Teatro Cervantes
Restored nineteenth-century opera house with an allegorical painted ceiling, once hidden behind a movie screen.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Teatro Cervantes in Málaga begins in 1870, when a Valencian painter named Bernardo Ferrándiz was given the ceiling of a theatre built in a hurry after its predecessor burned. You'll learn who he and his friend Antonio Muñoz Degrain were, and what Málaga's fishermen, dockers and factories are doing up there. Best heard from your seat in the hall, with the painted sky overhead.
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