Playa Pedregalejo
Dark-sand cove beach with breakwater coves and seafront chiringuitos serving grilled sardines.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Playa Pedregalejo in Malaga tells the story of Banos del Carmen, the padlocked pleasure palace built beside this beach and opened on 16 July 1918. It follows how engineer Carlos Loring expanded a modest bathhouse into pools, a restaurant, a hundred changing huts, tennis courts and one of the city's first cinema screens, drawing wealthy Malaguenos out on the tram to dance until dawn. You'll hear how package tourism and a 1982 law opening every Spanish beach to the public unraveled that business, and how one rescue plan after another quietly failed. Order an espeto of sardines here at Pedregalejo, grilled the way fishermen have for generations, and look east toward what remains of it.
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