Mercado de Atarazanas
Nineteenth-century iron market wrapped around a fourteenth-century Moorish shipyard gate and a vast stained-glass wall.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mercado de Atarazanas in Málaga opens with a riddle: who colored the market's cathedral-sized stained-glass wall, more than a hundred panes strung above the fish stalls. The answer traces back to a Real Madrid defender from the club's golden years under Di Stefano and Gento, commissioned decades later to paint Malaga's skyline in glass. It also follows the horseshoe stone arch you likely walked through, a leftover from a Nasrid shipyard once slated for demolition until the city's San Telmo Academy of Fine Arts stepped in to save it. Look up at the glowing panes above the fish stalls, then down at the centuries-older stone beneath them.
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