Costa del Sol increase in popularity through the decade. This trend coincided with rapid industrial growth in Málaga and the decline of dependence on the agricultural sector, although growth in the general economy of Spain slowed almost to a standstill after 1973. As rapid development proceeded on the Costa del Sol, and the influx of expatriate retirees from northern European countries, notably Great Britain, increased during the late 1970s and 1980s, it has since then sometimes been referred to in the press of the United Kingdom as the "Costa del Crime", because British criminals would escape justice at home by moving there to
Fondo del Sol Fondo del Sol Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center, founded in 1973, was a non-profit visual arts center in Washington, D.C. It was the second oldest Latino multicultural museum in the United States. The Center, whose focus in the art and cultural heritage of the people of the Americas, is D.C.'s only multilingual museum and offers materials in both English, French, Russian and Spanish. Fondo del Sol was a member of the Dupont-Kalorama Museums Consortium. The museum is artist run and one of its annual highlights is the "June Walk Week", a three-day audio-visual celebration of Hispanic art and culture.