Church of the Holy Martyrs Ciriaco and Paula
Rococo-fronted parish church behind a surviving Mudejar tower, sending out Holy Week brotherhoods on foot-borne thrones.
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This guide to the Church of the Holy Martyrs Ciriaco and Paula in Málaga follows the Cofradía de la Columna, the brotherhood nicknamed the Gypsies, as it prepares to carry two wooden thrones on human shoulders through Málaga's old town on Holy Monday evening. It traces the church back to Ferdinand and Isabella's conquest of the city in fourteen eighty-seven, and to a will from sixteen eighty-two that first names a Christ-of-the-Column confraternity elsewhere in town. The building itself layers a surviving Mudejar tower under a rococo facade added centuries later, restored again as recently as twenty twenty-one.
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