Palace in Sicily – Travel Guide

Malaga Hot Spots. This city, famous for the sun and the beach, keep its streets a historical past and a lot to offer visitors, among them many beautiful places and impressive monuments to discover, you can not miss if you make a trip to this city.

At the foot of the hill Gibralfaro, near the Castle of the same name, is located the Alcazaba, which is the leading exponent of the city’s Muslim past. It was built by King Taifa of Granada, Ben Badis Habous, and its oldest parts date from the eleventh century.

Gibralfaro Castle was built in the fourteenth century to protect the Alcazaba and shelter the troops. After the conquest, was used to keep the losers, and also played the role of residence of Ferdinand, later, was destroyed in the nineteenth asiglado, by Napoleon’s troops. Today only the ruins, but you get excellent views of Malaga.

The magnificent Cathedral of Malaga is known as the Manquita because one of its towers was never finished and stresses the choir stalls of the famous sculptor Pedro de Mena, and the two magnificent organs of the eighteenth century and his side is the Plaza del Obispo, where Episcopal Palace is of great architectural beauty and home to the Diocesan Museum, which hosts free severalgroup.

Among the prominent places of the city are the Plaza de la Merced, where prominent people lived and the place is the house of Picasso, the museum, which is of Renaissance architecture, is located in a XVI century building, the Palace Buenavista National Monument, which houses more than 3,500 contemporary works and gathers more than 200 works by the artist from Malaga, through paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics.