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Málaga History, Culture and Landmarks

Málaga History, Culture and Landmarks

Malaga · Spain

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Málaga’s layered story, from the Alcazaba and Roman Theatre to castles, churches, museums and the waterfront. You will climb toward Gibralfaro for broad views, then continue through places that reveal the city’s artistic, religious and civic life. The route is worth taking for its changing settings, from historic fortifications and gardens to the harbor promenade and La Farola.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Málaga Alcazaba

    Málaga Alcazaba

    A taifa palace-fortress whose walls contain Málaga’s Roman, Andalusi, and modern history.

  2. Puerta Oscura Gardens

    Puerta Oscura Gardens

    A 1937 terraced garden made to frame the Alcazaba walls above Málaga’s old centre.

  3. Monument to Cánovas del Castillo

    Monument to Cánovas del Castillo

    A 1975 bronze-and-stone memorial whose inscription leaves Cánovas’s story open

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. La Malagueta Bullring

    La Malagueta Bullring

    A sixteen-sided bullring that became a heritage building and year-round cultural centre.

  6. The English Cemetery in Málaga

    The English Cemetery in Málaga

    Málaga’s first Protestant cemetery, where diplomacy, exile, and Victorian memory meet above the sea.

  7. Gibralfaro Viewpoint

    Gibralfaro Viewpoint

    A lookout above Málaga where a Phoenician lighthouse site became a besieged medieval castle.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.