Plaza del Obispo
Baroque bishop's palace fronted by a marble altarpiece, gutted by fire in a night of anticlerical riots.
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This guide to Plaza del Obispo in Málaga opens on the night of 11 May 1931, when a mob stormed this doorway during Spain's Second Republic. It reaches back two centuries to Bishop José Franquis Lasso de Castilla, who commissioned the palace, and architect Antonio Ramos, who spent a decade finishing it around 1772. You'll hear how anger stoked by a cardinal's pastoral letter reached these streets, and what the Civil Guard and the city's governor did, or didn't do, as the crowd broke in with bars and axes. Across the city that night, forty-one religious buildings burned.
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