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Private Tour – Malaga Highlights

Malaga
Book online or call: +44 0800 015 4961
Duration: 4h
Activity Level: Easy
Experience: Adventure, Historical, Nature
Language: English
Photo permit included
Tour by public transport
Canal Boat tour included
Train tickets included
Suitable for little children
Wheelchair accessible tour
Museum ticket included
Light snack included
Lunch included
Transportation included
Walking Tour

Overview

Located in Andalusia on the Costa del Sol, Malaga is one of the most visited cities in Spain. Malaga offers plenty of historical and cultural buildings and there really is something for everyone. For amazing views of the city you must visit the castle of Gibalfaro from which it is easy to get to the Roman Theatre, and the old part of the city. The old part of the city is dominated by the Monument to Torrijos and the house where Pablo Picasso was born.

The Cathedral known as La Manquita stands proudly in the centre of the city and it has a series of chapels which contain beautiful examples of Andulusian art.

Malaga is well-known for its food and throughout the year there are several food festivals!

What's included

  • English-speaking driver
  • Pick-up and drop-off
  • Transportation
  • Food and drinks
  • Entrance fees
  • Pick-up and drop-off at the port of Malaga

Highlights

Gibralfaro Castle
The ruins of the Gibralfaro castle lie on the slopes of the Malaga hill overlooking the city and the Mediterranean Sea. A Moorish castle of an unknown origin, Yusuf I of the Kingdom of Granada built it during the Phoenician-Punic period. The name of castle is derived from the Arab word Yabal (hill) and another Greek word Faruh (lighthouse). The name Gibralfaro means lighthouse hill.
Malaga
Málaga, port city, capital of Málaga Provincia (province), in the Comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southern Spain. The city lies along a wide bay of the Mediterranean Sea at the mouth of the Guadalmedina River in the center of the Costa del Sol. It was founded by the Phoenicians in the 12th century, conquered successively by the Romans and the Visigoths, and taken by the Moors in 711. Under Moorish rule, it became one of the most important cities in Andalusia. When the caliphate of Córdoba disintegrated, the kingdom of Málaga was founded, ruled over by emirs who named it “terrestrial paradise.” After they had failed several times, Christians took the city on August 19, 1487.
Malaga Cathedral
Málaga Cathedral, one of the city’s key architectural attractions, is known locally as ‘La Manquita’, or ‘The One-Armed Woman’, due to its uncompleted second tower. Built between 1528 and 1782 near to the site of an early Almohad mosque, original plans for this huge Renaissance and Baroque-style cathedral had included two towers, but the second was never built because of a lack of funds. Construction dragged on for over two hundred years before the Mayor of Málaga commissioned Aragonese architect José Martín de Aldehuela (1729–1802) to finish the cathedral off in the late 18th century. Aldehuela’s other iconic contributions to the province include Ronda’s stunning ‘New Bridge’ and bullring.
Malaga Three Graces Fountain
The Three Graces or Three Nymphs Fountain, work of the engineer José María Sánchez was installed in the nineteenth century in the Alameda Principal, then the Plaza de la Marina, and then relocated to the square of the Plaza del General Torrijos, at the end of Paseo Central Park district, near the neighborhood of Malagueta. It consists of three sections and two cups in which there are the three female figures carved in marble dressed in robes, with agricultural tools, a paddle and the horn of plenty as an allegory of fertility.
Plaza Merced
Plaza Merced (Plaza de la Merced) is a public square located in the barrio La Merced in central Málaga, Spain. The plaza has been a part of the city since the city of Málaga's Roman era and has been operating as a town market place since at least the fifteenth century. It is one of the largest public squares in Málaga’s city center and is also known for containing Pablo Picasso's childhood home.

Itinerary

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You will be met at the port and guided you to your air-conditioned transportation ready to commence your tour.

Bustling Malaga is more than the administrative capital of the region. With its ancient monuments and impressive architecture, it’s a city of major historic importance. Whilst, as birthplace to Pablo Picasso, it’s home to the greatest artist of the 20th century.

Your tour of Malaga begins in port, where you will start your panoramic bus tour. The route through the city will allow you to see many of Malaga’s important buildings, from the Bank of Spain and City Council, to General Torrijos Square, the Noble Hospital and the Tres Gracias (Three Graces) Fountain.

Your first destination is the spectacular Castillo de Gibralfaro, the 14th century castle that stands proud above the city. Here, you can take a short stroll around this fascinating ancient monument and popular tourist destination.

You’ll journey by bus back into central Malaga and begin your walking tour of the heart of the city at Merced Square, where Picasso lived as a child, and at the nearby Santiago church, where the artist was baptised – as Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso!

Malaga Cathedral, the ancient Arab fortress and the shops of Larios Street are the other attractions on your tour, before you leave central Malaga behind, as you return to your ship.

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