Playas del Palo
Sandy fishing-village beach where sardines are still skewered on canes and grilled over sand-buried boats.
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This guide to Playas del Palo in Málaga follows a poor nineteenth-century fishing village and the fisherman Miguel Martínez Soler, who started threading cheap sardines onto cane reeds and grilling them over coals inside an old half-buried boat at his beachside stall, La Gran Parada. It traces how word of that method spread along the coast, and the visitors it eventually drew. Look down the shoreline today and you'll still see the same low wooden boats, packed with sand and glowing embers, run by families who are often descendants of the ones who started it.
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