JOURNEY TO “CANTES” OF MALAGA

This is a very special trip. Crossing the Guadalmedina by one of its most unique bridges ‘Puente de Santo Domingo o de los alemanes’ we discover that we are entering another Malaga. The walk takes us to the interior of several ‘Casas de Vecinos’ called ‘Corralones’. An architecture inherited from the 19th century where neighbours share a common place: the courtyard. A place for meeting, working, daily chores such as cooking, washing or even washing up, always shared by all the families living in the same building. Today they have become colourful gardens, with pots, flowers and decorations made by the residents of the neighbourhood themselves. We knock on the doors of their houses and they allow us to enter, and there, amidst the surprised looks of the visitors and the curious ones of the inhabitants of the Corralón, a flamenco sound surprises us from a corner.

Accompanied by the singing, the guitar and some very special hosts, we will walk through its humble streets, full of experience and we will go back into other corralones, and the flamenco palos (styles) will be adapted because it is there where the styles of Malaga were born. We will unravel the roots of these styles, we will get to know the legacy left by flamenco figures born in these neighbourhoods, among its streets and its people. They will surprise us with stories told first hand and will offer us, at the end of the route, a gastronomic tasting of their own traditional cuisine prepared by themselves under the direction of La Alacena del Corralón.

And so, during a 3-hour tour, we travel to the heart of a neighbourhood and one of its most outstanding pillars, which is already an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.