Santiago Church
Placed in the street Granada, this church was build on the lot of a former mosque. It is the most ancient church of Malaga. Its foundation dates back of July 25, 1490. Of the original front only there remains, blocked, the central door of Mudejar style. The beautiful tower is also of Mudejar style. The interior of the temple, Gothic - Spanish Muslim living under Christian rule, presents three ships, though in its origins it had only one.
In this church Picasso was baptized in 1881.
It was raised in parish in 1505 and confirmed in 1510 by bulla of the dad Julio II. The original church was clear of three ships with chamfered props that they were supporting pointed arches. The major ship was finished off of polygonal form by external buttresses and covered by armor of bow, today it conceals, being wings of hangingly.
Mudejar tower
It was constructed a little separated from the wall of the
church; with the low part destined for baptismal chapel, with
cover of starry vault.
The access to the top part was done by external stairs to
the tower. Externally it is of three bodies, highlighting
the second one with arches mixtilíneos of tradition
almohade. The cloth of sebka presents points of contact with
the tower of Carmona's Santiago. The main entrance is of brick
, forming a pointed arch framed for alfiz that descends up
to the soil. In the hair-nets there is a decoration of tiling
glazes of ceramics with motives of bow.
The reform of the S. The XVIIIth: with the accomplishment of a new sacristy; new doors of access to the lateral ships, cegamiento of the main entrance a choir raised on the major ship with new stairs of access, the gilding of the altarpiece and the chapel of Pilar. The soil was reduced and the armor was covered with a false vault of plaster and canes and the vault of the presbytery became new also. The works were projected by the teacher Philip de Unzurrunzaga.
Sculptural works
It is necessary to emphasize the major altarpiece acts of 18th century, proceeding from the church of the convent of Archidona's Santo Domingo.
Pictorial works
Oil of the Virgin of the Child's Souls of Guevara, and a Santiago Matamoros of the same painter; a reclining Christ; Christ's Baptism; an Apostle San Andrés, the Good Shepherd, the Inmaculate Conception and the Virgin of the Rosario, you copy all of them of Murillo.
Santiago Church
Granada Street.
9.00-13.30h. y 18.00-20.00h
15th-18th Century
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