Malaga, Spain in 1572
View of the old Alcazaba
La Concepción, botanical and historical garden
marina
yacht in the marina
looking west down the coast
cathedral
Ferris wheel and government buildings
Bill and Georgena Stahl, Sonboon Higgs, Sandy Barnes, Isabel Sandez, Elaine Hein, Pat Nagy, Ingrid Yule, Judy Beck, JuanJo Perez, and Marilyn Zack
Sarah Kolb, Karen LeRoy, Cab Burgess, Bill Stahl, Sonboon Higgs, Sandy Barnes, Isabel Sandez, Elaine Hein, and Myrtha Saleme
El Faro (the lighthouse)
the tourism school that Juan-José Perez graduated from
Jacaranda tree in bloom
elegant houses on the top of the hill overlooking the marina
Panoramic view of Málaga from Gibralfaro
The Malagueta Bullring
view from the hill down past the Malagueta bullfighting ring to the Mediterranean
view down to the Mediterannean
marina
view westward along the Mediterannean coast
view eastward along the Mediterannean coast. the yellow beachside buildings may be our hotel, Meliã Costa del Sol
Jacaranda tree
statue of Pablo Picasso, who was born in Málaga in 1881 and lived there for 11 years before leaving for Barcelona and then to Paris
Jacaranda flowers
Judy Beck sits with Pablo Picasso
Cab Burgess sits with Pablo Picasso
Mickie Santina sits with Pablo Picasso
Howard Deckelbaum sits with Pablo Picasso
Georgena Stahl sits with Pablo Picasso
plaque commemorating the site of Pablo Picasso's father's pharmacy
Solomon ibn Gabirol (~1021-1060) was an 11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neo-Platonic bent who was born in Málaga
The Roman Theater
Roman Theater ruins
doors to the "students fraternity" warehousing floats for the saints' day processions
float for the saints' day processions
float for the saints' day processions
penitents hoods and robes which follow in the processional. The pointy hats were supposed to bring the penitents cloer to God. The costumes were much later adopted by the US's KKK
some of the ornate objects carried in the procession
more of the ornate objects carried in the procession
Student fraternity float for the saints' day processions
we group before going to the Picasso Museum
Going into the Picasso Museum
clouds over the Guadalmedina river