What to see for 48 hours in Malaga, the fashion city of Spain
Folder of cultural tourism for 20 years, Malaga is no longer only the city of museums, but a destination to enjoy all leisure options with hotels, Michelin stars, lifelong bars and atmosphere at any time of the year.A fashion city to rediscover and perfect to escape on the November bridge or on any weekend.
Notice for navigators, two days are insufficient.Malaga has many charms and 48 hours is nothing, that Gardel would say.We travel the sixth most populous city in Spain that has experienced in the last two decades an unparalleled transformation to become a cultural tourist destination par excellence of the south.In these 20 years, Malaga has gone from having four museums and exhibition centers to exceed 37, and many of his abandoned buildings have recovered to host cultural, consumption or luxurious spaces.European Capital of Smart Tourism for 2020-2021, the arrival in Malaga of new higher category accommodations and the completion of the work to attract luxury moorings next to the spring area 1 intend to finish positioning this city as a reference for tourismPremium
48 hours in Malaga.Day 1
12.00 H. Arrival.
Traveling to Malaga is easy for what is the means of transport chosen.10 kilometers from the capital of the Costa del Sol, its airport is the most important fourth in Spain (it connects with some 130 destinations, 110 of them international and in 2019 it received about 19.8 million travelers);Its high -speed train station manages more than three million displacements, and its port has become the fifth destination for cruises in the country and second of the Peninsula.If one arrives in AVE and is going to stay in the center, you can have a first contact with the city walking there through the main alameda, where the kiosks of cobjusted flowers in the shadow of ficus centenarians remain typical.
Upon reaching Larios street, it is convenient to bring it back.It will go through it many times during your visit, because it is the axis around which everything happens in Malaga since it was pedestrianized in 2002, but you will always find an excuse to return: from taking an ice cream in Dimas Mira e Children, the oldest ice cream shop inMalaga inaugurated in 1890, until a whim was given in the nearby Sensse Boutique (with his own brand and clothing from different designers), going to enjoy multiple urban art shows or even attend the fashion parades during the Larios Málaga Fashion Week catwalk.If you deviate minimally on Moreno Monroy street, you will find the Chinitas restaurant (3), the favorite of Chiquito de la Calzada, a favorite son of Malaga, with the permission of Picasso and flags.
13.30 H. snack with mandatory stop.
Larios leads to the Plaza de la Constitución, whose ground is adorned with the reproduction in stainless steel plates of the covers that five newspapers carried after the approval of our Magna Carta.Perfect time for the appetizer, we recommend that you be on its way to Granada Street, pedestrian like the entire center and crowded with terraces to take the first (for example, in the buganvilla, at street level, or on the terrace of the perhaps, inHeights).For food, reserve in the Pimpi, the most famous tavern of the city that has just turned 50, or, failing that, the Pimpi Sole (Middle Ticulture, 35 euros), more gastronomic format inaugurated a five years ago.
There is no famous to boast that he has not alternated in the Pimpi, his photos hang from the walls and the most privileged have barrel with signature.Mocadillitos (essential that of Pringá), Malagueta prawns and chestnut ham, among other classics that, if you feel on the terrace of the Sole can combine with Niguiris and sushis to the Malacitana (eye to the sweet of the axarchy, tuna and foie caramelizedwith Teriyaki by Pedro Ximénez and crispy almond).Open from 12 to dawn, more than 2,000 people can spend up to these tables owned to 50% of Pepe Cobos and Antonio Banderas.
16.00 H. Picassian Paseo.
With full stomach, what less than dedicating the afternoon to Picasso.A minute on San Agustín Street, it has the Picasso Málaga Museum (from 9 euros), whose inauguration in 2003 was the one before and then final for the city.Located in a 16th -century palace, it contains more than 230 works that travel all its times, or what is the same, one of the most important collections of the painter.From there, you can go to the Plaza de la Merced, take a photo with the sculpture that reminds the artist and visit the Natal Casa Museum (4 euros) where in addition to family memories some of his works are exhibited.As a climax, visit the Santiago Apóstol parish.In one of his chapels, Don Pablo's baptism departure is exhibited and he will be surprised to read the very long name that his parents gave him.
18.00 H. Unique views.
If it does not entertain, and as long as summer schedules last (last entry at 7:30 p.m.), it would give time to go to the Alcazaba (3.50 euros).Built in the eleventh century, the ride in this defensive fortress must be taken easy, enjoying its gardens and their balconies from which the city and bay dominates.If you look for better panoramic, you will have to climb to the Castle of Gibralfaro (3.50 euros) at 130 meters above sea level.Before saying goodbye to the heights, you can take a snack and take a last photo of dusk at the Malaga Gibralfaro hostelof the city, with magnificent views of the Alcazaba, of the Roman Theater and (as a curiosity) of the attic in which Antonio Banderas passed the confinement.
21.00 H. dinner and sleep in a palace.
If this last recommendation has followed, the solecio palace will have one step (from 165 euros, you can book here), the first Luxury Boutique Hotel in Malaga and the perfect place to rest.The pandemic caught him freshly opened and remained closed until this summer, but his arrival in Malaga was an event since it meant the recovery for the city of one of the most important civil works buildings.XVIII that in recent years had been abandoned.It has 68 rooms, all different, and some elements, such as the baroque paintings of its facade, the great staircase of the hall and the columns of the portico patio, were restored from the originals rescued from the ruins.
For dinner, it will not have to move, because the hotel has the plus to house, in a pleasant inner courtyard under a glass cover, the Balance restaurant (tasting menu, 45 euros), whose gastronomic director is José Carlos García, the only chef with star chefMichelin de Málaga.
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48 hours in Malaga.Day 2
9.00 H. The centrum on foot.
In front of the hotel, you can buy drunkenness, crazy cakes and other typical sweets in the princess, one of the most beloved pastries by the Malaga.The caloric bomb will help you take its way.First stop: Cathedral of the Incarnation (10 euros with a rise to the roofs), known as "La Manquita", because one of its towers remained half -building due to the lack of budget.In front of them, the animated Plaza del Obispo, with its crowded terraces and colorful episcopal palace (1762).Losing through the narrow alleys that surround it, it will arrive at Chinitas passage, a coqueto and bohemian corner that owes its name to the missing Chinitas coffee that Lorca sang.You can read the poem on the facade of the building that was and in which today (things of gentrification) tourist apartments are being built.On the way to the next destination, it will go through Centraldonde Café can try the 10 ways to ask for coffee in the Malaga style.
11.00 H. Thyssen environment.
On the street company will arrive at the Villalón Palace (16th century), today Carmen Thyssen Málaga Museum (10 euros). Inside, one of the most complete collections of Andalusian painting of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (with 230 works), and spaces for temporary exhibitions (which will be dedicated to the teacher Sorolla and photographer Paul Strand). In its surroundings many alleys to which for years the city turned its back and that today have been revitalized thanks to the museum and its brand. On his walk where he was a more scoundrel of the city today he will discover galleries, craft workshops, specialized shops and Arab baths (such as Hammam al Ándalus, one of the most authentic) that coexist with curious spaces such as the antique store La Casa of the Cardinal, owned by an nephew of Antonio Molina; The Vegan-Vegetarian restaurant El Calafate, and the invisible house, a historic building occupied since 2007 in whose pleasant patio, turned into a clandestine bar, Malaga and tourist families coincide at the time of the appetizer.
13.00 H. Way to Soho.
Speaking of this, and to finish opening the appetite, we recommend you continue route to the Central Market of Atarazanas, which was Nazarí shipyard in the s.XVI (retains the old monumental door) and today offers the best fruits, fish and meats in a beautiful iron building with stained glass that deserves visit inside and out.You can cover in one of its bars or kill the bug with a bag of fried potatoes by Paco José, the best frying of the city, according to the locals, with local very close to the market.
You can also continue to the old house on guard, the oldest bar in Malaga.Founded in 1840, it smells like wine, the accounts with chalk are continued on the bar and alternates with Moscatel, Pajarete, Vermut or Pedro Ximénez ("A Pedro", as it should be requested, 1.30 euros), which are paired withprawns and mussels.Entering is easy;Exit, not so much.
14.30 H. New attractions.
Before eating, we will walk to the Soho, that neighborhood that no longer emerges but also between the Heredia and the Alameda dock.Consecrated to urban art, here it is possible from Catar Craftsan beers (El Rincón del Cervecero), to attend a musical at the Antonio Banderas' Sohoprop'S Theater, going through photographing the impressive walls of Obey and D*Face and other artists or buyingClothing in Disaster Street Wear, also decorated with graffiti.To eat, you can choose between drift and creative cuisine, twins, specialized in fish or the Antxoeta Art Restaurant, which presumes to offer the most scounding gastronomic experience in the center of Malaga.
16.00 H. desktop.
If you feel like a digestive, very close has two hotels whose rooftops offer opposite and highly recommended panoramic views, in addition to good combined: the room mate Valeria, which looks at the sea, and the soho equitable boutique, with an unmatched view of Larios street. With renewed energies, we will cross the Plaza de la Marina - Paraíso de Skaters and young Malaga that shows that the center of this city is not limited to Guiris - to reach the Paseo del Parque. Recovered to the sea in the nineteenth century, its exuberant gardens with exotic species of the five continents make it one of the most important parks in Europe from the botanical point of view. On its left margin, three beautiful buildings of disparate architectural styles: the Museum of Malaga, which houses that of Fine Arts and the Archaeological, the rector of the University and the City Council. If you turn in the direction of the sea, you will find the Pompidou Center (9 euros), known as El Cube for Daniel Buren's incubé work that serves as identity. Until next February you can enjoy Miró's high exposure to Barceló. A century of Spanish art.
20.00 H. Michelin star dinner.
Si ha cuidado los tiempos, antes de cenar aún podrá volver al hotel para acicalarse o entregarse al shopping en el Muelle 1, donde se encuentra el restaurante en el que sí o sí debe reservar en su visita a Málaga: JCG(menú degustación, 140 euros), que ya decíamos que es el único estrellado en la ciudad. En un espectacular local con jardín vertical, cocina abierta en la que se puede reservar mesa y sala perfecta para eventos, José Carlos García ofrece una cocina basada en el producto de proximidad -que compra personalmente en Atarazanas- y los sabores malacitanos con un toque de rock&roll. Además de clásicos como su polvorón de pipas, probará el mejor plato de quisquillas de toda la costa del Sol.
48 hours in Malaga.Day 3
9.00 H. before the farewell.
Time is exhausted if we stick at 48 hours, so you will have to choose.The Cultural Plan would go to visit the Russian Museum (8 euros), one of more shocking in the city for the wealth of the collection of the State Museum of St. Petersburg that supplies it and for the large monumental canvases that usually include its annual exhibitions -currentlyWar and peace in Russian art.Located in the old tobacco building, which also hosts the automobile and fashion museum, it is an option withdrawn from the center, so it values to take some means of public transport.
If you prefer to play beach, we recommend that you walk towards Malaguetapor the Reding Paseo, a town in the 19th century bourgeois houses and ficus of imposing glasses, and in which the romantic English cemetery will find, the oldest Anglican fields of the Peninsula.Essential to say goodbye with one of spots.The best, in the Pedregalejo area, which although further away, deserves the effort of the walk.Baños del Carmen spa, for its impressive location;The wedge, one of the favorites of the natives and where they presume to serve the best fried fish in all Malaga, or the chiringuito merlo the stir with good, beautiful and cheap spots (2 euros), they can be the perfect place to say to Malaga: "Until next time".
