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Colomares Castle, a monument you visit from the outsideArchitecture

Colomares Castle, a monument you visit from the outside

Tickets cost 3.50 euros and are sold only at the gate, on a site that shuts every Monday and runs four different seasonal timetables. Children and pensioners pay 2.50 euros, and the monument is visited from the outside only, because a doctor built it with two bricklayers from 1987.

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La Malagueta Bullring, What the 16-Euro Ticket IncludesArchitecture

La Malagueta Bullring, What the 16-Euro Ticket Includes

A visit here means an empty ring, the passage behind the barrier and six themed rooms with an audio guide, at 16 euros general, 13 reduced and 7 for children aged 5 to 12. The building is listed and dates from 1876, and events held inside are a separate ticket, sold by whoever promotes them.

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Malaga Urban Planning, and Why Plots Sit EmptyArchitecture

Malaga Urban Planning, and Why Plots Sit Empty

A central plot now has a 75-year concession and a builder, while a waterfront tower has waited ten years for a signature from Madrid. Heritage protection, archaeology, land ownership and court challenges each run on separate tracks, and the general plan itself needs two signatures.

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How the port of Málaga works, and where it stopsArchitecture

How the port of Málaga works, and where it stops

The waterfront you walk is two quays out of a 1,190,723 square metre estate, Muelle Uno and the Palmeral de las Sorpresas, open to the public since 2011. Everything beyond them is restricted under the ISPS security code, and the port answers to Puertos del Estado, not to the city council.

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Can you drink Málaga tap water, and where it comes fromArchitecture

Can you drink Málaga tap water, and where it comes from

Emasa publishes a dated lab result, and in the sample of 5 August 2026 E. coli and coliforms both came back at zero, hardness read 104 mg/L against a 500 ceiling and free chlorine 0.82 against a range of 0.2 to 1.0. El Atabal strips the salt out of river water for some 600,000 people.

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The English Cemetery in Málaga, and the Law Behind ItArchitecture

The English Cemetery in Málaga, and the Law Behind It

Around three hundred British residents lived here by 1877 and not one of them could be buried in consecrated ground, which is why this place exists. William Mark was appointed consul in 1824 and the plot was marked out in 1829, and a Royal Order of Ferdinand VII authorised it on 11 April 1830.

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Málaga Industrial Heritage and the Listed Concrete ChimneyArchitecture

Málaga Industrial Heritage and the Listed Concrete Chimney

The chimney of the La Misericordia power station has been a listed Monument since a 2005 decree, stands 65.10 metres tall and went up between 1957 and 1960. The building beside it held no protection at all until December 2025, and the tallest of all, 106 metres on a beach, is already gone.

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Roman Theatres in Malaga, and Only One Lets You InArchitecture

Roman Theatres in Malaga, and Only One Lets You In

Three Roman theatres, all owned by the Junta de Andalucía, and only one you can walk into: the city one, free from Tuesday to Sunday on Calle Alcazabilla. Acinipo, near Ronda, is free too but lost its access road to a landslide, and publishes its calendar month by month, while Singilia Barba has no visiting arrangement at all.

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Atarazanas Market in Malaga, and Which Door to UseArchitecture

Atarazanas Market in Malaga, and Which Door to Use

A 14th-century shipyard gate, an iron hall Joaquín de Rucoba built around it between 1876 and 1879, and a trading window set by municipal ordinance rather than by the market. Stalls must open 8:30 to 14:30 and may stretch to 8:00-15:00, it holds 260 stalls and has been a listed monument since 1979.

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The Alcazaba of Málaga, Read From the Bottom UpArchitecture

The Alcazaba of Málaga, Read From the Bottom Up

Standard admission is 7 euros, or 10 euros on a combined ticket with Gibralfaro Castle further up the same hill, and both go free on Sunday afternoons. The fortress was built in the eleventh century directly above the Roman theatre, reusing its columns and capitals in its own arches.

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Gibralfaro Castle in Malaga, a Wall-Walk With a MuseumArchitecture

Gibralfaro Castle in Malaga, a Wall-Walk With a Museum

Admission is 7 euros on its own or 10 euros combined with the Alcazaba, and both go free every Sunday from 2pm. The castle sits on a 132-metre hill as the upper defensive level of one fortified system, and the visit is the wall itself, with a well dug 40 metres into rock and EMT line 35 climbing to the door.

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Málaga Cathedral, the Missing Tower and the Missing RoofArchitecture

Málaga Cathedral, the Missing Tower and the Missing Roof

The south tower was never finished, which is why the city calls it La Manquita, and neither was the roof. Begun in 1528, the north tower reaches 84 metres. Admission runs 10 euros with the audio guide, but the nave opens free every morning from 8:30 to 9:00, before the ticket desk starts.

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Málaga Roman Theatre, Free Entry and Closed on MondaysArchitecture

Málaga Roman Theatre, Free Entry and Closed on Mondays

Two thousand years stacked along 200 metres of Calle Alcazabilla, with a theatre, a Moorish palace and a hilltop castle one above another. The theatre costs nothing, and because the regional government runs it, it closes on Mondays when the paid fortresses above it do not, with last entry half an hour before closing.

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