Lagunillas

This guide to Lagunillas in Málaga explains why this stretch of pavement used to flood every time it rained, starting with the clay pits dug into the hill of El Ejido to supply old Málaga's roof tiles and bricks. It follows how those abandoned quarry scars filled with standing water, dozens of small ponds that gave the neighborhood its name, long before a real street was cut through the marsh in the nineteenth century. You'll hear how that wet, muddy ground turned into one of the city's busiest markets, with stalls and mule carts rattling over ground that used to swallow footsteps. The clay is still down there, packed beneath the ordinary asphalt you're standing on.