| Puerto de la Duquesa is a purpose built resort | | | | gracefully until it looks just as much a part of the |
| town centred on the port. Built during the 1980's | | | | coast as its much older neighbour, Castillo. |
| the marina is typical of the Mediterranean coast, a | | | | East of the port is another wide beach, this time |
| wide thoroughfare fronting the quay with bars | | | | protected on the west side by the harbour |
| and restaurants on two sides, all with great views | | | | breakwater and carrying on east, beyond the |
| of the pleasure craft in the marina. A block stone | | | | town of Sabinillas almost to the horizon. Cubanga |
| breakwater complete with a lighthouse and a tall, | | | | Beach Club sits in the lee of the breakwater. Here |
| round control tower beneath which is the fuel | | | | you will find food of an International flavour until |
| bunkering pontoon, a boat storage area with a | | | | late at night. Entertainment such as the New |
| large chandlery and a small supermarket complete | | | | Orleans Jump Band is often provided at weekends |
| the port facilities. On the inland side white | | | | and in the evenings. Children can hire pedalloes |
| apartments loom over the port, their height | | | | whilst their parents hire the sunbeds. Both can |
| exaggerated by the hill on which they sit. A | | | | enjoy safe bathing in the shallow, sandy, bay |
| second level, less frequented by the tourists, has | | | | created by the harbour wall. |
| two squares, Plaza Chanquette and Plaza Fuente | | | | A stream, the boundary between the port and |
| each with its own bars and restaurants and the | | | | San Luis de Sabinillas, that becomes a raging |
| local Banco de Andalucia. A third, even less | | | | torrent after rain in the hills, is now crossed by a |
| frequented level has slightly more exclusive | | | | wooden footbridge making it possible to walk |
| restaurants; both with fine views over the marina | | | | between the two places without venturing on to |
| and a bar. For those who enjoy evening | | | | the main road. Older residents will remember the |
| entertainment the local bars provide karaoke, | | | | slog in the summer heat through deep sand |
| quizzes, sports television and live music on pretty | | | | around the end of a foul smelling lagoon to |
| much every day of the week and many stay | | | | achieve the same purpose just a few years ago. |
| open until the early hours. Behind the port, on the | | | | The same trip in winter, although not as olfactorily |
| inland side of the modern A7 dual carriageway, | | | | offensive, was only possible if the local youths |
| reached by an underpass, is the Duquesa Golf | | | | had improvised a bedspring, breezeblock bridge |
| Hotel and golf course. | | | | across the torrent. As with so many aspects of |
| Although a relatively modern creation Puerto de la | | | | living in Spain, everything comes eventually to he |
| Duquesa was built in a less severe style than | | | | who waits. |
| modern edifices and has managed to weather | | | | |