La Farola de Málaga
Neoclassical harbor lighthouse funded by local merchants and built by prison labor to end shipwrecks at the bay's mouth.
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This guide to La Farola in Málaga starts in 1814, as merchants funded a lighthouse to stop ships wrecking on the sandbar at the harbor's mouth. It follows the Consulado, the merchants' guild that footed the bill, the twenty-five-doubloon contributions demanded of the city's richest businesses, and how engineer Joaquín María Pery y Guzmán tried to hold down costs as the budget spiraled far past what officials had planned. Every hull lost at the harbor mouth had meant cargo, credit, and reputation gone for the traders who worked this port.
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