Mijas is three places at once — the white village on the mountain, the golf valleys of Mijas Golf and La Sierrezuela, and the working town of Las Lagunas next to Fuengirola. It is where much of the coast's new building is happening, so the modern apartment market is deep here, for rent as much as for sale.

The hillside municipality behind the coast: Mijas Pueblo above, Mijas Golf and Las Lagunas below, and new developments across the slopes between.