Muelle Uno looks solid enough underfoot, but stand beneath its white metal and concrete pergola, looking out over Málaga’s port, and you are historically treading water. A couple of centuries ago this whole promenade lay beneath the harbour.

The land appeared through a nineteenth-century bargain. When the old port proved unworkable, a new deep-water port was built further out and paid for publicly, on condition the city keep the reclaimed ground for a park. That park, planted with subtropical species from around the world, still runs alongside Muelle Uno, its palm-filled stretch known as the Palmeral de las Sorpresas.

Revamped in 2011 with its own cruise terminal, Muelle Uno now looks across to container ships and cruise liners, with La Malagueta beach beyond the buildings. VoiceMap’s self-guided audio tours start here, tracing Málaga’s leap from Phoenician trading post to nineteenth-century industrial powerhouse, built by transplanted Rioja families like the Heredias.