Plaza de la Marina

This guide to Plaza de la Marina in Málaga opens with an engineering puzzle: how a team of Barcelona engineers made water dance without a visible wire, when architect Fernando Salvia's fountain first lit up over this reclaimed square on the fifteenth of January 1964. It then follows a second puzzle from the 1980s, when the city needed a parking garage beneath the plaza without flooding it under the fountain still running above. While builders dug for that answer, they uncovered something nobody had planned for at all, buried since this land was first reclaimed from the sea in the eighteen hundreds.