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Layers of Málaga Audio Guide: History, Port, and Power

A Self-Guided Walk Through Málaga’s Living History
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1 hr 30 min
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Audio Guide Description
Málaga rewards travelers who slow down and look closely. Beneath its lively streets lies a city shaped by centuries of trade, conquest, faith, and cultural exchange.

This self-guided walking tour through Málaga, created by Context Travel expert and licensed guide Manu Barba, approaches the city not as a collection of isolated landmarks, but as one built in layers. As you move through the historic center, you’ll explore how Málaga evolved from a Phoenician port into an Islamic shipbuilding hub, a Renaissance city, and a modern cultural destination.

Rather than rushing from monument to monument, you’ll learn how architecture, urban planning, and public spaces reveal deeper stories about power, belief, and commerce. Markets emerge from former shipyards. Cathedrals rise where mosques once stood. Ancient theaters quietly support medieval fortifications above them. Along the way, Manu offers context that helps you connect what you see to why it exists — and why it still matters.

Designed to enjoy at your own pace, this 90-minute self-guided experience is ideal for curious travelers who want to understand Málaga from the ground up, gaining insight that lingers long after the walk ends.

On this self-guided walk, you’ll have a chance to:
  • Trace Málaga’s transformation from ancient port to modern city through its streets and monuments
  • Observe how Roman, Islamic, and Christian histories intersect in the city’s architecture
  • Photograph the Gothic Sagrario Church, built on the site of Málaga’s former main mosque
  • Stand before the unfinished Cathedral of Málaga and uncover what its missing tower reveals about the city
  • Identify the Roman Theater and understand its role within the Alcazaba fortress above
  • Pass the Picasso Museum and explore how Málaga’s artistic legacy extends beyond a single figure
  • Step inside the Carmen Thyssen Museum to encounter 19th-century Spanish art in a historic palace
  • Discover how local wine, markets, and bodegas reflect Málaga’s long relationship with trade and geography
  • Encounter monuments honoring thinkers like Ibn Gabirol, highlighting Málaga’s medieval intellectual life

By the end of the walk, you won’t just recognize Málaga’s landmarks, you’ll understand how centuries of history continue to shape the city you’re walking through today.
Meet Your Expert
Manu

Manu is master architect by the University of Granada and master in historical construction technology by the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Born in a small town of La Mancha region, by 2008 he moved to Granada to study the architecture degree, where he also managed an urban photography course and worked as editor of an international arts and architecture magazine. After finishing in 2015 he did an overseas university program in the Yokohama National University in Japan. From 2016 he worked as architect in the architecture office of the University of Castilla La Mancha, doing several projects in cities as Toledo, Cuenca, Albacete and Ciudad Real until 2018. During this period he studied a Master degree in historical construction technology by the Polytechnic University in Madrid with a final thesis based on the islamic decorative technique: "mocárabes". In May of 2018 he got his official guiding licence and started his own architecture studio, combining since then in the work in the andalusian territory as guide with architecture projects, working on his own and along with different national and international teams. He has been invited as guest lecturer and expert in historical construction in different universities and institutions including countries like Japan, Qatar or Greece among others. During the pandemic in 2020 he did several courses about visualization technology in restoration and architecture and got his third master degree in teaching by the University of Granada. But apart from the academic work Manu started developing that year a realism-rooted artistic career with different exhibitions around the country like "Domestic Icons" in 2025. He was included in the "National Realism Award" exhibition from MUREC museum in Almeria as one of the 24 most relevant young realist painters of the country. Manu also enjoys flamenco, traditional gastronomy, literature and history.

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