Parque de la Batería
A 15-metre observation tower rises above old pines and artillery emplacements, and somewhere below it a Neptune statue stands ankle-deep in a 9,000-square-metre artificial lake. Parque de la Batería holds these contradictions without apology: cannons and carousels, bunkers and boat rentals, a Dummies Tree imported from Sweden and eight bronze sculptures of Spanish comic-strip characters.
The park sits just north of La Carihuela, connected to the shore by a panoramic lift on Avenida de Carlota Alessandri. On a clear morning the tower's upper platform gives you the coast in both directions — a view the Moors valued enough to build a fort here centuries before anyone thought to plant a thousand trees on the hillside.
💛 What travellers fall for
People who come back tend to time it for the August Jazz Festival — free concerts on three nights, starting at 9:30 pm when the heat has finally eased. The €1 elevator on Carlota Alessandri (tap card only) is worth knowing about if you're walking up from the beach rather than arriving by train.
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Long before the park existed, this ridge above La Carihuela held Moorish-era watchtowers built to spot pirates approaching the coast. Those structures were long gone by the Spanish Civil War, when a guardhouse on the site was expanded into a full artillery battery — bunkers, underground tunnels, and four Schneider 155mm cannons that had been Spanish Army standard since 1922.
The battery fired its last shot in 1951 and was fully disarmed by 1957, after which the military handed the land to Torremolinos town hall. The park that eventually replaced it was inaugurated on 28 July 2007, keeping the cannons, the bunkers, and three artillery emplacements as open-air exhibits while layering in everything else around them.
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Spring and autumn — April through June and September through November — give you temperatures between 19°C and 26°C with reliable sunshine and little rain, which suits an outdoor park well. July and August are dry and bright but can push past 30°C by midday; the old pines provide real shade, and the evening jazz concerts in August sidestep the worst of the heat.
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