Cerro San Cristóbal
Pine-covered hilltop park nicknamed for painted letters that once spelled a political message, now vanished, above sweeping city and coast views.
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This guide to Cerro San Cristóbal in Málaga starts with three whitewashed letters once painted onto the hillside, J, A, C, for Juventud de Acción Católica, Catholic Action Youth, put up in August 1939 right after Spain's civil war ended. It follows a number that does not add up: those letters were not the first message on this slope, and you'll hear about the rival initials they were painted over. The guide also tracks one father who kept climbing the hill alone for years to repaint the letters after the son who first painted them was gone. Stand at the summit for the same view Málaga once read a political argument by.
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