Port of Málaga

The Port of Málaga sits on a natural bay at the foot of Mount Gibralfaro, marked by a modern promenade featuring hundreds of palm trees that bridge the gap between the historic city center and the Mediterranean Sea. As the oldest continuously-operated port in Spain, its history spans three millennia to its founding by Phoenician traders around one thousand before the common era. Early settlers named the site Malaka, likely after the Phoenician word for salt, as they used the waterfront to process fish.