Malaga - Cathedral & churches
The CATHEDRAL & Cathedral museum
Molina Lario Street.
Telephone: 952 215917
Visiting hours: 10.00a.m.-12.45p.m. & 4.00p.m.-5.30p.m.. Closed on Sundays.
Renaissance interior (17th c.) Baroque main entrance (18th c.)
It is called the Cathedral of the Incarnation, built in 1528, in the gothic style above a former Muslim mosque.
Contains almost all the architectural styles from the 16th to the 18th century since a lot of different architects participated in it's construction.
Still, it maintains an impressive uniformity taking under consideration that it wasn't completely finished one of the towers was never completed, for this reason and in an affectionate way, people in Malaga call their Cathedral " The One-armed ".
In the interior of the Cathedral there are many works of art, beautiful representations of the Virgin as imagined by great artists and next door in the Cathedral's Museum this art display is expanded in a marvelous way.
The Virgin of the Victoria Sanctuary
Telphone: 952 252647
8.00a.m.-12:.00p.m. mornings & 4.30p.m.-8.00p.m.evenings. approximately. closed on Mondays.
Bus #1 that leaves from the rear side of the Malaga Palacio hotel will take you there.
In the interior you will find the Pantheon of the Counts of Buenavista. Plaza of the Sanctuary. 15th to 17th centuries.
Plaza del Santuario. 15th c.-17th c.
This church took the place of the old hermitage built to worship the Virgin and Child who were considered to be the cause of the victory during the times of the Recon quest of the city, that is the reason why the name of Virgin of Victory was given, this Virgin is also the patron saint of Malaga.