Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Málaga, Spain

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Number of sights 29 sights
Distance 11.8 km
Ascend 517 m
Descend 423 m

Experience Málaga in Spain in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in MálagaIndividual Sights in Málaga

Sight 1: Ermita de Zamarrilla

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The Hermitage of Zamarrilla, sometimes called simply Zamarrilla hermitage, is a temple of small Catholic Christian dimensions located in the limits of the neighborhoods of El Perchel and La Trinidad, of the city of Malaga. It is based on the brotherhood of Zamarrilla. This is a work of the 18th century by the architects Felipe Pérez Conde and Felipe Pérez "the youngest".

Wikipedia: Ermita de Zamarrilla (ES), Website

1037 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 2: Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares

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The Museum of Popular Arts and Customs, also called the Unicaja Museum of Popular Arts, is an ethnographic museum located in the Historic Center of Malaga, Spain.

Wikipedia: Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares (Málaga) (ES)

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Iglesia de San Juan

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The church of San Juan Bautista is a Catholic temple in the city of Malaga declared an Asset of Cultural Interest as a Historical Heritage of Andalusia in 2019.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Juan (Málaga) (ES)

151 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Iglesia del Santo Cristo de la Salud

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The Church of the Holy Christ of Health is a Catholic church located in the Andalusian city of Malaga, Spain. This building dates from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was built by the Society of Jesus.

Wikipedia: Iglesia del Santo Cristo de la Salud (Málaga) (ES), Website

79 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga

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The Carmen Thyssen Museum is an art museum in the Spanish city Málaga. The main focus of the museum is 19th-century Spanish painting, predominantly Andalusian, based on the collection of Carmen Cervera, fifth wife of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Wikipedia: Carmen Thyssen Museum (EN), Website

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Mesón de San Rafael

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Mesón de San Rafael

The old inn of San Rafael is a property in the city of Malaga (Spain), located on Calle Compañía. The complex is located in the vicinity of the old access gates to Malaga, in an area that was historically dedicated to the hotel industry, probably with its origin in the Muslim funduq, having maintained both the activity and the urban fabric until the Modern and Contemporary Age, contributing to configure, to a large extent, the landscape of this part of the city. It is very characteristic as a neoclassical style inn-type, whose forms refer to a classicist language, with small ornamental concessions, the building occupying the interior of the block.

Wikipedia: Mesón de San Rafael (ES)

171 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Iglesia de Santa María Reina y Madre

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The oratory of Santa María Reina y Madre is a Catholic Christian temple, located in the historic center of the city of Malaga, Spain. The temple was built in 2008 and was consecrated on November 1, 2008 as the headquarters of the Brotherhood of the Sorrows.

Wikipedia: Oratorio de Santa María Reina y Madre (ES)

278 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Museo de la Semana Santa

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The Museum of the Holy Week of Malaga is located in the Historic Center of the city, in the property of the former San Julián Hospital. It is a religious museum, inaugurated in 2010. It is managed by the Association of Brotherhoods and exposes a collection of pieces of the history of the brotherhoods and the grouping, the processions, the music, the artisanal trades, the imagery, oils, Thrones and equipment related to Holy Week in Malaga.

Wikipedia: Museo de la Semana Santa (Málaga) (ES), Website

472 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Museo del Vidrio y Cristal

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The Museum of Glass and Crystal is a museum of decorative arts in the city of Malaga, Spain. It is located at number 2 of the Plazuela del Santísimo Cristo de la Sangre, in the neighborhood of San Felipe Neri, in front of the church that gives the neighborhood its name. The visits are always guided.

Wikipedia: Museo del Vidrio y Cristal (ES), Website

54 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Iglesia de San Felipe Neri

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The church of San Felipe Neri, also known as the church of the Holy Cross and San Felipe Neri, is located in the neighborhood of San Felipe Neri, in the Centro district of Malaga (Spain).

Wikipedia: Iglesia de San Felipe Neri (Málaga) (ES)

318 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Museo Interactivo de la Música

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The Interactive Museum of Music Malaga (MIMMA) was created in 2003 and consists of more than 1000 instruments from different periods, countries and cultures; which makes it one of the most complete private collections in Spain, due to its variety as well as its size.

Wikipedia: Museo Interactivo de la Música de Málaga (ES), Website

251 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Iglesia de Santiago

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The Church of Santiago Apóstol is a Roman Catholic church located in the Andalusian city of Malaga (Spain). Its style is an exponent of two artistic moments of vital importance, the Gothic-Mudejar of the beginnings, with a clear symbiosis between the art of the Christian reconquerors and the Islamic population, and the emergence of the Baroque of the early eighteenth century, which produced in this building a strong building renovation corresponding to the new mentality. The artist Pablo Picasso was baptized in this church on November 10, 1881.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de Santiago Apóstol (Málaga) (ES), Heritage Website

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Teatro Echegaray

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The Echegaray Theatre is a stage space located at number 6 Calle Echegaray in the historic centre of the city of Malaga, Spain. It is owned by the Malaga City Council and is managed by the Cervantes Theatre.

Wikipedia: Teatro Echegaray (ES)

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Catedral de Málaga

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Catedral de Málaga mahr / CC BY 2.0

The Cathedral of Málaga is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Málaga in Andalusia in southern Spain. It is in the Renaissance architectural tradition. The cathedral is located within the limits defined by a now missing portion of the medieval Moorish walls, the remains of which surround the nearby Alcazaba and the Castle of Gibralfaro. It was constructed between 1528 and 1782, following the plans drawn by Diego de Siloe; its interior is also in Renaissance style.

Wikipedia: Málaga Cathedral (EN), Website, Url

305 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Marqués de Larios Street

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Marqués de Larios Street mahr / CC BY 2.0

Calle Marqués de Larios, also known simply as Calle Larios, is a pedestrian and shopping street in Málaga, Spain. The street was inaugurated on 27 August 1891.

Wikipedia: Calle Marqués de Larios (EN)

262 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Iglesia de Santa María del Sagrario

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Iglesia de Santa María del Sagrario Maxim.Fotos / CC BY-SA 2.0

The parish church of El Sagrario is a temple located in the city of Malaga, Spain. It is a church built between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, located in the historic center, on Santa María Street. It is in the Elizabethan Gothic style and contains a Plateresque altarpiece. It was one of the four parishes erected by the Catholic Monarchs.

Wikipedia: Parroquia del Sagrario (Málaga) (ES)

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Abadía de Santa Ana

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The former Abbey of Santa Ana de Recoletas Bernardas del Cístercian, better known as the Cistercian Abbey, is a building located in the historic center of the Spanish city of Malaga.

Wikipedia: Abadía del Císter (ES)

472 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 18: Alcazaba de Málaga

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The Alcazaba is a palatial fortification in Málaga, Spain, built during the period of Muslim-ruled Al-Andalus. The current complex was begun in the 11th century and was modified or rebuilt multiple times up to the 14th century. It is one of the best-preserved alcazabas in Spain. The Alcazaba is also connected by a walled corridor to the higher Castle of Gibralfaro, and adjacent to the entrance of the Alcazaba are remnants of a Roman theatre dating to the 1st century AD.

Wikipedia: Alcazaba of Málaga (EN), Url

431 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 19: Museo de Málaga

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The Museo de Málaga is a museum in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain. Formed in 1973, it brought together the former Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, born in 1913, and Museo Arqueológico Provincial, born in 1947. As of 2010, the museum remains institutionally divided into two "sections" corresponding to the older museums. There are slightly over 2,000 pieces in the Fine Arts collection and over 15,000 in the Archeology collection. The museum opened to the public in December 2016, becoming the biggest museum in Andalusia and the 5th in Spain.

Wikipedia: Museo de Málaga (EN), Website

297 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 20: Jardines de Puerta Oscura

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The Puerta Oscura Gardens are located in the city of Malaga, Spain.

Wikipedia: Jardines de Puerta Oscura (ES)

126 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Jardines de Pedro Luis Alonso

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The Pedro Luis Alonso Gardens are located in the city of Malaga, Spain.

Wikipedia: Jardines de Pedro Luis Alonso (ES)

782 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 22: The English Cemetery in Málaga

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The English Cemetery in Málaga NatalieMaynor / CC BY 2.0

The English Cemetery in Málaga, or Anglican Cemetery, or Cemetery of St George, is the oldest non-Roman Catholic Christian cemetery established on mainland Spain.

Wikipedia: English Cemetery, Málaga (EN), Website

1238 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 23: Monumento a Torrijos

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The Torrijos Monument is an obelisk erected in honor of José María de Torrijos y Uriarte in the Plaza de la Merced in the city of Malaga, Spain. Designed by the municipal architect Rafael Mitjana y Ardison, it is considered to be the most important and characteristic urban civil monument of Malaga in the 19th century.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Torrijos (ES)

59 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 24: Monumento a Pablo Picasso

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The Statue of Pablo Ruiz Picasso is a sculpture by Francisco López Hernández that is located in his hometown of Malaga, Spain. It depicts the artist sitting on a marble bench, with a notebook and pencil. It was inaugurated on December 5, 2008.

Wikipedia: Estatua de Pablo Ruiz Picasso (ES)

75 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 25: Fundación Picasso Museo Casa Natal

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Fundación Picasso Museo Casa Natal

The Fundación Picasso, also known as the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Foundation, is a foundation based in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain with the objective of promoting and promulgating the work of the artist Pablo Picasso. They are headquartered in the home on the Plaza de la Merced that was his birthplace, now the Museo Casa Natal, one of the world's many Picasso museums.

Wikipedia: Fundación Picasso (EN)

1011 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 26: Castillo de Gibralfaro

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Gibralfaro Castle or Gibralfaro Fortress is a fortification located in the Spanish city of Malaga.

Wikipedia: Castillo de Gibralfaro (ES)

511 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 27: Monte Gibralfaro

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Mount Gibralfaro is a hill located in Málaga in southeast Spain. It is a 130 m high foothill of the Montes de Málaga, part of the Cordillera Penibética.

Wikipedia: Gibralfaro (EN)

913 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 28: Monte Sancha

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Monte Sancha, or Monte de Sancha, is a neighborhood belonging to the Centro district of the Andalusian city of Malaga, Spain. According to the official delimitation of the city council, it is bordered to the north by the neighborhoods of Advantage Alta and La Vaguada; to the east, by the neighborhood of El Limonar; to the south, by La Caleta; and to the west, by the Cañada de los Ingleses.

Wikipedia: Monte Sancha (ES)

1662 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 29: Parque Forestal Monte Victoria

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Monte Victoria Park or Monte Victoria Forest Park is an urban forest park located in the district of Malaga City Centre, around Mount Victoria.

Wikipedia: Parque Monte Victoria (ES)

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