Piazza della Misericordia
Nineteenth-century obelisk over a mass grave of liberal rebels lured into a fatal trap and shot without trial.
Location
About this audio guide
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.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
English Cemetery in Malaga
Terraced Protestant burial garden of cypress and myrtle, graves capped with seashells above the sea.
Jardines de Puerta Oscura
Terraced hillside garden with pools and stone stairways, built into a fortress wall by forced labor.
Plaza del Obispo
Baroque bishop's palace fronted by a marble altarpiece, gutted by fire in a night of anticlerical riots.
Cerro San Cristóbal
Pine-covered hilltop park nicknamed for painted letters that once spelled a political message, now vanished, above sweeping city and coast views.
Ermita de Zamarrilla
Baroque chapel where a fugitive bandit's legend still clings to a sorrowful Virgin's mantle.
Mirador de Gibralfaro
Hilltop viewpoint framing the port, bullring and coastline from a fourteenth-century fortress.