Taxi Málaga Airport → Antequera

Prices by vehicle

Single journey, VAT included, on toll-free roads; the AP-46 tunnel at Las Pedrizas is optional and settled separately if you want it. A return is exactly twice this figure. Starting at the train station or the cruise port changes nothing in the price.

Drop-off

Antequera's historic centre has narrow one-way streets around the Alcazaba and the Real Colegiata, but cars can still get through to most doors, so the driver takes you to your hotel or flat. Around the Plaza del Portichuelo and the upper lanes near the castle we may stop a few metres short. For the parador or the hotels near the bullring there is a proper forecourt; for the dolmens visitor centre we drop you at its car park.

Inside the Terminal 3 arrivals hall at Málaga Airport, where the driver stands with a board showing your name.

What awaits you

• Dolmens of Menga, Viera and El Romeral
• The Peña de los Enamorados skyline
• El Torcal karst landscape and viewpoint

Up the A-45 and over Las Pedrizas

The road north out of Málaga is the A-45, and after the industrial estates and Casabermeja it climbs to the Las Pedrizas pass at around 780 metres. This is the free road; the AP-46 tunnel that bores under the pass shortens the climb by a few minutes but carries a toll, so we stay on the A-45 unless you ask us for the tunnel and pay it. Over the top the land flattens into the Antequera plain, and the Peña de los Enamorados, the rock that looks like a sleeping face, appears on the right. Exit at Antequera and you are in town 45 minutes from the airport, 55 km in all.

There is a second way in from the south-west by the A-357 and the Valle de Abdalajís road for the rare days when the Pedrizas pass is closed by fog or an accident; it is slower but pretty, winding under the cliffs of the Abdalajís mountains. In winter the driver checks the state of the pass before leaving.

Town of churches, dolmens and a rock with a face

Antequera is a town of thirty-odd churches and convents, most of them baroque, packed into a centre that rises to the Moorish Alcazaba and the Real Colegiata. The view from the Arco de los Gigantes across the roofs to the Peña is the postcard. On the eastern edge, ten minutes on foot from the centre, are the dolmens of Menga and Viera, two burial chambers of enormous stones five thousand years old and a UNESCO World Heritage site; El Romeral, the third, is a short drive away by the old sugar factory. Menga's entrance is aligned with the Peña de los Enamorados, which is the reason the rock matters as much as the stones.

El Torcal, the Lobo Park and a base for the region

Above the town the road climbs to El Torcal, a plateau of limestone eroded into towers and corridors, with marked circular walks from the visitor centre and ibex on the rocks. It is cold and windy up there even when Antequera is warm, and the car park fills on weekend mornings. Nearer the town is the Lobo Park wolf reserve and, to the west, the Fuente de Piedra lagoon with its flamingos in spring. Antequera also works as a base for Granada, Córdoba and Seville, all reachable by the A-92 and A-45, which is why the AVE stops at Antequera-Santa Ana station on the outskirts.

Areas we cover in Antequera

Local tips for your arrival

• Bring a windproof layer for El Torcal even in May; the plateau sits at 1,200 metres and the wind cuts.
• Menga and Viera are free to enter but have opening hours; check the Junta de Andalucía site before you go.
• Antequera's molletes, the soft bread rolls, are worth ordering at breakfast; the porra antequerana is the local cold soup.
• If you plan Granada or Seville later, the AVE from Antequera-Santa Ana is an option; the station is a few kilometres outside town.

Back to Málaga from Antequera

For the return, the driver collects you at the hotel or at the nearest accessible corner in the upper streets. The drive back is 45 minutes over the pass, so add the two hours the airport asks for, or two and a half in summer and for flights beyond Schengen, and you have your pick-up time: a 14:00 flight means leaving Antequera at about 11:15. Because the route is short, Antequera also makes an easy last night before an early flight. If you are continuing by AVE from Málaga-María Zambrano or joining a cruise at the port, the transfer costs the same and the driver drops you at the entrance.

From the train station or the cruise port

The fixed price to Antequera is the same from Málaga-María Zambrano train station and from the cruise port. Choose your origin in the form; the driver meets you at the platform exit or outside the cruise terminal.

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