Playa La Caleta

This guide to Playa La Caleta in Málaga opens on July 16, 1918, when a crowd gathered on the headland here to do something that could have gotten them arrested a year before. It traces the decades of segregated bathing that came before that day, with men and women wading in from separate curtained bathhouses along this coast. You'll hear about engineer Carlos Loring, backed by a group of wealthy locals, and the pavilion he raised on a former quarry point just beyond where you're standing. Stand at the water's edge and picture the gate, the curtain and the whistle that once stood exactly here.