Ground-floor apartments come into their own in the big garden urbanizaciones of Mijas Costa — Calahonda above all, with Riviera del Sol close behind — where they are often the only homes with a private terrace garden and a few steps to the communal pool. They are what families with young children and buyers finished with stairs settle on once they have carried the shopping up four flights in August. We note light and orientation plainly, because a north-facing garden flat under Calahonda's mature pines is genuinely shaded for much of the day.
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