Museo del Patrimonio Municipal
Municipal heritage collection housed in a glass-fronted building on the site of a vanished fortified corridor.
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This guide to the Museo del Patrimonio Municipal in Málaga opens with King Ferdinand's 1487 siege, when his forces surrounded the hills below Gibralfaro and funneled refugees into the city to strain its food supply. It follows the coracha, a hidden walled corridor once running beneath this site, that carried bread and water up to commander Hamet el Zegri's men holding the castle above for months. Merchants inside the packed streets grew desperate as supplies ran low. Stand at the glass walls now, exactly where that lifeline once waited for its next delivery of bread.
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