Piazza della Misericordia

This guide to Piazza della Misericordia in Málaga opens with a young Irishman named Robert Boyd, writing a last letter from a Málaga jail cell in 1831. He had sailed with the exiled Spanish general José María de Torrijos, convinced by an old comrade, now the city's governor, that Málaga was ready to rise against King Ferdinand VII. You'll hear how that friendship carried Torrijos and his men across from Gibraltar, and how the welcome waiting for them didn't match the letters he'd been sent. The obelisk beside you, raised in 1842 over their crypt, still carries their names.