Iglesia de Santiago
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We visited the city of Malaga entering it in the same way the Catholic kings did in 1487, by the so-called Royal Street where was located the access door to the street called the Puerta de Granada that forms part of the wall that Surrounded the ancient city. The best way to discover Malaga is with rent a car Malaga Airport
When entering the street we find on the right end the old neighborhood of the morería and to the left the church of Santiago, one of the first 4 churches that built the Catholic kings after the reconquest.
The church tower is Gothic Mudejar style, the tower is decorated with motifs reminiscent of the towers of northern Morocco, Tangier. The church of Santiago mixes two architectural styles, the Gothic, the architectural current linked to the construction of churches par excellence and the Mudejar, a unique architectural style in the Iberian peninsula. Visit Malaga with Fetajo Car Hire Malaga airport.
A curiosity of the parish of Santiago is that the currently closed gate was the old church built at the beginning of the sixteenth century and was the first church built in Malaga.
In this church was baptized one of the most international Malaga persons in history, on the facade of the church there is a commemorative plaque where it is identified as November 10, 1881, Pablo Picasso was baptized in this parish. He was born in a place very close to the church, in the Plaza de la Merced. You can visit the church of Santiago with Fetajo car Hire Mijas.
Inside the church you can marvel at one of the jewels of the sacred art of the city of Malaga. In the central nave you can see a basilica style church, but the interior of the parish has no features like the exterior of the building with Gothic Mudejar styles, the interior has a baroque decoration characteristic of 18th century Christian Malaga.
The veneration and importance of the image of Jesus the Rich lies in the history it keeps, in the eighteenth century when plague and cholera devastated the city of Malaga, so many sick and dead people led to prohibit the processions of the holy week for this reason.
The prisoners of the prison of Malaga asked the director to carry out the procession, they were told to obeying the prohibition, they refused and the prisoners managed to escape. Legend says that after showing the image through the streets of Malaga, all the prisoners returned to jail minus one, the latter was caring for a friend with cholera and returned the next morning. Three days after the events Malaga recovered from the plague. Discover Malaga with Rent a car Málaga.
This story reached the ears of King Carlos III (King Mayor of Madrid), hearing the story he decided that from that moment Malaga would allow the release of one prisoner every year.
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