Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica de la Encarnación de Málaga
Baroque facade with one soaring bell tower and one left permanently unfinished, nicknamed the one-armed lady.
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This guide to the Cathedral of Málaga follows master builder Antonio Ramos, who took over the unfinished facade in 1723 and worked on it for nearly six decades without ever seeing it done. It tracks how he roofed the nave, chained the stonework together against collapse, and finally raised the completed south tower, second in height in Andalusia only to Seville's Giralda. You'll hear the two competing explanations for why its twin tower never rose, including a local legend about the American war for independence. Look up at the roofline where the second tower simply stops, mid-sentence, exactly as Ramos left it.
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