Malaga

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"Malaga city stands in the plain and adjacent to the sea. Within the city circuit is a point of land that juts into the sea whereon is a high built castle standing on a mound, the whole enclosed by a double wall. Outside the town is another castle, greater in size and height, which is known as the Alcazaba, and from that inner castle to the one outside extend double walls running together throughout. Below and outside the town, and where another headland is jutting out into the sea, there are the dockyards and arsenal: and beyond these again an enclosing wall starts that goes back from the sea front with many towers in its circuit. This wall encircles many fine orchards belonging to the city; and beyond these far at the back rises a high mountain range on the slopes of which lie many homesteads, with vineyards and orchards. Along the strand between the sea shore and the city wall are built stores that are warehouses for merchandise, and the town itself is very densely populated."

- Guy Le Strange, The Embassy of Clavijo to Tamerlane, 1403-1406 (London: Broadway Travellers, Routledge, 1928), Chapter 1, p. 26.