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Alameda Principal 
This was once an area of defensive walls and beaches until, in the 18th century, it was converted into an urban zone designed by López Mercader. Elegant houses and mansions were built along this tree-lined avenue (the term 'Alameda' means Boulevard/Avenue, but it also means 'Poplar grove'), which were mainly owned by merchants, and it became a fashionable area of 19th century Málaga. At that time, the avenue was known as Salón de Bilbao. There was a central pedestrian walkway with many sculptures and fountains and carriage lanes on both sides. It was the hub of Málaga's social life until the opening of a new street, Calle Larios, which then took on that special status. In 1925, the central walkway was opened to traffic, transforming it into a modern avenue known as Alfonso XIII. After the Spanish Civil War, it was renamed Avenida del Generalísimo and some of its more emblematic buildings were built. In 1966, it was extended across the river via the bridge known as El Puente de Tetuán.
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Granada
This street has long been one of the main thoroughfares in Málaga. It is a channel for rainwater running down from Mount Gibralfaro and El Arroyo del Calvario, which helps to explain its twisting layout and dead-end alleyways. After the region was re-conquered from the Moors, the street was renamed Calle Real, or Calle Real de Granada, as the Granada gateway was used by the Catholic Monarchs for their triumphant entrance into the city. In the 19th century, one section of the street was renamed de la Zapatería, and another section was renamed de la Herrería, due to the fact that the Guild of Cobblers ('Zapatería' means 'Cobbler's') and the Guild of Blacksmiths ('Herrería' means 'Blacksmith's) set up their headquarters there. However, it soon became known by its current name, as it is the main road out of the city towards Granada and also because it ends at the Granada gateway in the defensive wall. Between the 15th and 17th centuries, various shrines, convents and charitable institutions were established here, but, by the 19th century, had all ceased to exist due to the French invasion and the period of disendowment. This, in turn, made way for a new urban layout of transversal streets.
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Marqués de Larios
This is one of the main streets in Málaga and, since the 19th century, has been the access route from Plaza de la Constitución to the Port. It is the result of a major development scheme that had to be delayed until 1886 for economic reasons. The merchant company known as Hijos de Martín Larios decided to undertake the scheme in accordance with a project proposed by the architect Moreno Monroy, succeeded by José María de Sancha and Manuel Rivera Valentín, and carried out by Strachan y Viana de Cárdenas. It was officially opened in 1891. The surface was made of wooden paving blocks. In 2003, both this street and Plaza de la Consitución were rehabilitated through a project drawn up by the architects Juan Gavilanes Vélaz de Medrano, Francisco González Fernández and Iñaki Pérez de la Fuente, after which they became pedestrian-only zones. It has long been the nerve centre of the city, and remains so to this day. Local residents call it Larios.
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Plaza de la Constitución
This was a main square during the Moorish period, with many streets leading off it. Following the Christian conquest, it was called Plaza Mayor, or Plaza de las Cuatro Calles, and bullfights and other festivities were held here. It has also been known as Plaza Real. In the 16th century, it was the site of: Las Casas Capitulares (The Capitular Houses), La Audiencia (Law Court) and La Cárcel Pública (The Public Prison). In 1812, it was renamed Plaza de la Constitución. When King Fernando VII returned, the nameplate was torn down and remained so throughout the reign of Queen María Cristina. During the period of disendowment in the 19th century, various properties were demolished and replaced by two shopping arcades known as Pasaje de Heredia and Pasaje de Chinitas. Due to many urban renewal programmes, it was renamed on several occasions: Plaza de la Libertad, Plaza de la República Federal, Plaza del 14 de abril, and Plaza de José Antonio Primo de Rivera, until the start of democracy, when it was given its current name. During the Easter celebrations, it is the venue for the Tribuna Prinicipal (Main Stand) where dignitaries watch the festivities. In 2003, the City Council refurbished the Plaza and Calle Marqués de Larios, converting them both into pedestrian-only zones.
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Plaza de Spínola
This small Plaza, which lacks a nameplate, is situated at the end of Calle Sánchez-Pastor where it joins Calle Granada, before the next square, known as Plaza del Carbón. Named after Spínola y Maestre, born in Cádiz, who was the Bishop of Málaga from 1886 to 1896. He died in Seville. He founded the religious order known as Congragación de las Esclavas Concepcionistas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, and was beatified in 1987.
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Carretería
This street was laid over the moat that surrounded the Moorish defensive wall, once it had been disendowed and covered over in the late 18th century. The name of the street comes from the fact that it was once a major thoroughfare for carriages and coaches, since other gateways and streets were too narrow for this purpose. It was the first ring-road in the city and provided access to the old quarter, as it continues to do today. In 1566, it was renamed San Francisco, after a Convent situated in a Plaza of the same name. As from 1840, it was known as Torrijos, a famous personage who passed along this street on his way to the firing squad. Number 74 is the headquarters of the Associación Hombres de Trono, founded in 1995.
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Pasillo de Santa Isabel
This passage dates back to the Moorish period and received its name following the Christian re-conquering of the region. It ran alongside the defensive wall. It is called a pasillo, or passage, because it used to be much narrower. It only became regarded as a street when the defensive wall was torn down in the late 18th century. In the 17th century, the area was just empty land, a place for gatherings and disorder. Therefore, a local resident founded a chapel next to the bridge, in which he placed a statue of Christ known as El Cristo del Perdón (Christ of Forgiveness). This name was later taken up by the Confraternity of Dolores del Puente. Before the district of Perchel was created, the 'perchas' (hangers) used for drying anchovies were located here.
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Calderería
After the Christians re-conquered the region, this street was the home to a Royal Division of the Guild of Boilermen ('Calderería' means 'Boiler Works') and, up until the 17th century, was also known as Caldereros (Boilermen) and Calderería Vieja (Old Boilerworks), occupying part of Calle Salada. In the early 20th century, it was temporarily called Calle de Jerónimo Cuervo, when it was home to the first public call centre of the 'Telefónica' company and two cinemas, 'Actualidades' and 'Goya'. The entrance to the 'Goya' cinema was located in Plazuela del Veedor, more popularly known as Plazuela del Olivo or Plazuela del Aceituno (Olive Tree Square) due to the fact that an olive tree had been planted there, when it was known as Salada (now Galerías Goya).
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Plaza de Arriola
During the Moorish period, a gateway was built in the defensive, known as Puerta del Río. After the Christians had re-conquered the region, it became known as Puerta de Santo Domingo, or Puerta de la Puente. Land was gradually reclaimed from the river and sea and the area became evermore developed. In the 16th century, the Arriola family apperaed on the scene (after whom the Plaza is named). They probably had a Manor house on this site or a service of some kind close to El Puente de Santo Domingo. The Plaza was first named Plaza de los Molinos, because of the gunpowder mills that were located here ('Molinos' means 'Mills'), whose explosions caused a great deal of damage to Las Atarazanas and other buildings in 1595 and 1618. In the 19th century, the Cuartel de Artillería (Artillery Barracks) was located here and needed the old defensive wall and two turrets to be removed as they were blocking the way. In 1842, a project was drawn up to build a marketplace, which, in turn, led to the gradual demilitarisation of the area. The market, known as Mercado Central, was opened in 1879, at which time the Plaza as we know it today was also created.
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Císter
This street has long been one of the main east-west thoroughfares, together with Santa María and Compañia. After the Christians re-conquered the region, it became known as Calle del Alcázar. It gets its present-day name from the Convent of Las Recoletas Bernardas del Cister, who arrived here in the 17th century. During the 19th and 20th centuries, many newspapers set up offices in this street, such as El Mediodía, Las Noticias, El Fénix, El Nuevo Fénix, La Bandera Liberal, El Porvenir Andaluz, La Unión Conservadora and El Último. At that time, the street was called Calle de Agustín Suárez de Figueroa. In 1928, houses adjoining the Cathedral were knocked down in order to widen the street and make way for gardens.
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Méndez Núñez
Named after a famous 19th century Spanish admiral, born in Vigo, who led many voyages to America, Fernando Poo and the Philippines. When he was Captain of the frigate Numancia, he formed part of a squadron that was sent to the Pacific region to smooth out relations with Peru and Chile. This street was built on land pertaining to the Convent of Nuestra Señora de Gracia (San Bernardo), which was torn down during the disendowment process of 1868. In 1893, a building known as La Casa de Baños del huerto del Marqués del Vado, or Baños de Ortiz, was demolished in order to extend the street up to Calle Tejón y Rodríguez.
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Puerta Nueva
This gateway was built in 1493 at the request of residents of Calle Guardas (now Calle Compañia) so that they could take their carts into the city, straight to Plaza de las Cuatro Calles (now Plaza de la Constitución). From 1488 onwards, the Peso de la Harina (building where cereal was weighed) was built here, where carts arrived loaded with wheat, barley, fruit and nuts (only via this gateway and the Granada gateway). As happened to other gateways, it was torn down in the 19th century, shortly before Spain was invaded by the French.
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Plaza del Carbón
So named since the Christian conquest and is believed to be connected to Calle Calderería ('Calderería' means 'Boiler Works'), as there used to be a coal yard that supplied the boiler works situated in this small plaza. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the plaza underwent various urban renewal schemes, along with Calle calderería and Calle Granada. It was once the site of a famous café, known as Café Inglés (the English Café), which took up half of the square. It was where the journalist Francisco García Paláez had a confrontation with Manuel Loring, Mayor of Málaga, who, as a result of which, subsequently died in nearby Plaza del Siglo. The plaza is currently being re-designed.
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Molina Lario
Named after José Molina Lario y Navarro, who became Bishop of Málaga in 1766. He proposed supplying drinking water to the city by constructing the Caudal y Acueducto de San Telmo (the San Telmo Water System and Aqueduct), which was in operation until recent times. He contracted the engineer Martín de Aldehuela to carry out this enormous project, which eventually supplied water for Málaga's previously unsupplied fountains and watering points via the Molinos de San Telmo (San Telmo Watermills). He was also behind the construction of a chapel, known as La Encarnación and located within the Cathedral, where his sepulchre is to be found. He also built one of the Cathedral's two organs and placed his coat-of-arms opposite them. He died in 1783, shortly before the aqueduct was officially opened.
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Plaza del Siglo
As with many such plazas, this plaza came about from the successive acts of disendowment and subsequent urban renewals carried out in Calle Granada from the mid-19th century onwards. It is named Plaza del Siglo (literally, Plaza of the Century, or Century Square) because of the (then) imminent arrival of the new (20th) century. In 1892, the City Council agreed to name it Plaza de Manuel Loring, in honour of a former Mayor of Málaga who died in this plaza. In 1926, it reverted back to its original name.
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San Agustín
Saint Augustine of Hipona was a theologian and philosopher born in Algeria in the 4th century. It takes its name from the church and convent of the Augustinian order, who settled here in 1575. It is possibly one of the most beautiful streets in Málaga, forming part of its old Jewish quarter. It provides pedestrian access to the Cathedral and Buenavista Palace (now the Picasso Museum), along with a Mosque and other notable buildings.
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Álamos
This street runs alongside Málaga's Medieval defensive wall. It dates back to the period when the Christians re-conquered the region and was designed as an access route between two of the gateways in the defensive wall: those known as de Granada and de Buenaventura. The Catholic Monarchs ordered the construction of a new marketplace, but only the street was ever completed. Poplars were planted along the pavement, hence its name 'Álamos' (Poplars). One side of the street was formed by the defensive wall and surrounding moat. In 1721, permission was granted to build over the moat so that the street would have pavements constructed on both sides. In 1892, it was agreed to name the street Alameda de Cánovas del Castillo, in memory of a local politician who played an important role in the redesigning of the port. The street was renamed Álamos in 1939.
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Torregorda
The name of this street, Torregorda (Big Tower), refers to a large circular tower that dominated the mouth of the Guadalmedina River along this stretch of the Moorish city walls. The gateway known as Puerta de los Gigantes (Giants' Gateway) stood here. It was bricked over following the great siege and re-opened in 1492. The Christian conquerors named both the tower and the gateway. They were demolished in the early 19th century. At that time, the Alameda (Avenue) only ran as far as this street, as San Lorenzo fort stood here, rising up between this street, the river and the beach, which then reached all the way up to this point. It is the only route available for traffic travelling north along the river. Today, it is a narrow access road to La Alameda Principal, making it part of the route for most Easter processions.
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Plaza de la Merced
Following the Christian conquest, this Plaza was the site of the city's marketplace. An inn provided accommodation for Muslims who had come to the city in search of work. It was later converted into Hospital de Santa Ana (now the site of two cinemas: Victoria and Astoria). To the northwest of the Plaza was the church and convent of Nuestra Señora de la Merced, built in 1507 by the Order of Los Mercedarios. It was extended in the 18th century, but was unfortunately destroyed by fire in 1931, along with many sculptures and religious images. In the 19th century, it was a popular place for the local bourgeoisie, where they would come to relax and enjoy themselves in their free time and it was known as Plaza de Riego in the 30's and had a central fountain. In 1842, a monolith was erected in honour of General Torrijos.
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Plaza de Uncibay
Named after the nobleman Fernando de Uncibay, captain of the Vizcaínos, who accompanied the Catholic Monarchs in the re-conquering of Málaga. In 1497, he was named Alderman of Málaga. He was also Mayor of Bezmiliana (Rincón de la Victoria). In the 19th century, the Plaza was the site of several incidents. In 1929, it was renamed Plaza de las Cortes de Cádiz. It has undergone various transformations, the most notable of which occurred in the late 20th century.
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