
Ninety seconds on Museo Picasso Málaga
You can follow Picasso's whole working life in the city where he was born, from drawings he made at thirteen to a plate he decorated with a bull's head in his seventies. Book ahead for a summer weekend.
Picasso's collection fills the Palacio de Buenavista, and each gallery mixes work from different decades, so a portrait of his son can hang beside a Surrealist head and a late ceramic. The audio guide runs as a web app on your own phone, so bring headphones.
Then go down to the level below the ground floor. There you can see the vats of a Roman factory that salted fish for export, a cobbled street from the old palace and its storage jars set into the cellar floor. Finish in the garden among orange trees and bougainvillea, or at the café beside it.
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