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Prost! A taste of Germany in Torrox
RESCUE EFFORT: Firefighters attend the scene with a stretcher.
Floating corpse found by Tom Woods THE lifeless body of a woman was found on Tuesday, floating in the bay of Herradura, Almuñecar, in an advanced state of decomposition. An alarm was raised when a boat operator saw the corpse near the beach, and notified the council. Mayor Juan Jose Ruiz Joya alerted the Local Police, the maritime service and firefighters for the rescue of t h e b o d y, b u t th e w oman h a d a l r e a d y b e e n dead for some time. The i d e n t i t y o f th e woman at the time of writing is unknown, but she was initially taken to the Marina del Este before being transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine. Mayor Ruiz Joya praised the efforts of all those involved i n t h e sp e e d y re -
trieval and processing of the corpse. It is the second body that has been discovered floating in the waters off the coast of Granada in less than a week, after another a p p e a re d o n th e b e a c h of Castell de Ferro, in Gualchos.
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Credit: Ayuntamiento de Torrox
20 - 26 September 2018
Credit: Ayuntamiento de Almuñecar
ISSUE NO. 1733
Newspaper in Spain 2017 & 2018
SUCCESS: 50,000 people attended the festival. A TASTE of Germany came to Torrox when the town celebrated the Oktoberfest. The festival may have its heartland in the be e r ha lls a nd ga rde ns of Bavaria, but the southern Spanish setting is becoming increasingly popular with 50,000 people attending this year. That is not bad for a town with a population of just around 16,000 people - although possibly numbers were swollen by attendees from its German twin town of Kirkel.
Councillor for Tourism Sandra Extremera said that good organisation made it the brewery festival ‘par excellence’ in the province. She added that the town was now firmly ‘the little Germany of southern Europe.’ Not only does it have a large German community, but events like the O ktobe rfe s t at t r act m any of t hei r countrymen to holiday in the area. This was the third year that the festival has been held in Avenida Esperanto in the heart of the ‘German a re a ’ of the town, and t he second
since the event was extended to four days, two factors that have made the festival a ‘great success.’ Ext r em ena added t hat “beer of Bavarian origin has been the absolute protagonist of the event along with t he cl assi c sausages i n t he st yl e ‘bratwurst,’ although the local craft produce has also had a great impact among the audience.” She went on to say that people of all ages and backgrounds had flocked to Torrox for the event, giving the town a higher profile.