Playa de la Malagueta (Málaga)

This guide to Playa de la Malagueta in Málaga starts with a strange question: would you let a doctor lock you in a wooden box and lower you into the sea as treatment? That was the nineteenth-century sea cure, when Málaga's bathhouses like Diana, Estrella and Apolo dunked patients under doctor's orders, men and women kept strictly apart behind screened huts. You'll hear why the whole medical experiment got evicted from its original spot in 1887, forced to relocate here in search of cleaner water. Along the way it follows the changing rules about who could bathe, and when, and how.