Calle Marqués de Larios
Grand shopping boulevard of arcaded facades, watched over by a marquis's bronze statue that was once thrown into the sea.
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This guide to Calle Marqués de Larios in Málaga opens with a riddle: why a mob once dragged a bronze statue downhill and threw it into the sea. It traces the boulevard back to the wealthy Larios family, whose sugar, cotton and shipping fortune paid to flatten a warren of medieval lanes into this arcaded street in 1891, built by twelve hundred laborers who could never afford to live behind its windows. You'll hear what happened to the marquis's statue when the Second Spanish Republic was declared in 1931, and who briefly took his place on the plinth. Look up at the boulevard's facades and imagine the crowd that once knew exactly where to go.
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