Map | Enchanted Málaga

Where did the love letters go? For several decades now, they have been wandering through the vast content of the Internet. What used to be vented with pen and ink is now spread with thumbs on a mobile screen. Messages that, without a physical medium, drop anchor when they are geolocated on a map.

This is the case with 'A map of us', a website that allows users to mark a location anywhere in the world and leave a feeling, message, or reflection associated with that place. And love, the most universal feeling, occupies most of the missives. In the city of Malaga, more than 70 love messages are hidden in its virtual corners.

This map, conceived and programmed by developer Gabe Szeto, a 22-year-old American currently residing in London, has become a viral phenomenon on platforms like TikTok and Instagram.

This cartographed love of Malaga's residents and visitors is nurtured and expanded thanks to the collaboration of users of this website. Like a time and space capsule, 'A map of us' also serves as a dialogue between lovers—like the two messages located at the Dolce Vita ice cream shop on the Antonio Banderas Promenade. An open window to the love stories of dozens of anonymous people with something in common: they will always have Malaga.