Nerja Once

It is not uncommon in the tourist literature the allusion to these incredible somersaults of the “fishing village ” to a “touristic center”, from a dateless past , eternal, timeless and permanently anchored in a stillness which only wakes up to the click of cameras, this obsessive fantasy mirage responds to the tourist ilusion of  “discovery” of the “unknown” place , “hidden” , “virgin beaches ” etc… and denotes the persistence of a topical colonial dream: paradise living ignorant of their own condition to be discovered by a subject able to understand it in its true dimension, that is, a subject culturally superior, always belonging to the same world as understood that the object in question, only set in a stadium of more advanced evolution – also as a single type, a unique mode of development. The emphasis in this décalage seeks to highlight the temporal contrast between two times, between two points in history, a history unique itinerary, in which only differences would be recognized chronological grade. One place is the product of an imagination that not only appeals to the memory, but entails a good deal of fable. And that, in its tourist vocation, becomes the expression of a collective remembrance composed of multiple links between the deep past and a quick, fleeting present, a place that does not always know where it comes from and what happens around him and below it.