PICASSO museum

Dedicated to the most influential artist of the 20th century in the city where he was born in 1881. Open every day.

The Malaga Picasso Museum Foundation. The Paul, Christine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Legacy has the aim of preserving, exhibiting, studying and disseminating the work of Pablo Picasso.

The Picasso Museum Málaga is conceived as a nucleus of projection and cultural and social impulse, to which the citizens come not only to enjoy the heritage, but also to be participants in didactic activities and beneficiaries of cultural services.

CONSTITUTION SQUARE

The Plaza de la Constitución is a public street in the center of the city of Malaga, Spain. It is the old Plaza Mayor, located in the heart of the city, which since the 15th century has been the public and political space of the city par excellence.

Among the buildings that surround the square, the Old Jesuit School and the Consulate House stand out. In 2003, the square and the neighbouring Marqués de Larios street were made pedestrian and the Genoa Fountain was relocated here.

malaga cathedral

The Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica de la Encarnación is the cathedral of Málaga, Spain. Located in front of the Plaza del Obispo, the temple is considered one of the most valuable Renaissance jewels in Andalusia.

It is located within the limits of the disappeared Arab wall on the site of the primitive aljama mosque, the place where the Catholic Kings Isabel and Fernando ordered a Christian temple to be built a few days after conquering the city in 1487.

PLAZA DE LA MERCED

The Plaza de la Merced is a square located in the homonymous neighborhood of the Spanish city of Malaga.

It is one of the main squares in the city centre, where events and festivals are usually held. In the square are located the obelisk in tribute to General Torrijos and the birthplace of Picasso, home of the Picasso Foundation and Birthplace Museum.

 PICASSO FOUNDATION MUSEUM HOUSE OF BIRTH

The Fundación Picasso Museo Casa Natal is a cultural institution based in the Spanish city of Malaga that aims to promote and disseminate the work of the painter Pablo Picasso. Created by the City Council of Malaga in 1988, is located in the building of the Birthplace of Picasso, in the so-called Casas de Campos in the Plaza de la Merced.

The Foundation has the following areas of activity: the Birth House Museum, which treasures childhood and family memories of the painter as well as works by Picasso and José Ruiz Blasco, his father, a painter and professor at the School of Fine Arts in Malaga.

CARMEN THYSSEN MUSEUM

It is one of the main museums in the Spanish city of Malaga. It was inaugurated in 2011 and brings together one of the most important collections of Spanish and Andalusian painting from the beginning of the 19th century to the beginning of modernity in the 20th, which covers some of the main genres of Spanish art in this period, such as landscape and costumbrismo. Its more than 250 works come from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection and also include a selection of pieces by old masters.

LARIOS street

Marqués de Larios Street, considered one of the most elegant 19th century streets in Spain, is located in the city of Málaga. In 2018 it was positioned as the third most expensive street in Spain in terms of rental income, making it one of the most desirable shopping streets in Europe. On December 14th 2002, its pedestrianization was inaugurated, starting the deep rehabilitation and revitalization plan of the Historical Center of Malaga.

Also known as Calle Larios, from its name in honor of Manuel Domingo Larios y Larios, II Marquis of Larios, which presides over the beginning of the street with a sculpture group of Benlliure located at the intersection with the Alameda Principal.

PALACE OF THE CUSTOMS AND MUSEUM OF MALAGA

The Palacio de la Aduana de Málaga is a building designed in 1788, originally intended to serve the port’s traffic. Located next to Malaga’s park, it is currently the headquarters of the Malaga Museum. In 2006 the Government awarded the drafting of the project to move the Museum of Malaga to the Customs House and in 2007 all the administrative units left the building.

The Museum of Málaga is an exhibition centre in the Spanish city of Málaga that houses the collections of two Malawian museum institutions, the Fine Arts Museum of Málaga and the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Málaga.

CERVANTES theatre

The Teatro Cervantes in the Spanish city of Malaga is one of the oldest performing arts venues in the capital of the Costa del Sol, dating back to 1870 and with 1,200 seats. It is the main venue of the Malaga Festival.

The theater was built in 1869 after the destruction in a fire of the Teatro del Príncipe Alfonso, which was the name of the old Teatro de la Merced after the visit to the city in 1862 by Queen Elizabeth II. After that unfortunate event it was decided to build a new theater under the direction of the architect Geronimo Cuervo, which was inaugurated in 1870 with the name Teatro Cervantes.

GLASS AND CRYSTAL MUSEUM (0,4KM)

The Museo del Vidrio y Cristal is a museum of decorative arts in the city of Malaga, Spain. It is located at nº2 Plazuela del Santísimo Cristo de la Sangre (former Gaona street), in the San Felipe Neri district, in front of the church that gives its name to the neighbourhood. The visits are always guided.

Open to the public in September 2009, the museum contains a collection of three thousand pieces, mainly glass and crystal but also furniture, paintings and other decorative objects from different periods and cultures, from the personal collection of the historian and restorer Gonzalo Fernández-Prieto.

MALAGA PARK (0.5 KM)

The Parque de Málaga or Parque de la Alameda, is a park located in the center of the Andalusian city of Málaga, Spain. The design corresponds to a Mediterranean garden with numerous tropical species, which makes it one of the most important public parks in Europe as far as exotic flora is concerned.

In this walk with gardens on both sides, of Renaissance and Baroque character, there are botanical species from all five continents. It was built at the beginning of the 19th century on land reclaimed from the sea, for the expansion of the port in an expensive operation.

CENTRAL MARKET OF SHIPYARDS (0.6 KM)

The Mercado Central de Atarazanas is a municipal market in the Spanish city of Malaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

The current building, designed by the architect Joaquín de Rucoba, was built between 1876 and 1879 on the site where there was a naval workshop of Nazari origin, of which only one marble door remains and from which its name comes; shipyard.

JORGE RANDO museum (0,6 KM)

The Jorge Rando Museum is the first expressionist museum in Spain. Dedicated to the painter Jorge Rando, it houses his work and, temporarily, that of national and international artists linked to this movement. It was officially opened on May 28, 2014.

Its museum mission is focused, first, on the study and dissemination of Jorge Rando’s work as well as on the research of expressionist poetry, a movement that has been one of the most fruitful contributions of contemporary Western culture, in the broad sense of the term, since the late nineteenth century until today.

VIEWPOINT OF GIBRALFARO (0.7 KM)

Gibralfaro, in the central part opposite the Malaga cove, is part of the southern estimates of the Montes de Malaga, a mountain range of the Penibetic mountain range formed by materials from the Maláguide complex. The mountain is covered by a thick forest of pines and eucalyptus. Its summit is crowned by the Castle or Alcazar de Gibralfaro and at its foot are located other monuments or historic buildings, such as the Alcazaba, the Roman Theatre, the Seminary and the Puerta Oscura Gardens. The mountain is represented on the coats of arms and flags of both the city and the province of Malaga.

la malagueta beach (1 KM)

Dark sand beach, it has an extension of 1,200 meters in length and 45 meters in average width, and usually has a moderate swell tide.

When the hot season begins, we can find rental services for sunbeds and umbrellas, as well as nautical equipment such as pedal boats. It also has a children’s play area for children to have fun, making it an ideal beach to enjoy with the family.

Next to this beach is the Real Club Mediterráneo de Málaga, the oldest in Spain with the most current benefits.

center pompidou malaga (1,4 KM)

It offers a tour of the art of the 20th and 21st centuries with around seventy selected works from the incomparable collection of the Center Pompidou, one of the two most important in the modern and contemporary world. This journey through the history of art of our time, renewed every five semesters, is nurtured every year, too, from two to three temporary exhibitions.

The experience is lived through multidisciplinary programs dedicated to dance, representation, speech and cinema, with the help of mediation devices aimed above all at a young audience.

port of malaga (1,4 KM)

It is a commercial, passenger, cruise, marina and fishing port. The average annual temperature is 19ºC. Since 1998 it has been undergoing a profound process of remodelling, as part of the project known as the Special Plan for the Port of Málaga.

This project has allowed the port to be used by the public, creating a profuse palm grove, an extensive commercial and catering area including shops of all kinds, housing the Pompidou Museum in Malaga and an advanced cruise terminal that has made Malaga a leading port in Spain for receiving Mediterranean cruises.

AUTOMOBILE AND FASHION MUSEUM (3 KM)

The Automobile Museum of Malaga is a museum dedicated to the automobile located in the old building of the Royal Tobacco Factory in the Spanish city of Malaga.

The more than ninety vehicles on display belong to different stages since 1898, constituting a representative variety of models of the great brands: Hispano Suiza, Bugatti, Delage, Packard, Auburn, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Jaguar, Mercedes, Ferrari, Lancia, etc. as well as engines. In addition, the museum houses a fashion section with vintage hats, hatboxes and period luggage.