Parroquia Santiago Apóstol Málaga

This guide to the Parroquia Santiago Apóstol in Málaga starts at the baptismal font where a baby christened with a page-long string of names, in November eighteen eighty-one, would grow up to be known as Picasso. It traces the church's own layered past, founded soon after Málaga fell to Ferdinand and Isabella in fourteen eighty-seven, with a brick bell tower that began life as a mosque's minaret and still shows Almohad sebka brickwork. Baroque altarpieces were later added over its Gothic apse, and the building took serious damage during the Spanish Civil War in the nineteen thirties before being restored.