La Manquita. Catedral de Malaga at Night
by Jenny Rainbow
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La Manquita. Catedral de Malaga at Night
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Jenny Rainbow
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La Manquita. Catedral de Málaga at Night by Jenny Rainbow.
Cathedral de Málaga.
Málaga’s great cathedral, one of the city’s most impressive monuments, is known locally as ‘La Manquita’, or ‘The One-Armed Woman’, due to its uncompleted second tower. Built between 1528 and 1782 near to the site of an early Almohad mosque, original plans for this huge Renaissance and Baroque-style cathedral had included two towers, but the second was never built because of a lack of funds. Construction dragged on for over two hundred years before the Mayor of Málaga commissioned Aragonese architect José Martín de Aldehuela (1729–1802) to finish the cathedral off in the late 18th century.
Source: theculturetrip.com
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November 2nd, 2018
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