# Alcazaba Castle 6 
Built around the middle of the 11th century on a hill in the center of the city, overlooking the port, this Moorish fortress-palace towers over Malaga and offers a wonderful panorama of the city and the sea.
by Maksym Abramov / CC BY-SA 2.0
# Town Centre 5.5 
This most picturesque neighborhood of Malaga is mainly pedestrianized and lively throughout the year.
by Juandev / CC BY-SA 3.0
# Port of Málaga (Puerto de Málaga) 5.5
The most interesting parts of the vast Port of Malaga are the modern and elegantly designed Muelle Uno (Pier 1) and Muelle Dos (Pier 2).
While Muelle 1 is a lively 14,000 m2 shopping and dining area at the seafront with a marina for luxurious yachts, Muelle 2 is a gorgeous waterfront promenade.
by DXR / CC BY-SA 4.0
# Gibralfaro Castle 5.5
Located even higher up on the Mount Gibralfaro hilltop than the Alcazaba, this Moorish-era Castle offers certainly the best view across the surrounding countryside and sea in Malaga.
by Horst Goertz / CC BY-SA 3.0
# Picasso Museum (Museo Picasso Malaga)5.5
Located in an elegant Renaissance building only two hundred yards from the Plaza de la Merced, Picasso’s birthplace, this small museum holds around 150 mostly early works of Pablo Picasso.
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- Highlight: Child with a Shovel, Pablo Picasso (1971), 195 x 130 cm
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Interesting Artworks: 4/10 Famous Artworks: 4/10 Art Display: 6/10 Building: 6/10 Size: 3/10 🧮 Overall: 4.6/10
Modern Art Museum Gallery Space: ca. 2,000 m2 / 21,527 ft2 | Galleries: ca. 20 | Artworks on Display: ca. 204 | Established: 2003 | Visitors (2017): 635.891
by Berthold Werner / CC BY-SA 4.0
# Carmen-Thyssen Málaga Museum 5 
Housed in an elegant sixteenth-century palace, the focus of this interesting museum is 19th-century Spanish painting, predominantly Andalusian.
The paintings on display are part of the personal collection of Carmen Cervera, the fifth wife of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.
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- Highlight: Julia, Ramon Casas i Carbó (1915), 85 x 67 cm
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Top 10 Artworks of the Carmen-Thyssen Málaga Museum:
1) Julia, Ramon Casas i Carbó (1915) by Wikimedia / Public Domain 2) La Buenaventura, Julio Romero de Torres (1922) by Wikimedia / Public Domain 3) Saint Marina, Francisco de Zurbarán (c. 1640-1650) by Wikimedia / Public Domain 4) The Concha, Night-time, Darío de Regoyos (1906) by Wikimedia / Public Domain 5) Rocas de Jávea y el bote blanco , Joaquín Sorolla (1905) by Wikimedia / Public Domain
Interesting Artworks: 5/10 Famous Artworks: 3/10 Art Display: 5/10 Building: 6/10 Size: 3/10 🧮 Overall: 4.6/10
Art Museum Gallery Space: ca. 2,000 m2 / 21,527 ft2 | Galleries: ca. 12 | Artworks on Display: ca. 230 | Established: 2011 (Click on images to open in lightbox, recommended)
# Cathedral 5 
Malaga’s striking 16th-century cathedral bears the nickname “La Manquita” (one-armed) because the south tower was never finished.
by Berthold Werner / CC BY-SA 3.0
# Malagueta Beach 5
Located between the Port of Málaga and La Caleta beach, this famous urban beach features more than 1 km of fine yellow sand, a scenic promenade, showers, bathrooms, and vibrant beach bars.
Beach Water Temperature: Jun-Oct, 21-20.5° C
by Oxfordian Kissuth / CC BY-SA 3.0
# Roman Theatre 5
Sitting underneath the Alcazaba, the Roman Theatre was built during the reign of Emperor Augustus and rediscovered in 1951, after having remained buried underground for many centuries.
by andynash / CC BY-SA 2.0
# Botanical Gardens of Finca de La Concepción 5
Created around 1855, Finca de La Concepción with more than 25,000 plants belonging to about 2,000 different species is one of the most beautiful and important tropical and subtropical gardens in Spain.
Botanical Garden Land Area: 23 hectares / 56 acres | Created: 1855
by Daniel Capilla / CC BY-SA 4.0
