Zinnia

Daily life here is pedestrian in the literal sense. A pharmacy sits 292 m from the door, the nearest supermarket 373 m and a Mercadona under a kilometre. Cafés and restaurants begin at around 400 m, which in practice means coffee before the school run and dinner without moving the car. HC Marbella International Hospital is 1.3 km away, a detail that matters to anyone relocating with children or planning to settle permanently.

Golf becomes routine rather than an outing. Magna Marbella is 2.2 km from the building, Real Club de Golf Las Brisas 2.5 km and El Higueral roughly seven minutes by road. Padel courts at Hacienda del Sol are eight minutes away, those at Puente Romano eleven. The marina at Puerto Banús lies 2.9 km along the coast for the evenings that call for noise and an audience, while San Pedro's palm-lined boulevard, weekly market and old town offer the quieter alternative on any given Tuesday.

The climate does much of the work. Average highs of 21.8°C against lows of 15.3°C across the year keep the rooftop solarium in use well past summer and terraces end up functioning as the main living room for most of the calendar. Málaga airport is around 49 km east along the coast.