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Fuengirola situated 20 minutes via motorway from Malaga’s international airport and has its own railway station linking it to the  airport and beyond.
Fuengirola is without doubt one the the most popular destinations on the Costa del Sol it has attracted thousands of foreign residents over the the years from all corners of the globe.
With it’s 7 km of sandy beaches and unrivaled entertainment Fuengirola is particularly popular with Spanish nationals, many of whom own summer apartments here. There are also a considerable percentage of British and other nationalities with the result being an impressively wide variety of entertainment and restaurant choice, ranging from the Andalusian traditional tapas and shellfish dishes to the British bangers and beans standard, together with Guinness on tap.
The advantage of staying here is that it is a compact seaside resort and town which has an excellent selection of supermarkets and competitively priced shops, as opposed to being restricted to the typical gift shop strip with its imported shells and t-shirts.
It’s municipal district is surprisingly quite small and is almost entirely built up with developments of apartment blocks, hotels and numerous urbanisation’s, all of which have sprung up around the original town centre.area extending almost eleven square kilometres along the coast between Benalmadena and Mijas.
The northeast boundary is the Arroyo del Jardín stream, and the south–eastern one is at the mouth of the Fuengirola River. In the extreme north the terrain is mountainous, speckled with housing developments. 
The area offers the best in tourism: beautiful landscape and everything for the tourist and residents alike from the best restaurants to the top hotels, and a great deal more besides. Add to it’s own pleasure port situated in the town centre with over 200 mooring points for the numerous pleasure boats that visit this area, there is also a fishing port which continues to have considerable importance to the local economy. this the big marina, the nightspots and the numerous bars, and one has a very privileged town.
The origin of the name is probably Spanish rather than Roman or Moorish having no connection whatsoever with the Roman Suel or Arabic Sohail and deriving from a type of ship that used to dock here.
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