Mirador de Gibralfaro
Hilltop viewpoint framing the port, bullring and coastline from a fourteenth-century fortress.
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This guide to the Mirador de Gibralfaro in Malaga returns to the siege that ended here on 18 August 1487, when a gate creaked open after four months without food or water. It follows Hamet el Zegri, commander of the Gomeres, who turned down mercy that Ferdinand and Isabella had offered from their camp at Velez. You'll hear what that refusal meant for the thousands of ordinary people still inside the walls when the city finally surrendered. Look past the bullring toward the harbor as you listen, at the same coastline that watched it unfold.
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