Parque del Oeste

This guide to Parque del Oeste in Málaga starts with a puzzle: nobody built this park to feed you, yet the smell of frying fish follows every visitor out its north gate. It traces the ground's earlier life as the Jardín Cinema, a summer picture house where families watched films under the open sky through the 1960s, and the German sculptor Stefan von Reiswitz who wandered the same lot decades before anyone paid him to fill it with bronze animals. You'll hear how architect Eduardo Serrano turned the abandoned cinema site into a park in the early 1990s. Walk the loop past the swans before following that fish smell out to Calle Realenga de San Luis.