish collection club, restaurants, event companies as well as a fairly large grocery store and several bakeries. There are also playgrounds for children and several dog parks.
Walking distance from Los Pacos to Playa and Los Boliches is 10–15 minutes. If you like walking you can walk to the old town of Fuengirola or take a bus that runs quite often.
For some reason, there are many Finns living in Los Pacos where there is a Finnish school, Finnish church and Finnish medical clinic. Funnily enough, the road up to Los Pacos is called Avenida De Finlandia and the gathering place at the square is called Plaza Suomi. The majority of the population is of course Spanish and there are also several Spanish schools in Los Pacos. Around the square there are several restaurants, fruit shop, bakeries, hardware store, pharmacy and a health center and more.
Public transport
From Fuengirola to Los Pacos, take bus 1 and get off at Avd. Las Gaviotas (Roundabout 600) in Los Boliches. If you are lucky, you can change to bus 4 which goes up to Los Pacos. If the bus does not fit, it is only a 10-minute walk to Los Pacos from Los Gaviotas. If you want to go to Fuengirola, you should walk down to Los Gaviotas and take bus 1 from there.
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There are three parallel streets stretching from one end of the town to the other. There is the playa (Maritimo Rey de Espana) which is 10 kilometers’ long, the bus street (Av. Ramon y Cajal) which runs parallel to the playa and goes past the church square in Fuengirola. The bus square is also located here. The third parallel street is the railway street (Jesus Santos Rein) where the commuter train to and from the airport runs and the train station is located. These three streets are good landmarks as well as the church square (Pl. de la Constitución)
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