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Comes ( 902 19 92 08, 956 68 40 38; Calle Batalla del Salado 13) runs six or more
daily buses to Cádiz (€8.45, 1¾ hours), Algeciras (€2, 30 minutes) and La Línea de
la Concepción (€3.83, 45 minutes), four to Seville (€17.05, three hours), two each
to Jerez de la Frontera (€8.95, 2½ hours) and Málaga (€12.75, two hours) and one
to Zahara de los Atunes (€3.37, 40 minutes).
Baelo Claudia
In the tiny village of Bolonia hidden on a beautiful bay about 20km up the coast
from Tarifa, you'll find the ruins of the most complete Roman town yet uncovered in
Spain, Baelo Claudia ( 956 10 67 97; adult/EU citizen €1.50/free; 10am-8pm
Tue-Sat, 10am-2pm Sun & holidays) . The site - which affords fine views across the
water to Africa - includes a theatre where plays are still sometimes staged, a mar-
ket, forum, temples, and workshops that turned out the products that made Baelo
Claudia famous in the Roman world: salted fish and garum, a prized condiment
made from fish entrails. There's a good recently opened museum, too.
Baelo Claudia's zenith was in the first century AD during the reign of Emperor
Claudius (AD 41-54).
A hilly 7km side road to Bolonia heads west off of the N340, 15km from Tarifa. A
couple of local buses run daily from Tarifa to Bolonia in July and August only.
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Málaga
This exuberant and very Spanish port city, set against the sparkling Mediterranean,
is both historic and pulsing with modern life. Malaga seems to be focusing on the
future, though with plenty to boast about from the past. The centre presents the vis-
itor with narrow old streets and wide, leafy, boulevards, beautiful gardens and im-
pressive monuments, fashionable shops and a burgeoning cultural life.