Iglesia de San Juan de Málaga

This guide to the Iglesia de San Juan de Málaga traces its three-tiered bell tower back to the 1680 earthquake that toppled the original, and the decades of rebuilding that followed. It then turns to the twelfth of May 1931, weeks after Spain's Second Republic was declared, when mobs moved through the city during the wave of church burnings known as the Quema de Conventos. The guide follows what those hours cost the parish, from carvings linked to the sculptor Alonso Cano to records dating back to 1520, and the later blows the church absorbed in 1936 and 1980.