Alameda Principal
Bronze monument to a sugar-and-textile magnate, flanked by allegorical figures of labor and gratitude.
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This guide to the Alameda Principal in Málaga centers on Manuel Domingo Larios, whose family's sugar and cotton fortune paid to cut this straight new street through Málaga's old lanes, and on the bronze monument merchants raised in his honor after his death in eighteen ninety-five. Sculptor Mariano Benlliure gave him company at the pedestal: a laborer with a pickaxe and a woman offering up a child, work and gratitude flanking money. On the fourteenth of April nineteen thirty-one, the day the Second Republic was declared, a crowd hauled the statue down and dragged it through these very streets.
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