Iglesia de San Juan de Málaga
Mudejar-Baroque parish church with a tall three-tier bell tower rebuilt after a seventeenth-century earthquake.
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This guide to the Iglesia de San Juan de Málaga starts at the foot of its bell tower, which doubles as a doorway into the church, and looks at how it was raised in the eighteenth century after an earlier tower fell. It then turns to a single day in May 1931, when Spain was only weeks into its republic, and to the artworks and records the parish held. Start where the tower frames the entrance, so you can look up as you listen.
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