Mercado de Salamanca

This guide to Mercado de Salamanca in Málaga follows architect Daniel Rubio Sánchez, who drew up the market's glazed-tile, horseshoe-arch design in September 1922 for a budget the builder Rafael Sánchez Pérez would soon blow past. It traces the construction through 1925, the mounting cost overruns, and the resignation letter Rubio handed the city council three weeks before the doors opened, saying he no longer felt he had everyone's confidence. You'll hear how the money dispute with the builder dragged on for years afterward. None of that argument shows in the tilework overhead.