Visit Malaga Plaza de la Merced, Andalucia, Spain
Malaga Plaza de la Merced
La Plaza de la Merced is a Plaza in the neighborhood namesake of the city of
Malaga, Spain. This is one of the main Plaza in the center of the city, where there
are events and festivals, besides being a meeting point at night. In the Plaza are
located the obelisk in honor of General Torrijos and the birthplace of Picasso, the
current headquarters of the Picasso Foundation.
History
It was a plaza outside the walls that after the Christian conquest happened to
house a market, where it was called Plaza del Mercado. Later called Plaza de
Riego, in memory of the general liberal nineteenth century, who lived in the square.
In this century it became a place of recreation for the bourgeoisie. By then he had
a fountain in the center, which was supplanted by the neoclassical obelisk Torrijos
in 1842, designed by Rafael Mitjana.
Northwest of the plaza was the church and convent of Our Lady of Mercy, built
in 1507 and enlarged in the eighteenth century, that burned with the burning of
convents in 1931 and was demolished in 1964 to build a place a block of flats [1].
The square was renovated in 1857 and again in 1988, retaining its nineteenth-
century image.
Among the notable buildings around the square are: the numbers 9-10, the oldest
of the square, with facades of the eighteenth century, the number 12 of 1883
building featuring a glass gallery on the top floor, the numbers 15 - 20, known as
the Casas de Campos, the birthplace of Pablo Picasso in 1881, where today is
located the Picasso Foundation, and the number 1, 1878.
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