Plaza de la Constitución
Twelve-sided Renaissance marble fountain assembled from three centuries of civic spending in a historic square.
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This guide to the fountain at Plaza de la Constitución in Málaga traces three separate purchases made across two and a half centuries: a base and basin bought from Genoese marble workshops around the 1540s, a central section of the Three Graces carved by José Micael Alfaro in the 1630s, and a wide lower basin added by Miguel del Castillo in the 1790s. You'll hear how the finished fountain was later treated as movable property, relocated again and again to whichever corner of the city needed impressing most. Look closely at the marble, and the seams between the centuries are almost readable.
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