Soho
Riverside arts quarter of murals and galleries, once a rough dockland tamed after a catastrophic flood.
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This guide to Soho in Málaga follows the transformation of a rough dockland by the Guadalmedina river, once known for its late-night fights, into an open-air gallery after the city invited international artists to paint its blank walls. You'll meet the Belgian artist Roa, whose stark black-and-white murals of rats climb a building at the end of Casa de Campo street, and hear about the river's sudden, deadly flood in nineteen-oh-seven, which drowned twenty-one people. The city later caged that same river in concrete after the disaster.
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