Baños del Carmen

This guide to Baños del Carmen in Málaga opens with a question: what kind of fountain poured wine instead of water in the gardens of this seaside bathhouse. It traces the resort's 1918 opening as El Balneario Nuestra Señora del Carmen, and how it broke the era's rules by letting men and women share the open sea instead of separate pools. Within a few years it had a pier, an open-air cinema screen over the water, and a dance floor said to be the largest in the city.