Pedregalejo
Former fishing village where hand-hauled nets once landed the day's catch on a sandy beach.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Pedregalejo in Málaga opens with a question: how did fishermen here outwit the sea using nothing but rope, timber, and eight rowing arms? It traces the jábega, a wooden boat design reaching back roughly three thousand years to Phoenician sailors who named this coast Malaka, and follows the eight-man crews who rowed it out before dawn. You'll meet the marengos, the villagers who worked the shore, and hear how this fishing system survived here until it was banned only a few decades ago. Astilleros Nereo, one of the last traditional boatyards left in Spain, still shapes jábega hulls by hand on this same stretch of sand.
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