Malaga made us work for its good bits. It seemed like the city just didn't really want us to visit, with its complete lack of anything resembling information as we left the bus station.
Turns out the centre is pretty nice with its historic buildings and its castles on hills.
Not as nice as Granada though. Now there's a city that can do a hilltop fort. I'd been sceptical about the Alhambra as all the pictures I'd seen had been a bit underwhelming. From the photos it looks like it may have just been made of boxes. Don't get me wrong, it's impressive that the boxes were taken up the hill 700 years ago, but its not exactly pretty.
Turns out the pretty bit is on the inside. The decor in the Nasrid Palace was phenomenal. And the whole complex is enormous, we were there for half a day and didn't see everything.
But we had to leave so we could use the second half of the day to cross the river and climb a hill to look back on the Alhambra whilst eating ice cream. Turns out that's a thing.
And final bit of history: went to the Royal Chapel to get our Ferdinand and Isabella on. Adter that I knew a lot more about Spanish History. But have forgotten it all again because beer and tapas.
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